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(via Subaru of America Helps Pets in Need Find Homes During 2019 Washington Auto Show – Press Releases on CSRwire.com)

CAMDEN, N.J., Apr. 04 /CSRwire/ —  Subaru of America, Inc. today announced it will be hosting a pet adoption event during the 2019 Washington Auto Show through a partnership with local animal shelter, Humane Rescue Alliance. The 501(c)3 non-profit organization works to connect homeless pets with loving homes while also offering adoption, training and medical services. This first-of-its-kind event, which will take place at the Subaru exhibit inside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, seeks to unite pets with their forever homes.

“Subaru is committed to protecting and improving the lives of animals everywhere, and that means bringing them into the arms of loving owners,” said Alan Bethke, Senior Vice President, Marketing of Subaru of America, Inc. “Our partnership with Humane Rescue Alliance reinforces our dedication to the animals who bring us joy each day by helping shelter animals in the Washington, D.C. metro area find lifetime homes.”

Attendees to the exhibit will have the opportunity to adopt and take home a dog or puppy. Visitors are also encouraged to make rope toys as a donation to the shelter or for their own pet, as well as create custom pet tags using the Subaru Loves Pets engraver. All activities at the Subaru booth will be complimentary, with donations and proceeds benefiting Humane Rescue Alliance.

Auto show attendees will be able to interact with the adorable dogs during select times and dates, as outlined below:

Friday, April 5th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Saturday, April 6th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Sunday, April 7th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Friday, April 12th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Saturday, April 13th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Sunday, April 14th: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

“The Humane Rescue Alliance is delighted to partner with Subaru of America for the 2019 Washington Auto Show to support and celebrate people’s love and compassion for the animals in our community,” said Lisa LaFontaine, President and CEO of the Humane Rescue Alliance. “We’re grateful for the opportunity to highlight our adoptable animals, share our mission, and help pets find their forever homes with an organization like Subaru that is dedicated to animal welfare.”

All adopters are subject to standard Humane Rescue Alliance adoption guidelines and procedures. Prospective adopters can expect to bring home a dog the same day they visit the exhibit, and should bring with them a photo ID. To learn more about the adoption process, visit humanerescuealliance.org.

This Washington Auto Show adoption event is a part of the Subaru Loves Pets initiative, which is dedicated to helping improve the safety and well-being of animals in communities nationwide. The automaker’s commitment to pets is one part of its Love Promise philanthropic platform. For more information about Subaru Loves Pets, please visit www.subaru.com/pets.

About Subaru Love Promise

The Subaru Love Promise is just that. A promise. It is a promise to do right by our community by partnering with nonprofit education, health, community, environment, and animal organizations - to set Subaru apart through our deeds and the deeds of our partners. To be unlike any other car company by doing what is right and good, just for the sake of doing it.

About Humane Rescue Alliance

  The Humane Rescue Alliance has protected and served the animals of the community for more than 145 years and serves thousands of animals annually. The broad range of programs offered include: rescue and adoption, humane law enforcement, low-cost veterinary services, animal care and control, behavior and training, spay-neuter services, humane education, and many others. The organization is dedicated to ensuring the safety and welfare of all animals, bringing people and animals together, and working with all communities to support these relationships. HRA is based in Washington, DC, the only major urban area in the country that has all of its animal protection programs and services unified in one organization, making the Humane Rescue Alliance a model for the nation.

About Subaru of America, Inc.

Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Subaru Corporation of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Camden, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 630 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SOA is guided by the Subaru Love Promise, which is the company’s vision to show love and respect to everyone, and to support its communities and customers nationwide. Over the past 20 years, SOA has donated more than $120 million to causes the Subaru family cares about, and its employees have logged more than 40,000 volunteer hours. As a company, Subaru believes it is important to do its part in making a positive impact in the world because it is the right thing to do.

For additional information visit media.subaru.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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[For more information about this event and alliance, contact:]

CONTACT Diane Anton [phone]

[email protected]

Subaru of America, Inc. Sam Miller [phone]

[email protected]

Humane Rescue Alliance   

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We had another great project event in Detroit today with our wonderful WellnessAd advertising partner, Bob Evans Restaurants who not only funded improvements at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen and the Earthworks Urban Farm, but also spent this morning volunteering at the Farm to help get it ready for the fall season. Read all about it in our press release and check back tomorrow on our Facebook for the photos!

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Spring break is coming to an end, and it was a definitely a busy one for me, full of more conference than vacation.  I had the opportunity to present some of my preliminary findings on my thesis on the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and the UN Guiding Principles at the Intertek Ethical Sourcing Forum in New York City this past week.  This conference was an amazing opportunity to meet and hear from a large amount of the leaders in corporate social responsibility in a variety of industries.  

Here are some pictures from the conference, Greg Yahr from the AAFA presented on initiatives looking at environmental impacts in the apparel industry, like the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.  Joe Sibilia, CEO of CSRwire, talked about the enthusiasm and growth of CSR in all industries.  And there was a panel discussion on brand collaboration, especially within conflict minerals.  Representatives from Chrysler and ITC (International Trade Centre) were on this panel.

After the conference, I stopped by the Tracy Reese office to say hello to some of my old coworkers and Tracy.  Turns out Sheena (the Tracy Reese Trims Designer and of Mojito Nails) was wearing a vintage dress similar to my Jason Wu for Target dress, so we took a twinsie pic!

For my presentation of the conference, I wore my Jason Wu for Target dress with my H&M jersey blazer, black tights, and black Tracy Reese mary janes.  Kept it simple and comfortable.

That's been my spring break!  Now that classes will start up again, we'll start posting on our usual frequency.  Hope you didn't miss us too much!

-Tiffa

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Wall Street's Zero Sum Game: Phantom Wealth

As part of the New Economy 2.0 series 

  By David Korten

In business school we were taught to assess investment options to maximize financial return. I don’t recall that the professor ever mentioned this meant maximizing returns to people who have money—to make rich people richer. Or that money is a system of power and the more our lives depend on money, the greater our subservience to those who control the creation and allocation of money.

Nor do I recall asking my professors, “What is money?” “Why do we assume maximizing financial return maximizes the creation of real value?” “How does the conversion of natural living wealth to financial wealth create real value?” “What about the many fortunes built through financial speculation, fraud, government subsidies, the sale of harmful products and the abuse of monopoly power?” I may have had some doubts, but kept them to myself for fear of being dismissed as hopelessly stupid.

Perhaps those who taught us economics, finance and accounting did not themselves recognize the difference real living wealth and phantom financial wealth.

Real wealth has intrinsic value. Examples include fertile land, healthful food, knowledge, productive labor, pure water and clean air, labor, and physical infrastructure. The most important forms of real wealth are beyond price and unavailable for market purchase. These include healthy, happy children, loving families, caring communities, a beautiful, healthy, natural environment.

Real wealth also includes all the many things of intrinsic artistic, spiritual or utilitarian value essential to maintaining the various forms of living wealth. These may or may not have a market price. They include healthful food, fertile land, pure water, clean air, caring relationships and loving parents, education, health care, fulfilling opportunities for service, and time for meditation and spiritual reflection.

Money, a number on a piece of paper or created with an accounting enter, has no intrinsic value. Wall Street generates it in astonishing quantities through accounting tricks, financial bubbles and debt pyramids. It appears from nowhere and can disappear in an instant, as a phantom in the night.

Those engaged in creating phantom wealth collect handsome “performance” fees for their services and walk away with their gains. When the bubble bursts, borrowers default on debts they cannot pay and the bubbles and debt pyramid collapse in a cascade of bankruptcies.

It is easy to confuse phantom financial assets with the real wealth for which they can be exchanged. Indeed, the illusions of phantom wealth are so convincing that most Wall Street players believe they are creating real wealth.

The market, of course, makes no distinction between the dollars acquired through means that enrich society, those created by means that impoverish society and those simply created out of thin air. Money is money, and the more you have, the more the market eagerly responds to your every whim. It is still only a number with no existence outside the human mind.

Those who benefit from the creation of phantom wealth may never realize their gain is unfairly diluting everyone else’s claim to the available stock of real wealth. They may also fail to realize Wall Street and its international counterparts have generated total phantom-wealth claims far in excess of the value of all the world’s real wealth, thus creating expectations of future security and comforts that can never be fulfilled.

The deceptions are built right into our language. We refer to speculation as “investment” and to phantom financial wealth as “capital.” Indeed, when we hear the terms wealth, resources, capital, assets or resources, we have no way to know whether the reference is to a real asset or only to a phantom financial asset. Our language gives us no way to make this essential distinction. It is no wonder we get confused and fail to recognize that Wall Street produces nothing of real value.

About David Korten

David Korten (livingeconomiesforum.org) is the author of Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World. He is board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group and a founding member of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).

About New Economy 2.0 

Visionary economist David Korten introduces a national conversation series, New Economy 2.0, on CSRwire Talkback based on his acclaimed book, Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd edition. For the next several weeks, Korten will summarize the main points and key lessons of each chapter of his book, leading from a dissection of what went wrong in the “phantom wealth Wall Street economy” to the presentation of a vision of a world of real wealth Main Street economies that support strong middle class societies, honor real market principles and work in partnership with Earth’s biosphere.

New Economy 2.0 envisions an economy in which life is the defining value and power that resides in people and communities. It contrasts with the popular New Economy 1.0 fantasy of a magical high-tech economy liberated from environmental reality and devoted to the growth of phantom wealth financial assets.

This exciting, new series is co-published by CSRwire and YES! Magazine.

The arguments presented here are developed in greater detail in Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine Web store.

Talkback Readers: Does Wall Street deal in real or phantom assets? Tell us your thoughts on Talkback!