Word: thingness
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...kind of choices, the consumer choices that they make. The President: Well, as I said, the - I do think that young people - this next generation is much more aware of the consequences of what they buy, what they use, what they drive. And that's a wonderful thing. And our - all our individual choices, when you aggregate them, end up having a huge effect. And I think that this generation understands that more than our generation did and our parents' generation...
Service does that. It puts you in a set of conversations with people that you otherwise wouldn't talk to. One of the things that I loved most about the campaign was going to Iowa and going door to door and sitting at people's kitchens talking to them in small settings about life and sharing dreams and our stories. That's what service does. It's, you know, that's the indirect but very important outcome of community service is that it forces us out of our comfort zones and into one another's lives in a series...
...That's one reason Walmart's plan to standardize a sustainability index is so important. If companies are really improving their carbon footprint - and, one hopes, the way they treat their workers - in order to improve their image and engender consumer loyalty, isn't that a net good thing? And if they are doing it exclusively to help their bottom line, so what? "I don't care whether companies change for the love of the environment or because of their financial interest," says Geoffrey Heal, a Columbia Business School professor and the author of When Principles Pay. "The most sustainable...
...These days, some companies are cutting back on their philanthropy but less so on their CSR initiatives. The only thing that has sunk lower than the public's opinion of Congress during this recession is its opinion of business. Social responsibility is one way to get it back. Consumers too can make ethical choices. You may be stressed out by the economy, but your civic duty is starting to kick in at the cash register. Just don't let it end there. - With reporting by Jeremy Caplan...
...advantage of health-care reform, was taken aback. He looked to his left, adjusted his arm, part nervous twitch, part macho posturing, and shot back at Wilson, "That's not true." And there, for a moment, the nation watched two men, elected to lead, call each other the worst thing in politics - dishonorable deceivers. (See 10 players in health-care reform...