Do socially responsible companies perform better financially? Socially responsible investment commentator, Marjorie Kelly has been asking this big question for a long time and she thinks we can finally answer with a resounding YES.

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Bio-technology giant Monsanto is actively pursuing farmers who have saved seeds from last year’s crop to sow again this year. Under contracts of sale of Genetically Modified (GM) crops, many to resist Monsanto’s own broad-spectrum herbicide “Roundup”, farmers must buy each year’s seed from Monsanto rather than using the traditional method of saving seed for sowing next season.

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Rushmore Kidder, a respected observer and commentator on ethical issues, argues that the spectacular collapses in US corporations over the last few years may be traced to one of three types of lacks of ethical awareness: lethargy, ignorance and hypocrisy.

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The president of France, Jacques Chirac, unable to arrive because of the weather, still managed to address the members of the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in a virtual mode. The central point of his talk was that international solidarity was necessary for globalisation to be viable. This is an international moral challenge that faces nations, corporations and international organisations. By “moral”, M. Chirac means that collectively and collaboratively we must consciously, deliberately inject humanising values into globalisation.

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In a new book, Fortune Magazine author Marc Gunther writes on business, its higher purposes and its spiritually motivated people.

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Many people have raised concerns about genetically modified (GM) foods and organisms. Others have pointed to the benefits that they offer, arguing that genetic selection has been the goal of all breeding programs that human beings have been conducting for thousands of years.
John Sweeney

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