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Companies can make a change. Every day more responsible businesses are set up. Enterprises who care about their workers, the environment and the communities where they work. They can give an example and show that there is a market for fair products. If a company takes one step, it does not mean that its whole business is OK. But one step for a big company can already have a huge impact for workers or small farmers who are dependent of this company.

We all play an important role in this development as consumers. When we are in the supermarket we can select more responsible products. We can also ask the owner of the shop where the products come from. Price and quality of a product is not the only criteria to chose, so are social and envirnomental criteria. A recent topic for discussion is food miles. How far does your food have to travel? How much pollution?

Complicated choices in the supermarket. In this area I want to give some concrete examples of businesses in change. If you type in Corporate Social Responsibility in Google, you get more than 40 million hits. With this site I want to filter interesting cases in several areas:

Inspired Business: care for inside and outside 

Business and creativitity: open your horizon

Choices for consumers

CSR websites and books

Contacts 

on migrants and human rights In Houston, USA

Francisco Arguelles Paz y Puente , born in Mexico, has lived in the U.S. since 1997. He is a co-author of BRIDGE: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy. From 2000-2003, he served as the organizer for the Immigrant Community Organizer Working Group (ICO) of the National Organizers's Alliance, and is currently a board member of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. He began his work as a popular educator in 1983 with Guatemalan refugees in Chiapas. He has organized and taught popular education extensively in throughout Mexico, Nicaragua, and the U.S. for the past 20 years.