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Tuesday Feb 28, 2006
Home Office surveys young people on antisocial behaviour
Per Community Newsire, funded by the Home Office's Active Community Unit, the Government has recently polled Britons about their perceptions of anti-social behaviour, all in preparation for their Respect campaign. Hopefully, we'll get a copy of the full report soon.
Apparently, the majority of young people polled are frustrated with the ASB perpetrated by a minority around them, though acknowledge that they are (negatively) steroetyped by the clothes they wear. And, "researchers also found those questioned are embracing traditional values, with many insisting that young people should respect their elders and calling for improved manners." That ties in very nicely with the Government's campaign, then.
Posted by Kirsten Olson ( 3:18 PM ) Link to this post Comments[0]Yet another list of sustainable corporations
Corporate Knights and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors have recently released a list of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World".
As a fundraiser I know how important it is that corporates are measured according to their impact on society and the world around them, not just how well they do for their shareholders.
What I find increasingly frustrating though is that as we try and make the business world more transparent by monitoring and tracking what they do, we often end up confusing the matter even more. Take this quote from Innovest about how they compiled the list:
"For the Global 100, Innovest selected 100 leaders from the MSCI World Index that demonstrate exceptional capacity to address their sector-specific environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities."
Maybe I'm being dense but I'm not sure what exactly that means, and I think if you stopped most people in the street and asked them they'd struggle as well.
If we're trying to get rid of the PR and smoke screens that businesses put up, then do we really want to replace them with yet more impenetrable layers?
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