(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) – Northampton, MA – January 27, 2010 – 3BL Media, the experts in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and cause marketing communications, today announced plans to launch 3BL TV (Triple Bottom Line TV), a Web video channel scheduled to debut next month. At the core of the channel’s programming will be regular video segments produced by Christine Arena, Chris Jarvis, and Fabian Pattberg, who are recognized as the most respected and widely read bloggers covering topics related to CSR and sustainability.
“3BL Media’s initial foray into Web video, the CSR Minute, is now recognized as the leading daily Webcast for CSR news and information,” said Greg Schneider, co-founder and CEO, 3BL Media. “With the launch of 3BL TV, we are building on that success and increasing our reach as a media company at the intersection of CSR, social media and web video.”
Programming on 3BL TV will include:
theCSRminute – a daily video digest of CSR and sustainability news
theCSRreport – an in-depth look at the CSR world via company profiles and interviews.
CSRunscripted – personal essays featuring viewpoints, opinions, and insights.
About the Featured Contributors:
Christine Arena – corporate strategist, syndicated blogger, and award-winning author whose books include The High-Purpose Company: The Truly Responsible (and Highly Profitable) Firms That Are Changing Business Now (Collins, 2007), and Cause for Success: 10 Companies that Put Profit Second and Came in First (New World Library, 2004). Christine’s “Case in Point” blog, which separates the strategies and companies that make a positive difference from those that don’t, is currently published on a number of major business news websites.
Chris Jarvis – keynote speaker, consultant, and author of the Realizing Your Worth blog that focuses on CSR and corporate volunteering. In working with business and non-profits to create outstanding volunteer programs, Chris presents examples and practices that create value for companies while providing important benefits to the community.
Fabian Pattberg – a sustainability, CSR, and social media professional with many years experience whose expertise includes managing the production of multiple sustainability/CSR reports; planning and coordination of stakeholder engagement campaigns; advising companies on their CSR strategy/ implementation; and the use of social media for companies to promote their sustainability credentials.
”I’m excited to be working with Christine, Chris, and Fabian,” said John Howell, Editorial Director, 3BL Media. “Their experienced, authoritative voices brought to Web video on 3BL TV will allow 3BL Media to further support our mission of raising awareness for the importance of corporate responsibility. This venture brings our viewers and readers beyond the CSR Minute’s headlines, to in-depth profiles and interviews, opinion, and analysis.”
About 3BL Media 3BL Media is the leading CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), sustainability, and cause marketing communications company. The company’s experienced team of professionals helps organizations—from nonprofits to multinational corporations—have a positive influence on society and the environment through information sharing that leverages the most cutting-edge technology and social media. 3BL Media defines, builds and refines the tools and methods necessary to help organizations communicate their commitment to the Triple Bottom Line in the way stakeholders want and need to know. For additional information, please visit:
We caught up with fair-trade jewelry pioneer, Kimarie Burnette of Kimarie Designs to learn more about what inspires her and why she uses fair-trade labor from Bali.
1. How did you get started in making jewelry?
I traveled to Bali and fell in love with the art and the people.
2. Sustainability in the jewelry sector is pretty rare, what inspired you to go fair-trade?
My friend told me people were dying refining metal in Indonesia because of the toxic chemicals, we then set about learning how to refine our own metal and establish best practices.
3. What one thing would you like all jewelry shoppers to know about traditional jewelry?
I’d like people to know that jewelry making in Bali is a centuries old tradition that is handed down from generation to generation. All our jewelry is hand fabricated with a lot of love.
4. Who are you outside of the founder and designer of Kimarie Designs?
A mom and wife and big fan of sushi.
5. Who would you be most thrilled to know is wearing your jewelry?
My friends.
6. What is the experience of working in Bali like?
Working in Bali has been amazing. My goldsmiths now our the kids of my previous set of goldsmiths that are retired and fishing now. It has been wonderful to see them grow up get married and now have to enter “the real world” have a job raise kids etc. My aesthetic and constitution seems to fit Bali like a glove. I love the organic wild and at the same time laid back and very fatalistic tones of their culture. I am able to understand it and work within it very well.
The number of companies delisted since 2008 for repeated failure to meet the UN Global Compact’s mandatory annual reporting requirement, also known as the Communication on Progress (COP) policy, has now passed 1,000.
As part of the announcement, the Global Compact Office also released a full listing of the 1,005 companies delisted as of 6 October.
Businesses in the Global Compact are required to report annually on progress made in the implementation of the initiative’s ten principles covering human rights, workplace standards, the environment, and anti-corruption. Failure to submit a COP to the public Global Compact database within one year of joining the Global Compact results in a change of a company’s status. Consecutive failures to submit a COP leads to removal (delisting) of the company.
Despite the number of delistings, the Global Compact continues to grow at a rate of roughly 100 new participants per month, with the current total of active business and non-business participants standing at over 7,000 organizations in more than 135 countries.
The COP policy was introduced in 2005 to ensure transparency and public accountability of the business commitment, drive continuous performance improvement, safeguard the integrity of the Global Compact as a whole and contribute to the development of a repository of corporate practices.
The now more than 1,000 delisted companies include both small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and larger companies, and are also proportionally represented among industry sectors and countries in the Global Compact – indicating that the COP framework is equally relevant across business size, sector and geographic region.
“Over the years, the Global Compact’s framework has become increasingly robust, through the establishment of integrity measures, introduction of guidance materials, and the support of the many local networks that provide COP mentoring,” said Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. “By all indications, we expect corporate disclosure of policies and practices to become more common, as companies joining the Global Compact increasingly enter with a better understanding of the critical value of reporting on environmental, social and governance performance.”
While delisted companies are removed entirely from the Global Compact’s public database, the initiative allows companies to return to active status. To officially rejoin the Global Compact companies must provide a new commitment from the chief executive officer addressed to the UN Secretary-General and submit a COP to the public database.
Emma Watson’s ethical fashion collection for People Tree. Photograph: Cantata/People Tree
Emma Watson, the actor best known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, is to release a clothing collection in collaboration with the ethical fashion label People Tree.
The collection for People Tree is aimed at bringing fair trade and organic fashion to the 16-24 age group. Watson is acting as creative advisor, injecting her personal style into the range.
“I was excited by the idea of using fashion as a tool to alleviate poverty and knew it was something I could help make a difference with,” she said.
“I think young people like me are becoming increasingly aware of the humanitarian and environmental issues surrounding fast fashion and want to make good choices but there aren’t many options out there.”
The People Tree line, comprising 26 women’s styles and 15 for men, plus a small accessories range, will enter stores in late February 2010. The collection, which includes knitwear, cotton T-shirts, jersey dresses, poplin skirts and shorts, is described by People Tree as “clean, sexy and easy to wear”.
Much of the range uses organic and fairly traded cotton. The clothes are made entirely by hand by fair trade groups using weaving, knitting and embroidery, helping to create livelihoods for disadvantaged groups in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
The collection will be available at People Tree concessions and online. For more details, visit peopletree.co.uk.
via guardian.co.uk
3BL Media Announces Launch of 3BL TV, Featuring Web Video Content from CSR’s Most Influential Bloggers – Christine Arena, Chris Jarvis, and Fabian Pattberg | 3BL Media
(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) – Northampton, MA – January 27, 2010 – 3BL Media, the experts in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and cause marketing communications, today announced plans to launch 3BL TV (Triple Bottom Line TV), a Web video channel scheduled to debut next month. At the core of the channel’s programming will be regular video segments produced by Christine Arena, Chris Jarvis, and Fabian Pattberg, who are recognized as the most respected and widely read bloggers covering topics related to CSR and sustainability.
“3BL Media’s initial foray into Web video, the CSR Minute, is now recognized as the leading daily Webcast for CSR news and information,” said Greg Schneider, co-founder and CEO, 3BL Media. “With the launch of 3BL TV, we are building on that success and increasing our reach as a media company at the intersection of CSR, social media and web video.”
Programming on 3BL TV will include:
theCSRminute – a daily video digest of CSR and sustainability news
theCSRreport – an in-depth look at the CSR world via company profiles and interviews.
CSRunscripted – personal essays featuring viewpoints, opinions, and insights.
About the Featured Contributors:
Christine Arena – corporate strategist, syndicated blogger, and award-winning author whose books include The High-Purpose Company: The Truly Responsible (and Highly Profitable) Firms That Are Changing Business Now (Collins, 2007), and Cause for Success: 10 Companies that Put Profit Second and Came in First (New World Library, 2004). Christine’s “Case in Point” blog, which separates the strategies and companies that make a positive difference from those that don’t, is currently published on a number of major business news websites.
Chris Jarvis – keynote speaker, consultant, and author of the Realizing Your Worth blog that focuses on CSR and corporate volunteering. In working with business and non-profits to create outstanding volunteer programs, Chris presents examples and practices that create value for companies while providing important benefits to the community.
Fabian Pattberg – a sustainability, CSR, and social media professional with many years experience whose expertise includes managing the production of multiple sustainability/CSR reports; planning and coordination of stakeholder engagement campaigns; advising companies on their CSR strategy/ implementation; and the use of social media for companies to promote their sustainability credentials.
”I’m excited to be working with Christine, Chris, and Fabian,” said John Howell, Editorial Director, 3BL Media. “Their experienced, authoritative voices brought to Web video on 3BL TV will allow 3BL Media to further support our mission of raising awareness for the importance of corporate responsibility. This venture brings our viewers and readers beyond the CSR Minute’s headlines, to in-depth profiles and interviews, opinion, and analysis.”
About 3BL Media
3BL Media is the leading CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), sustainability, and cause marketing communications company. The company’s experienced team of professionals helps organizations—from nonprofits to multinational corporations—have a positive influence on society and the environment through information sharing that leverages the most cutting-edge technology and social media. 3BL Media defines, builds and refines the tools and methods necessary to help organizations communicate their commitment to the Triple Bottom Line in the way stakeholders want and need to know. For additional information, please visit:
http://3blmedia.com
http://twitter.com/3BLMedia
http://facebook.3blmedia.com
http://linkedin.3blmedia.com
Press Contact:
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Schwartz Public Relations
steven@schwartzpr.com
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