The new, evolved capitalism
By William Shutkin | Friday, July 27, 2007 | The Boston Globe
William Shutkin, a former foundation CEO and a trustee of Echoing Green, a funder of social entrepreneurs, uses carbon offsets as a lens to look through at the wider phenomenon of charity and for-benefit (rather than for-profit) business models. In his words, “…(Carbon) offsets are to carbon emissions what philanthropy has been to American capitalism — a convenient though indirect way of mitigating the undesirable effects of a system and way of life we are unwilling to change through more direct means….”…BS
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