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Leading the Way In Sustainability

16:06 minutes (3.69 MB)
Michael Connor speaks with Jeff Mendelsohn, founder and CEO of New Leaf Paper, a pioneering San Francisco-based paper company started in 1998 with the mission of leading the paper industry toward sustainability. Since then, according to the company, its customers have saved more than one million trees by using New Leaf products.


Charity Starts At Home

15:47 minutes (3.62 MB)
Hear about a Virginia-based consulting company with a unique twist to its business model: it gives ALL its profits away to non-profit organizations. Michael Pirron, CEO of Impact Makers, says it’s an exciting new way to do business. Find out why.


A Work-Life Balancing Act

15:53 minutes (3.64 MB)
A new survey finds that flexibility in work is important to Americans, so much so that 60 percent of them think it should be an issue addressed by the next president of the United States. Cali Williams Yost, president of Work + Life Fit, offers suggestions on how to balance work and life.


Patty Calkins of Xerox

13:48 minutes (3.16 MB)
Patty Calkins, the top environmental executive for the Xerox Corporation, discusses the company’s success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and a commitment to up its goal by more than 100 percent.


Corporate Fraud, Excess and Greed

19:14 minutes (4.41 MB)
Walter Pavlo’s story has the makings of a novel--but it’s all true. As an executive at MCI, one of the largest telephone companies in the world, he embezzled $6 million. How did he pull it off? Why? And was it worth going to prison for two years? In this interview Walter Pavlo provides details of his story of fraud, excess and greed.


Some “Good” Reading

20:02 minutes (4.59 MB)
"A magazine for people who give a damn"--that’s the tag line of GOOD, a multimedia publication which targets people who want to change the world. It even gives away its subscription revenue to non-profit groups. Michael Connor speaks with GOOD’s Editor and Publisher, Max Schorr.


Trusting the Source

19:55 minutes (4.58 MB)
How do you know the sweater your child is wearing wasn’t made by child labor in an Asian sweatshop? As business goes more global, it’s difficult for companies to track how their products are made in far-off lands. Michael Connor speaks with Dan Viederman, Executive Director of Verité, an independent, non-profit organization working to ensure safe, fair and legal working conditions in more t


A Green Report Card

19:55 minutes (4.56 MB)
Sustainability is a hot topic on college campuses these days as students look to business and companies to clean up their act. But colleges and universities are big business too.  How are they doing on their sustainability report cards? Interesting results were recently derived from a report which ranks major colleges and universities across America and Canada.


Corporate Citizenship 2007

19:26 minutes (4.45 MB)
A new survey finds American companies believe “doing good” for their employees, customers, and communities will enhance their firm’s reputation and long-term business success.


Stop, Thief!

19:13 minutes (4.4 MB)
With all the attention focused on corporate fraud in the last few years, you’d think the bad guys would know better. But that’s not the case.

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