Social responsibility can take many forms, from a corporation pledging to eliminate pollution from its factories into local waterways to a family household working to reduce its overall waste output or an organization of technology industry professionals who are investigating the manipulation of voting machines to ensure fair and honest public elections. The practice of social responsibility is related to the environmentalist movement, and in many contexts the term will be applied to efforts to reduce human impact on ecosystems, but this is not the only way the term can be applied. Social responsibility has a more broad meaning that simply refers to an ethic of making sure one's actions do not have a negative impact on society as a whole.
