Comments on: Corporate Responsibility Mondays http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/ irregularities and other absurdities Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:23:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CRM Summer Project: Socially Responsible Investing « Trying to follow CRM Summer Project: Socially Responsible Investing http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/comment-page-1/#comment-41270 CRM Summer Project: Socially Responsible Investing « Trying to follow CRM Summer Project: Socially Responsible Investing Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:02:40 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/#comment-41270 [...] Chocolate: Good: Equal Exchange Bad: Sara Lee [...] [...] Chocolate: Good: Equal Exchange Bad: Sara Lee [...]

]]> By: Ariah Fine http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/comment-page-1/#comment-25183 Ariah Fine Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:50:27 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/#comment-25183 Eric, Sorry my blog is blocked at your work. That's weird. Anyways, if you want I can try and subscribe you to the email posts so you can still get them... let me know Eric,

Sorry my blog is blocked at your work. That’s weird. Anyways, if you want I can try and subscribe you to the email posts so you can still get them…

let me know

]]> By: WorshipCity http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/comment-page-1/#comment-24457 WorshipCity Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:04:21 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/#comment-24457 I think this is interesting. I'm a new visitor so at first I was like, "what the heck is going on here?!? who cares about Sara Lee in the first....ahhh I see what's going on here!" I like the neg reviews/pos reviews. Although, I would certainly shop at Dunder Mifflin over the other sub par choices if I had the chance :) I think this is interesting. I’m a new visitor so at first I was like, “what the heck is going on here?!? who cares about Sara Lee in the first….ahhh I see what’s going on here!”
I like the neg reviews/pos reviews. Although, I would certainly shop at Dunder Mifflin over the other sub par choices if I had the chance :)

]]> By: Josh http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/comment-page-1/#comment-24400 Josh Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:14:09 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/#comment-24400 yeah. good thoughts eric. that's what ariah and i are doing each week. i'm doing a negative one. he's doing the positive one. and they are in the same industry. we've been doing that for all 4 weeks. i sort of bring to the surface the negative ones and he counters it by proposing an alternative in the same industry. it's really not that hard. it just takes a bit more time to be informed when spending. which i know is something that you and heather do . . . stay informed. but for most of us (including myself) we sort of just buy without thinking. some of just don't care. while the rest of us just don't want to put the time into it to be informed. or worse yet don't want to be inconvenienced. i just think when someone else is pulling an 80 hour work week for $40 so i can eat an apple pie . . . i should probably be inconvenienced enough to learn about that. yeah. good thoughts eric.

that’s what ariah and i are doing each week. i’m doing a negative one. he’s doing the positive one. and they are in the same industry. we’ve been doing that for all 4 weeks. i sort of bring to the surface the negative ones and he counters it by proposing an alternative in the same industry.

it’s really not that hard. it just takes a bit more time to be informed when spending. which i know is something that you and heather do . . . stay informed. but for most of us (including myself) we sort of just buy without thinking. some of just don’t care. while the rest of us just don’t want to put the time into it to be informed. or worse yet don’t want to be inconvenienced. i just think when someone else is pulling an 80 hour work week for $40 so i can eat an apple pie . . . i should probably be inconvenienced enough to learn about that.

]]> By: Eric http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/comment-page-1/#comment-24399 Eric Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:36:01 +0000 http://www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/2007/03/12/corporate-responsibility-mondays-4/#comment-24399 I think you should do positive companies too. Even every-other (2 positive, 2 negative/month would be excellent). It seems to me that if you actually want to cause change, your more likely to actually encourage companies to change by promoting socially responsible ones than you are to encourage company changes by shame-ing irresponsible ones. I mean, let's say OfficeMax is a great company, and Office Depot is horrible (fictional example). If you tell me Office Depot is 'deh sux', I could still goto staples, officemax, wal-mart (well, that's out, but work with me) or dunder-mifflin. .. so, more likely than not (1 in 4 shot), I won't do anything to vote with my wallet that promotes socially responsible companies, as I won't necessarily know OfficeMax is leet. Here's an alternative idea: why not pick an industry each week, and you do a negative one, and Ariah can do a positive one (you may do this, his blog is blocked at work but yours isn't, so hard for me to say)? I think you should do positive companies too. Even every-other (2 positive, 2 negative/month would be excellent).

It seems to me that if you actually want to cause change, your more likely to actually encourage companies to change by promoting socially responsible ones than you are to encourage company changes by shame-ing irresponsible ones.

I mean, let’s say OfficeMax is a great company, and Office Depot is horrible (fictional example). If you tell me Office Depot is ‘deh sux’, I could still goto staples, officemax, wal-mart (well, that’s out, but work with me) or dunder-mifflin. .. so, more likely than not (1 in 4 shot), I won’t do anything to vote with my wallet that promotes socially responsible companies, as I won’t necessarily know OfficeMax is leet.

Here’s an alternative idea: why not pick an industry each week, and you do a negative one, and Ariah can do a positive one (you may do this, his blog is blocked at work but yours isn’t, so hard for me to say)?

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