Recent study on food miles – They’re not what matters most!

As global warming has been up on the agenda this week, I believe many of you will find the following synopsis of a recent study on the impact of food-miles on CO2 emissions quite interesting.  The study is from two pioneers in the field of environmental life-cycle analysis at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.  [Note: This [...]

Walking the talk

New Zealand government today has issued a law, forcing the retailers to only import bulbs that meet new efficiency standards or face fines of up to $10,000  as of October 2009.
Here’s the link to the article.
The ultimate goal is to reduce the energy consumption of New Zealand by 20% (!) by 2015.
Here’s another article on [...]

Google teams up with Amazon Tribe – CSR/SD effort

just saw this on CNN ( only English channel we get in Reims )
A great example to follow up on the discussion of this afternoon class about SD and CSR ! Google does it again … they teamed up with an amazon tribe in Brazil to use google earth to help attract attention to the [...]

Vigeo Group | CSR Audit (in FRA)

–WOW– to be honest, I am not sure we have firms like this in Canada, but the Vigeo Group are, in essence, THE Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) police in France.
Vigeo examined ~ 1,500 European, American and Asian companies with regards to:

Human Rights
Human Resources
Environment
Business Behaviour
Corporate Governance
Community Involvment

I  L I K E.
Offering services similar to that of [...]

Creating Jobs in developing nations while going Green

I think that the BIG question is that: What would it take to persuade people in developing countries to acknowledge the importance of sustainable development?
It just might be easy to save the environment, instead of reversing the damage done. And developing countries are the right platform to do so. The video depicts as to how [...]