Cutting-Edge Self-Awareness: Timberland

Leading the way, as it often has, in corporate ethics, social responsibility, and environmental care, Timberland releases its 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. (Thanks to CSRwire.com for the release.) Jeffrey Swartz (City Year board member and long-time CEO of another of Fortune's Best Companies to Work For) and Timberland are evolved well beyond the earthy nutrition label on each shoe box, although they study environmental impact as scientifically and openly as could be possibly be imagined, and have evolved to include things like quality of life for factory workers in their worldwide supply chain and providing micro-banks for their employees and keeping acquisitions (GoLite) in line with its core values.

Check out the report online if you have a second; it's a cross between the comprehensive, data-driven fundamentals of a 10-K Annual Report and the sleek attractiveness of a brochure for...something really cool that other companies should do, too.Other Bloggers: Do Well and Do Good