Book an Appointment
June 13, 2016

Corporations without a conscience: Tax cheats gorging themselves at the public trough

When Donald Trump screams his mantra, telling us he will “make America great again,” he’s right that we’re no longer great, he’s just clueless as to w

April 7, 2016

Healing hunger, poverty, war, climate change–with enlightened self-interest

Let me share a note from my friend Shel Horowitz, who co-authored two Guerrilla Marketing books with the legendary Jay Conrad Levinson. Shel is quite an interes

April 5, 2016

Fixing the Freest Marketplace Money Can Buy

This is an excerpt from my article originally posted on the Standford Social Innovation Review on 03/30/16 We live with an illusion so powerful that we endlessl

December 7, 2015

Let’s be Honest…

The Guardian recently posted an interactive dictionary of corporate values and terms to explore what words like ‘authentic’ and ‘green’ actually mean wh

July 14, 2015

We’ve Lost Our Moral Compass

This post first appeared in my new column Inspired Protagonist on Greenbiz.com. http://www.greenbiz.com/article/weve-lost-our-moral-compass Over the past sev

The Charitable-Industrial Complex
October 1, 2013

The Charitable-Industrial Complex

Several months ago I posted about “The Poverty-Creation Industry, so I was fascinated to see Peter Buffett’s (son of Warren Buffett) New York Times Op-Ed o

May 1, 2013

Business profits are an illusion, based on a slight of hand.

If business stopped externalizing its costs it would stop making money! I’m somewhat obsessed with the concept of “externalities” and its companion concep

April 17, 2013

HSBC Funds Suspected Terrorists and Gets a Slap on the Wrist

Have you heard about HSBC’s terrorist funding scandals? How about the many banks involved in LIBOR rigging, essentially playing games our money? If you’re a

February 15, 2013

For-profit Business Innovations impact tropical forest biodiversity

Guest Blog Post by Perzen Patel of Ennovent, a global organization that accelerates innovations for sustainability in low-income markets. Tropical forests are

January 17, 2013

The Relationship Between NGOs and Big Business

We’ve come a long way from the time when NGO leaders and businesses stood at opposite ends of the spectrum, with little collaboration or compromise.  Now, wi

January 3, 2013

Fair Trade sales increase rapidly despite economic downturn

The Ethical Consumerism Report 2010 was produced by The Co-operative Group, which has tracked shopping trends in the United Kingdom for more than a decade, foun

November 29, 2012

The most evil organization in the world

I’ve said it before, but this quote floored me. Never expected this much transparency from one of the world’s most opaque organizations, the US Chamber of C