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Announcements
December 7, 2005
Change
the Dialogue! What is this $10,000 Prize REALLY Worth?
Sustainable Ventures is offering a $10,000 prize for the study that best measures the true costs of a loaf of bread. The winning study will provide a framework to measure the social, environmental and financial performance and be adapted to other product areas. “By revealing the hidden costs of a loaf of bread …the selected framework with provide a metrics to help people make more informed choices to protect and restore the world,” according to the plan’s architect Theodosia Ferguson.
“We want to engage people in the conversation of what constitutes living sustainably? The competition offers people the opportunity to shift the dialogue towards a sustainable future.”
Visit
Sustainable Ventures for details.
CABN Members: Show Your Green Business Seal of Approval This Holiday Season
Now
it’s easier than ever to display your commitment to people
and the planet.
The Seal of Approval is for use exclusively by Co-op America's Green Business Network™ members. "The seal is the perfect way to show the world that Co-op America businesses have made a commitment to people and the planet. Working together, green businesses across the country are changing the way people shop, save, and invest," says CABN director Denise Hamler.
Please let us know how you are using the seal »
See how one business is using the seal here »
New
Values-Based Online
Ad Network Launched
This new service helps advertisers and publishers reach your targeted markets. Perry Goldschein, founder, has been a leader in innovative web-based advertising. To join other values-based organizations for the beta launch and receive access to publishers database and discounted ad space contact them.
Visit: www.GreenAds.com, info@greenads.com
Resources for Supporting
Hurricane Katrina Victims
Many of our members are lending vital resources to the relief efforts
in the wake of the two hurricanes.
We have included information from organizations that we work with
through our programs—from Fair Trade to Community Investing.
- Network for Good is acting as a clearinghouse
for a number of philanthropic organizations raising relief funds
for victims
http://www.networkforgood.org/ - Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit
Union
ECD is one of the nation's leading Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). Through the ECD Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union (ECD/HOPE) is participating in the immediate and the long-term storm recovery efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi.
http://www.ecd.org - Baton Rouge Area Foundation
http://www.braf.org/ - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
http://www.elca.org/disaster - Catholic Charities
http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org - Presbyterian Disaster Relief
http://www.pcusa.org - American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org - Salvation Army
http://www.salvationarmy.org - New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
http://www.habitat-nola.org - Unitarian Universalist Assocation of Congregations /
Gulf Coast Relief Fund
http://www.uua.org - Oxfam America
While Oxfam normally focuses their efforts overseas, they have set up a special fund to help farmers and fishermen in the Delta region who have been badly hit by the hurricane.
https://secure.ga3.org/02/katrina_fund