OK, we've all learned that "at the end of the day" starting a business requires funding. Which is why we buy into the notion of "Social capitalism".

I usually don't give a sustainability report much of a plug here, but this might be worthwhile mentioning: Henkel not only receives regular laurels within the German CSR-community for their reporting, but does so as well internationally now, see their

• At UN: Google and Censorship
  Is Google a member of Global Compact? If you're a news agency and ask this question, will you get delisted from their news service? A technical glitch, of course, corrected a few days later.... btw: they are not a member.

• Shell calls for government intervention over climate change
  Companies calling for regulation - and breaking the gridlock on regulation vs voluntarism. I remember a letter to Tony Blair from CEOs, including Shell's, in 2005 on this issue. Anyone surprised why it takes government so long to act?
  (tags: lobbying climate change)

Recent statistics point out that approx 1.3 billion people have access to the internet.

• Responding: Are social networks good for society?
  ... why do we always want to migrate to the next level?
  (tags: social tech)
   
• Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - New York Times Blog

• The Economic, Ethical and Cultural Effects of International Outsourcing
  (tags: India supply chain ethics economics and development)

• Why Kosovo's independence bid is unique

It's all very well that most companies by now claim to report along the guidelines of GRI. However, even the ones that indeed do so (there are a few hundreds that only claim but are not approved) seem to get some problems with this.