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- Climate Change: CO2 is Not the Only Gas Attack
- How is your company air-conditioning its buildings? It may be the equipment it's using is unsustainable, even though it complies with today's environmental regulations. Although CO2 is by far the most common greenhouse gas (gases that are trapped in the earth's atmosphere which retain...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- 'Carbon Neutral' is Meaningless
- Among dubious phrases -- "the cheque is in the post", "I am from head office and I'm here to help" -- the least credible phrase of the current decade has to be "carbon-neutral company". What does that mean exactly? Companies must be responsible about their level of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Energy Paper Promises to Create 1.2 Million 'Green' Jobs
- The UK government’s energy white paper “The low carbon transition plan†, purports to provide a pathway to a low carbon economy. After the past 10 years of dithering, mixed messages and unfulfilled promises, can we expect more this time around? The white paper...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Businesses Need to Preserve Voluntary Sector Links
- In a recent report commissioned by the Cabinet Office, the Building Stronger Communities Task Force called for urgent action to build closer links between businesses and the communities in which they operate. The report, "Business and the Third Sector, Innovation in Tough Times" contains three priority recommendations. Build...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- UK Businesses Risk Falling Foul of Carbon Control Regulations
- The Carbon Reduction Commitment CRC is a new carbon emissions trading scheme that will affect large organisations in the UK. It is coming into force soon and businesses who flout the regulations risk a heavy fine. The CRCÂ forms part of the Climate Change Bill that was introduced...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Sustainable Business: Fad or Fact?
- Even though the current economic climate has forced businesses to concentrate on other things, carbon footprint, sustainability and corporate social responsibility CSR are still being used by many of them to sell to consumers. These are buzz-words that would have been unfamiliar to the general public five years agoin but are...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Managing Sustainable Value Chains
- In the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, Japanese industry taught the world a lot about managing value chains. Now that we have committed to more sustainable practices, these lessons have never been so important. By minutely managing every aspect of the value...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- The Four CSR Ambitions
- I am not sure who first said something like "what gets measured gets done" [often attributed to Peter Drucker - ed] but it was a very wise statement. It is particularly true when we think about corporate social responsibility CSR. Until recently the CSR section of a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Olympics Already Regenerating Depressed Portland
- One of the reasons for hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 is the chance to gain the sort of regeneration enjoyed by past hosts such as Barcelona in 1992. What was once a backwater has become a destination in tourism and commercial terms. Although some benefits of the games can be monetised and accounted for,...
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
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- No Big Deals Mean a Bleak Midwinter for Top British Investment Bankers.
- By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 12--Investment bankers are facing a bleak bonus season this Christmas. The cash and share pools from which the big City banks dispense largesse to favoured employees are expected to be cut...
- Research articles 2001-12-12
- A Sustainable Olympics
- Shaun McCarthy, Chair of the 2012 Sustainability Committee explains the challenge of persuading suppliers of London's Olympic Games construction project to adopt sustainable practices, right down to sourcing the concrete.
- Videos 2009-07-23
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