Steve Scher
03/27/2012 at 10:00 a.m.
Social Purpose Corporations: A new Washington state law establishes a new kind of business, a Social Purpose Corporation. It allows corporations to legally go beyond maximizing shareholder profits to establish broader goals. It also establishes procedures for greater transparency to monitor against greenwashing. Is this more than symbolic? Could this inspire socially responsible entrepreneurs into action, or shape long term corporate thinking? We will talk with Bruce Herbert, who helped promote the new law.
Greendays Gardening Panel: Pledge Drive Edition! It’s a pledge drive edition of the Greendays gardening panel. Do you value them as a resource? Let them know by pledging your support to all the programming on KUOW. Call the pledge line at 206.543.9595. We’ll also answer your gardening questions at 1.800.289.KUOW (5869).
Guest(s)
Bruce Herbert is with Newground Social Investment.
Marty Wingate writes about gardens and travel. You can find her works at martywingate.com. Her book is “Landscaping for Privacy.”
Greg Rabourn is the Vashon basin steward and works on habitat restoration and salmon recovery on Vashon and Maury Islands. He also helps landowners in the Raging River and Patterson Creek watershed solve landscape problems sustainably. You can see him as cohost of King County TV’s “Yard Talk.”
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