Latest Corporate Responsibility Stories

5 Kinds of Gifts that Give Back Five ways you can give twice every time with gift ideas that give back. Resources, links and ideas for how you can support social and environmental causes and make a difference in the world with gifts that mean more.

From Living on the Street to Earning a Living Wage: Fair Trade at Work in Hanoi Phan had never dared to dream of the stability promised by fair trade job. But when he became an artisan in Hanoi's Kids & Stone workshop, life began to change. Read how he went from living on the street to earning a living wage.

How Fair Trade Turned Life Around for a Family in India A story of one woman artisan who's among the extraordinary survivors across Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and India, where livable wages from fair trade work offer a way out of the cycle of poverty.

Gaiam Commits to 'Green Sleeves': Plastic-Free DVD Packaging Good things come in green packages — and now that includes DVDs. Gaiam has moved to green the DVD market, introducing groundbreaking new eco-packaging for Gaiam DVD titles. In place of those familiar plastic DVD cases, Gaiam is converting to 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper and 100 percent recyclable materials.

5 Fair Trade FAQs + Buying Guide A 101 on what makes something fair trade, and how to shop smart to ensure that the person who created that fabulous product is receiving a fair wage in return.

3 Ways to Slash Your Trash: Zero Waste Is Recycling 2.0 Zero waste programs are taking hold around the world, helping communities reuse, recycle, compost or avoid nearly all materials that otherwise go into landfills. Here's how you can go zero waste at home.

Making Cotton, Doing Good A family-owned business, this manufacturer uses pure organic cotton, makes its own nonpolluting hydroelectricity, and gives a portion of all proceeds to the World Wildlife Fund.

Communities Win with Fair Trade: 3 Stories Three artisan groups, worlds away from each other, are earning fair wages, rebuilding sustainable livelihoods for their families and communities, and reviving traditional local handcraft skills. The story behind three programs that supply a few of Gaiam's artisan-made and fair trade offerings, from clothing to quilts to unique contemporary iron bathroom fixtures.

Gaiam Lightens Its Paper Trail on the Planet Switching to recycled paper conserves vast amounts of natural resources, from wood to energy to water, and reduces CO2 emissions and solid waste production by hundreds of thousands of tons. Gaiam uses recycled paper containing a minimum of 20% post-consumer waste (30% beginning with its summer 2007 catalogs) and sources its catalog paper from a paper company ranked as the most sustainable in America and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world.

Go Zero: One Simple Way Anyone Can Help Stop Global Warming Feeling overwhelmed in the fight against global warming? This innovative carbon-offset program by Gaiam and The Conservation Fund makes you part of the solution.

Organic Farming Changes Everything for a Community in India After adopting organic farming practices, a rural community in India sees higher crop yields, lower growing costs and fewer health issues.