November 2007

• Where do Workplace Practices fit in the CSR picture?
• Job Posting: Light Up The World Foundation
• Fair Trade Week and the Waltown Movie
• Links of the Month

Where do Workplace Practices fit in the CSR picture?

Corporate Social Responsibility typically involves reporting on business performance related to various factors including charitable partnerships, environmental activities and workplace practices. Workplace practices describe how a business treats their employees and how are the lives of the employees benefiting by working at that business. The SPP is interested in exploring how people make socially-responsible purchasing decisions, and in particular, whether they base their decisions more on one factor or another. If you have an opinion or some insight into how you or others are making decisions to buy, please share with the SPP by email: info@sppcalgary.org.

Job Posting: Light Up The World Foundation

The Light Up The World Foundation brings ultra-efficient, durable and near permanent White Light Emitting Diodes (WLED) lighting solutions powered by renewable energy to the world's poor in ecologically sensitive and remote rural areas. They are currently seeking an Executive Director. More information can be found on their website at: LUTW.

Fair Trade Week and the Waltown Movie

The Centre for Public Interest Accounting at the University of Calgary is hosting Fair Trade Week 2007 from Nov 20-24. One Nov. 21st, Wal-Town is being shown at the Plaza Theatre, documenting a small group of student-activists who address their concerns in front of Wal-mart stores across Canada. More information can be found on their website at: Fair Trade Week 2007.

Links of the Month

• Global Reporting Initiative (www.globalreporting.org) is a framework that sets out the principles and indicators that organizations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance.
• CorpWatch (http://www.corpwatch.org) investigates corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world.

If you have good links to share, pass them along!

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