Starbucks CSR…?

Hello again to everyone,
I just wanted to write a small post today with regards to Starbucks being a “good” (opposed to bad or ugly) company, in terms of CSR. Last year I watched a documentary on the coffee industry called: Black Gold, which has won international awards in Australia, Brazil and Europe. I found [...]

China’s pollution crisis

Hello everyone,
when we made some research on the pollution crisis in China this afternoon, I discovered a  very interesting serie of articles, videos and interactive graphics on the website of The New York Times. It has 10 parts and illustrates quiet well how everything is related one to the other- pollution, water&food supply, health problems, employement, quality of life, [...]

“floating homes”

Hallo everybody,

today in the morning we talked about the consequences of global warming like for example the rise of water surface which will make a lot of people in India homeless.

In this moment I remembered an idea I heard some years ago called “floating home”. This is no longer an idea, today -it [...]

IOeW – The Institute for Ecological Economy Research

I decided to write about this Institute because of the last case study. During the research we came across Adidas AG, which was evaluated by this institute.

Since its establishment in May 1985, the IOeW has been able to extend its range of topics continuously. There are different interdisciplinary research teams, and each of them [...]

How can the Chinese companies be real profitable sustainably?

Hi everybody:
After today’s course, I would like to give some feedback about how the companies from emerging countries can enter the international market and get profitable sustainably.

China, as one of the biggest emerging country, has an important influence on the global economic growth. [...]