Welcome!
The purpose of this blog is to add to the growing conversation around socially responsible business. Around the web, activists and concerned citizens are constantly pointing out how businesses – through worker exploitation and environmental destruction – too often ignore their responsibility to society beyond providing a product or service that people will buy.
Our company, Ethix Ventures, is a team of activists who have come together to launch an experiment: can you change business from the inside, out?
Certainly, it is important to advocate for regulations, law enforcement, monitoring and boycotts of the worst actors in our economy – the giants of industry who have made a killing by making their workers sweat and by spoiling the air and waterways. Our close allies at ILRF and Sweatfree Communities are vigilant in attacking the problem from this angle.
Some of us will also need to climb into the trenches of the marketplace and painstakingly craft an alternative business model, and that's where we come in.
