TEDxPhilly - Jay Coen Gilbert - On better businesses

Jay Coen Gilbert shares his vision to harness the power of business to solve society's problems through B Corporations -- a new standard labeling socially and environmentally responsible companies. B Corps will help corporations be profitable while solving society's problems.

Coen Gilbert co-founded B Lab, an organization trying to solve social and environmental problems by relying on the power of B Corporations, businesses certified to have sustainable values.

http://bcorporation.net

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[HEYheyFEELdaLOVE]

Bag of Hippie Chips said Certified B Corporation. Wtf is that? Went to bcorporation website and then to this ted talk. I am VERY IMPRESSED with Jay and Bcorp. I think it is about direction and walking your talk. Jay knows his shit and is taking real action. Thank you for your efforts Jay and for educating me today. Peace

[sethmonroe65]

I don't want you to believe me do some research !

[Asko Kauppi]

I don't agree with you - and I ignore you. -1

[sethmonroe65]

We could achieve more if we all worked together in collaboration for all of mankind not for shareholders. We have the resources to feed everyone surely a resource based economy would be the way to go Imagine all of those shelved patents becoming available to mankind.Human harmony not some dystopian Orwellian nightmare that agenda 21 will become, how about Just peace love and abundance,based on scientific understanding and spiritual growth that's where we need to go so lets just go there!!

[sethmonroe65]

My thoughts are that it doesn't bring much to the party.What Jay doesn't mention is that this is all part of agenda 21 which is most certainly a trojan horse masquerading as sustainable development.

Its new world order stuff,when everything fails as it will do because

Capitalism doesn't cater for human needs it caters for wants it doesn't cure cancer it treats cancer it is based on greed and not collaboration and social equality it is a failed experiment that has relied on wars try peter Joseph

[Asko Kauppi]

Maybe you are right. I simply liked the message of Jay so I thought to pay attention to getting also the shooting right. Should I remove it?

[sethmonroe65]

Front Man for big business part 2 !!! SSDD

[sethmonroe65]

Please note that the incentives aren't for businesses with "humanitarian purpose," but rather "certified sustainable businesses." Those would be the public-private partnerships that are the cornerstone of the United Nations' Agenda 21 plan. Also, please note that B Lab is being approached by cities and Feds "about this work." What does that mean, that cities and Feds are approaching B Lab to see how they can hand out incentives?

[sethmonroe65]

Why bother with this post?

[Asko Kauppi]

Too bad the picture quality is somewhat blurry. No reason to see this in the bigger mode (well, we've probably been spoilt by all the HD content).