We have updated the Listopica website, adding new pages to help you understand more specifically what we are up to, especially since we have launched a number of new businesses and brands this year.

You can see an overview of our brands with detailed descriptions for each one.

And we freshened up the descriptions in some of the other areas with new coats of paint.

As always, feel free to contact us if you need more information or have questions. We’ll be delighted to talk with you.

A Socially Conscious Idea

I have a friend who works for a large corporation. She told me how her company pays her to volunteer for socially responsible programs. She volunteers for a program called Criminon, which rehabilitates prison inmates by helping them get their self-respect back. The inmates become students on extension courses that my friend then grades and sends back with any corrections or validations for completions.

The company she works for pays her to do this good deed. As long as the non-profit organization is on the company’s list, employees can be paid by the company to do “volunteer work.”

What a great idea!!

What do you think?

Have a socially conscious cup of coffee.

We have heard of fair trade coffee – in every coffee shop, including Starbucks, known to coffee drinkers.

How about Socially Conscious Coffee? The first private initiative focuses on coffee farm laborers and harvesters, providing education, health care, nutrition and other programs and services to the neediest people in the world of coffee — coffee harvesters and their families?

Marcos, who is 7 years old in Kindergarten, lives with his parents. Before he began SCC school, he had difficulty learning and playing games with other children. In a couple of months, he improved a great deal. He can now read and interacts well with other classmates. He even put meat on his thin, frail body due to regular meals through SCC.

There are numerous stories about children like Marcos who through SCC became educated and healthy. So, remember to get a cup of java from companies that support SCC.

Java Jacket, the company that makes those cooling sleeves for that hot cup of java, Robinson Dairy, Stone Creek Roasters, Café Richesse and Borders Premium Coffee are some of the coffee related companies supporting SCC.

Next time you have a cup of coffee – check to see if it is socially conscious.

Doughing a Social Conscious Business

CNN published an article about creating a social change and a real business at the same time.

It’s a great story about thinking fast on your feet while helping others in need.

Alicia Polak, a Wall Street investment banker, studied for her MBA in South Africa. She was struck by the poor townships around Cape Town. She thought of a wonderful opportunity to help the impoverish people while building a business.

In the first 6 months, Polak spent about $10,000 of her own money. She worked hard and contracted several big clients. Her company, Khayelitsha Cookie Co., employs 10 women from the township of the same name. They bake cookies and brownies and sell them to cafes, hotels and a domestic airline. The company is only two years old but on the threshold of breaking into the U. S. market.

What is awesome is that Polak is helping people develop skills in a very poor area. Therefore, they can support their families.

We need more socially responsible entrepreneurs like Polak for a better future worldwide.

How Good Is Being Socially Responsibility

“What’s good for business must also be good for the environment and for people worldwide,” says Dawn Rittenhouse, DuPont’s director of sustainable development.

In USA Today’s article about corporate social responsibility (CSR), DuPont, the $27 billion chemical manufacturer, is evolving from old smoke bellowing industry era into the environmentally conscious 21st century.

DuPont decided to invest billions of dollars into environmentally friendly products.

Since 1990, DuPont has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions by 72% and air carcinogen emissions by 92% at its facilities worldwide.

DuPont still faces some public health risks – lawsuits.

Stating the possibilty perfluoroctanoic acid, a chemical compound used in the manufacturing of Teflon, introduces public health risks and contaminates drinking water – DuPont denies charges.

Two years ago, DuPont settled with $16 million to Environmental Protection Agency after failing to report data on PFOA, a probable carcinogen.

Yet, DuPont states to produce $2 billion year revenue by 2015 from 1,000 products that save energy and reduce pollutants.

Is this good business practice?

Does it shine good light on DuPont to pour billions of dollars into safe, environmentally friendly products?

Should other corporations follow DuPont’s environmental friendly practices?

Listopica. The future is vibrant.

We stand today on the precipice overlooking an expanse shimmering into the distant haze of the future, one being born from a seething cauldron of revolutionary activity as profound as the molten metal foundries of the last 250 years that poured into modern mechanized industries that brought us to this day.

Listopica, part of this revolution, seethes with its own global opportunity.

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