Clean Tech is viewed, especially among the entrepreneurs and pundits of Silicon Valley, as the next evolutionary step for the region. Workers in this emerging work domain come from other technology fields, as well as disciplines ranging from classic energy economics to countercultural consumer products. Beliefs about the need to reinvent capitalism merge with narratives about innovation and environmentalism to create distinctive cultural narratives about the purpose and destiny of clean technology. This "new space," as technologists and entrepreneurs call it, has some of the features of the information technology economy, and others--such as a large and embedded infrastructure in the utilities industry, that are quite divergent. Politics, capital investments, and narratives of planetary and personal risk loom large in narratives about clean technology. It is a global industry, but local areas create different stories of how clean tech should be supported, cultivated and brought to market. Local political and economic realities also influence how work is developed and supported in particular regions. Based on fieldwork with entrepreneurs, educators, policy actors and consumers in Silicon Valley and along the Pacific West, this paper explores key metaphorical concepts—risk, entrepreneurship, innovation, and mission. Different stakeholders are imagining diverse cultural futures, some radical, others buffering a transformational shift, and use that vision of the future to rationalize particular actions.

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Based on an ongoing PhD research, the purpose of this text is to discuss some of the implications of urban transformation in everyday local life and identities.

In a context of global competition, cities face the need to attract an increasingly higher number of visitors. Accordingly, we have been witnessing the rehabilitation and revitalization of urban historical centers and their transformation into recreational areas. The implications of this transformation go far beyond spatial embellishments and the only way to fully understand it is through an ethnography of the street. The street is the place that reveals the sense that everyday urban interaction has to each townsman. Only at street level can we understand how these transformations are experienced. How they force people to reconsider their social roles and rethink their self-images, how they require a reorganization of social networks, but also the manner in which these transformations affect, not only the quarter but also the whole city.

The case study is Rua da Bica Duarte Belo, in the Bica quarter. Since the late 1990's this historical neighborhood has undergone a profound transformation. Numerous bars and restaurants have emerged and transformed the street in an area of nighttime leisure. This transformation appears to have created two separate and distinct worlds whose cohabitation involves contrasting and, sometimes, conflicting uses and appropriations of public space.

Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, is a world hub of developing-world globalization. It is where African and South Asian traders buy, under the radar of the law, cheap China-made phones, clothing, and computers, to carry back to their home countries. Chungking Mansions is in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district, located on some of the most expensive real estate on earth. Why does this building, long reputed to be a center of crime, still exist?

Two reasons are these: 1) the building has 920 owners, many of whom cannot easily be found, and 2) the building's many business and guesthouse owners make much profit, not because of high prices but because of a high volume of customers. Thus they have long preferred the building to stay as it is—a crash pad for developed-world backpackers in the 1980s and a haven for developing-world traders today.

The incorporated owners have lately put in many improvements, whether to entice or fend off developers. But the most important factor in the building's survival may be that Chungking Mansions is now becoming fashionable. It still may be torn down to become one more shopping mall. But ironically, the building seems less likely to be demolished than to become a sort of "Disneyland of the developing world," for tourists and locals. This may be distasteful to anthropologists, but might be a socially responsible outcome, making the best of an untenable situation.

Using the concept of "moral economy" and the ISO International Standards Guidance (ISO 2600), the paper will compare the differences and similarities in the attitudes toward community responsibility and business operations among the Chinese American entrepreneurs who function in and outside of Chinatown. Data obtained from fieldwork indicate that entrepreneurial success/failure has much to do with the application of cultural values in economic activities. Further, entrepreneurs in different localities were guided by different definitions of social responsibility; business practices pertaining to maintenance and profit maximization were influenced by cultural values important to the larger society as well as the ethnic community. The concept of "moral economy", contrary to the claim of many, is not only applicable to pre-capitalist societies; it is relevant to the ethnic enterprises in America. Entrepreneurs, who pay attention to social justice and community welfare, as indicated in the data, do have results. Finally, the paper examines how Chinese employees use cultural-specific methods such as gossip, resistance, protest, resignation, slow-down and other cultural mechanisms to exact employers' compliance to standards for social justice.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming an increasingly hot topic around the world, as well as in China. In this paper, the author, based on his experience of writing sustainability reports for a leading state-owned enterprise in China, analyzes CSR development and its prospect in China from the perspective of CSR reporting. The paper divides CSR development into four phases including passive acceptance, conscious respond, active communication and strategic integration, and claims that CSR reporting in China, in general, is at the second phase, which is featured by CSR taken as a tool of public relations. In conclusion, the author proposes a "bottom-up" pattern of CSR development at the beginning followed by a "top-down" pattern that integrate CSR in the whole process value chain of a company, and give some suggestions on CSR reporting.

The topics of censorship and pornography have attracted considerable interest from both academics and feminists. An examination of the literature finds that much of the research in the two areas is based on secondary data, textual analysis and audience studies. While the reasons and implications of pornography censorship have been widely discussed, the actual censorship process of pornography seems to be a mystery. Drawing on field research in a self-regulatory adult videos censorship organization in Japan, this paper examines how Japanese adult videos are censored to enforce corporate social responsibility as well as presents empirical evidence which shows that bureaucratic management practice is employed to maintain efficiency and effectiveness of adult videos censorship. It is found that the censorship process follows general rules, which are more or less strict, more or less flexible, and which are learned through the censorship process. Also, a linear bureaucratic hierarchy is formed based on the types of employment contract rather than on job titles. The three types of employment contract: "seishain", "hakken" and "part-time" create tensions within the organization and affect the working attitudes of censors. Consequently, the nature of adult videos censorship performed by censors employed under different types of contract varies.