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Why save unethical banks?

November 22, 2010 – 11:39 am by Phil Entwistle

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I’m feeling angry about Ireland and the bail-out. No-one seems to be asking the banks to pay for their mess. Surely it would be better to let them fail, instead of giving them the chance to do it again. Perhaps then we’d get some banks whose ethics more nearly matched those of most of their [...]

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A Quaker approach to investments and the right use of money: Robert Howell

April 30, 2010 – 10:21 am by suzannei

1.30 pm on Monday 17 May at Quaker Centre, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ The first in a series of Quaker Peace & Social Witness daytime talks in the Quaker Centre The international finance system has failed in a basic function: to obtain money from investors and to channel it to those [...]

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Investing in Climate Change? Take Action on Tar Sands!

March 29, 2010 – 5:12 pm by suzannei

Your pension could be invested in some of the planet’s most controversial oil projects.  Here is an opportunity to do something about it.  At their 2010 Annual General Meetings (AGMs) in April and May, oil companies BP and Shell will face special resolutions at which shareholders will challenge their Alberta tar sands projects…  Critics say [...]

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Rethinking Ethical Investment in Turbulent Times: Launch of the ECCR London & SE Group- 19 May 2010, 5.30 – 7.00 p.m Central London

March 29, 2010 – 2:58 pm by suzannei

Mount Street Jesuit Centre, 114 Mount Street, London W1K 3AH The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) is launching a new local group for London & the South East.  As a corporate member of ECCR, Quaker Peace & Social Witness is encouraging Friends who are interested in corporate responsibility & ethical investment issues to attend [...]

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you and yours

November 3, 2009 – 5:25 pm by cyn

there was an interesting discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on You and Yours today (Tuesday 3rd Nov) -it gave an idea of the parameters of the debate as far as it has got to on the BBC! – available on listen again.

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