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When Making Money and Making a Sustainable and Societal Difference Collide: Will Benefit Corporations Succeed or Fail?
Get PDFA quiet, but important, corporate revolution is afoot in the United States. Many of us, laypersons and corporate scholars alike, have not even noticed. Recently, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. became the first states in this country to pass legislation for the creation of a new type of corporation--the benefit corporation.
This Article explores benefit corporations as a tool entrepreneurs can use to make money, foster environmental sustainability, and create societal improvement
Corporate Responsibility and Climate Justice: A Proposal for a Polluter-financed Relocation Fund for Federally Recognized Tribes Imperiled by Climate Change
Get PDFClimate change threatens to displace as many as 200 million people internally and across national borders by the middle of the twenty-first century. Indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable to these changes. With the loss of their village rapidly approaching, the residents of the Native Village of Kivalina are captives in their homeland bracing for disaster because they do not have the millions of dollars needed to relocate and there is no government fund or process in place to provide them with adequate assistance.
Part I of this article describes the factual context of the Kivalina litigation and how the disappointing outcome in the Ninth Circuit\u27s decision in this case sets the stage for the need for a climate change relocation fund. Part II examines existing sources of federal authority for relocation under U.S. law and how they could serve as a conceptual foundation for a climate change relocation fund. Part III considers comparative law perspectives on proactive relocation responses to impending natural disasters and the use of private sector financed climate change adaptation funds. Part IV proposes possible models for a climate change relocation fund in the United States and recommends that the availability of the fund be limited to federally recognized tribes
Energy Security, Green Fleets, and Green Warriors
Get PDFThe U.S. military, both our nation\u27s largest consumer and securer of energy, can no longer be absolved of the high costs and environmental consequences of its reliance on conventional fuel sources and energy systems in the face of mounting evidence of unavoidable global warming and climate change. The oil-dependent U.S. national and energy security policies that have helped achieved American military and economic greatness are no longer sustainable; in fact, uncovering the hidden costs of our oil addiction reveals many insecurities. In order to progress towards true energy independence, the U.S. must overcome its congressional in-fighting, and kick-start its promising array of green technology and clean energy systems. Military-public collaborations with the private sector have the potential to advance the clean energy market at a low cost to all actors. They also promise to improve military environmental policies, thereby introducing cross-sector, multi-beneficial green-technology into the civilian marketplace and contributing to national education and outreach programs. Shedding our oil addiction will assure that a new era of green warriors, fleets, and convoys will survive, and perhaps, thrive in a future of climate change, adaptation, and mitigation
Thirsty for a Solution: Using the Rural Electrification Administration Model to Resolve the Failure of Privatization of Water Utilities in Bolivia
Get PDFAn Evening with Bishop C. Holifield, Esq. & Dr. Frederick S. Humphries (Playlist, Parts 01-11)
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The “Friend”ly Lawyer: Professionalism and Ethical Considerations of the Use of Social Networking During Litigation
Get PDFSocial media use has exploded around the world. The top social networking site (SNS), Facebook, reports that it has more than a billion members with approximately two million friend requests every twenty minutes. Coupled with the other top 15 social networking sites, including Linkedln, Google+, Twitter, and MySpace, the number of social networking users is estimated to exceed 2 billion. With billions of people producing and consuming media content through SNS, there has been a growing trend of law firms\u27 use of SNS as a marketing tool and litigators\u27 inclusion of discovery from SNS as a part of their discovery protocol. The rapid growth of SNS have enabled large numbers of users to instantly create and share content and has simultaneously unveiled concerns regarding the ethical and professional liabilities of attorneys participating in such SNS
News in Cyberspace: The Creation of the New Ignorance
Get PDFComputers are dummying us down. Book learning has given way to computer speak. Modern technology overwhelms us. Users are enthralled with gadgets to the point where they have lost themselves in them. We have abandoned, perhaps mislaid, our sense for ignorance; what it means to be illiterate in the 21st century; and working definitions for truth. In this environment a dab of education (enough to make somebody lethal), a sprinkle of bigotry, and fear produce people with ideas that are bad for us. This essay cautions against trucking with those folk; it marks what they do in the media that is unhealthy for us; and fixes what\u27s broken in information dispensaries (e. g., broadcasting, film and blogs) so future users won\u27t have to bother with this stuff