Carnival of Ethics, Values and Personal Finance No. 2

Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival of Ethics, Values and Personal Finance.

While you're here, please browse my archives and explore the site. This post, this one, and this one will give you some idea how my own sense of ethics shapes my financial life. I hope you'll come back again.

I'm honored to be hosting so early in the game. I received a staggering 45 submissions, quite a coup for a brand-new carnival in a relatively small niche. Breaking with my usual practice of using an extremely simple carnival structure, I've grouped the posts into a few categories. I did this mostly because I thought it would be interesting to see what came to people's minds when they heard the carnival's name: Ethics, Values and Personal Finance. Of course there was a lot of overlap between the categories, but I shoehorned each post in as well as I could.

The categories are as follows:
Attitudes toward money (5 posts)
Economic class and low-income workers (3 posts)
Business ethics and career choices (6 posts)
Environmentalism (2 posts)
Charity and donations (3 posts)
Activism and Socially Responsible Investing (2 posts)
Ethical spending choices (3 posts)
When others are unethical (3 posts)
and last but not least, Ethical blogging (1 post)

If you're scratching your head trying to figure out why your post wasn't included, it was probably because I simply didn't think it was relevant. I got a lot of excellent submissions that didn't focus on ethics or values. Those were omitted. Normally I also don't like to include posts that have been in other carnivals already, but in this case, since the carnival was listed as monthly, at least half of the posts had been submitted to a weekly carnival. I unbent just a little--any posts that had already been included in more that one carnival were omitted. And to the people who submitted two, three, four posts, I chose only one from each blog. The exception was Queercents. They got two submissions past me because they were written by two different bloggers.

Because of the enthusiastic response to the first two editions, this carnival will be biweekly from now on. The next edition will be hosted at An English Major's Money on February 15th. I hope you'll consider submitting a post about how money relates to your own values, whatever they might be.

Without further ado, here's the second Carnival of Ethics, Values and Personal Finance.

Attitudes toward money
English Major presents The Symbolism of Money posted at An English Major's Money.

Jimmy Atkinson presents Top 25 Personal Finance Myths posted at Ask the Advisor.

TMT presents The Meaning Behind The Money - An Exercise posted at The Money Tortoise.

Johan Holmberg presents 14 Lessons on Money posted at The Probabilist . com.

ISPF presents The Virtue of Tipping posted at Personal Finance for Students and Fresh Grads.

Economic class and low-income workers
Paula presents What Class Are You? posted at Queercents.

Bill presents A Popular, But Stupid, Idea posted at Ask Uncle Bill.

Adam presents Priced to move posted at The Free Thinker.

Business ethics and career choices
Larry Russell presents The economics of the financial advisory industry posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog.

David E. presents Why Work posted at Worldwide Success.

Murad presents Diversity is Profits posted at The New Business World.

Donna Jean presents Prelude to a Job posted at The Weight of Money.

Paul Gonzalez presents Living your Values vs Finding a Purpose posted at The One Year Exit Plan.

John Peter presents Value of Your Work: Get What You Deserve! posted at OhCash.com.

Environmentalism
Jennifer Miner presents Luxury Ecotourism Destinations: Ecotravel in tropical spots can make green travel feel like a luxury vacation. posted at Luxury & Resort Travel articles.

Wenchypoo presents Green is Making Me See Red (L-O-N-G) posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo's Mental Wastebasket.

Charity and donations
S presents Finding a balance between charitable, activist, and political giving posted at The 100 by 30 project.

Mallory presents MissMalaprop.com Charity Fundraiser Kickoff posted at Miss Malaprop - indie finds for your uncommon life.

Fiscal Responsibility presents Giving Back posted at Fiscal Responsibility.

Activism and Socially Responsible Investing
David Gross presents Your War Doesn't Fit Into My Budget posted at The Picket Line.

Nina presents WWYD: Profiting From What We Morally Don't Approve posted at Queercents.

Ethical spending choices
Penny Nickel presents Valentine's Day With A Heart (Fair Trade) posted at Money and Values.

Wanda presents Conscious spending, or why spending $5,000 on shoes isn?t bad! posted at Well-heeled: climbing the networth ladder in heels.

Amy Lin presents The greatest story ever sold is a fantasy covered in blood. posted at Wise Bread.

When others are unethical
Matthew Paulson presents Don't be Stupid! Stay Away from Debt Elimination Scams posted at Getting Green.

Makingourway presents the tide turns against the parasites running class action law suites (the plaintiff's bar) posted at makingourway.

Millionaire Artist presents Integrity and wealth-building posted at Millionaire Artist.

Ethical blogging
Stingy Student presents Stingy Students: Get up off my ads - why advertising sucks posted at Stingy Students.


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