Sustainability, social progress, health and well-being: all important considerations in the way we live our lives and run our businesses, and all ignored by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As an alternative, we need a measurement that more accurately reflects the complex realities of our global economies and takes into account all that we value for well-being and success. A growing number of people worldwide are calling this concept “Gross National Happiness”. » » » »

In this age of shared responsibility, and with the ease of access to information gathered and shared both online and offline, it’s no surprise to see the public stepping up to provide innovative and unique socially responsible solutions. Crowd sourcing, a trend of leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies to achieve goals, has become quite a social networking tool that is helping to provide socially responsible solutions to many of society’s problems and restore health to many as a result. » » » »

United We Can, a Vancouver (BC) based non-profit, isn’t the stereotypical social responsibility enterprise. The organization has uniquely tied recycling collection (and the financial value of redemption) to helping to alleviate poverty and homelessness for its employees. How do they do it? » » » »

On occasion, Healthy Living Marketing runs across a socially responsible organization that offers so much innovation and appeal that we are forever taken with their mission. Back On My Feet is one of those rare organizations that not only gives with its heart, but with its “soles” as well. » » » »

There’s a responsibility movement underway in Atlanta.

Discovering that the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau had lost a competitive bid to Orlando for a conference because Atlanta didn’t have an environmental program in place, business leaders and residents several years ago decided to embrace environmental sustainability as a core practice in their planning and programming. This commitment eventually organized around a new initiative, The Zero Waste Zone (ZWZ) in downtown Atlanta. » » » »