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- Sustainable Choices
- Facilities managers are increasingly finding that their organization has defined policies covering environmental and social issues. This is clearly both a challenge and an opportunity. If responsibilities and clear requirements on some sustainability issues can be passed effectively to contractors this can make a significant contribution to meeting the organization's...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- It Pays to be Environmentally Responsible | BTalk Australia
- Ensuring your business is helping to protect the environment is not just about being socially responsible. Amanda McCluskey, head of Responsible Investment and Sustainability for Colonial First State Global Asset Management, tells Phil Dobbie that environmental sustainability measures can also help businesses reduce costs and improve the bottom line. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
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- Sustainability: Balancing Opportunity and Risk in the Consumer Products Industry
- Sustainability is nothing new, yet it is unlike any issue the consumer products industry has encountered. Over the past 12 to 18 months, momentum has been building, with mounting pressures from all major stakeholders. These pressures are culminating in a perfect storm of heightened media attention, increasing consumer and shareholder...
- White papers 2007-09-09
- The Staying Power Of Sustainability: Balancing Opportunity And Risk In The Hospitality Industry
- Sustainability is a critical business issue that is becoming a mandatory requirement for the hospitality industry. Unlike certain other issues, sustainability is being shaped by drivers outside the industry's control. Additionally, it's not just about going green, it is about competing in a different world. While tensions can exist between...
- White papers 2008-06-19
- Environmental Sustainability Becoming Mandatory Component of Business Model for Consumer Businesses, According to GMA/Deloitte Study
- To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: Laura E. Wilker of Deloitte Services LP, +1-212-492- 2871, lwilker@deloitte.com; or Heather C. Garlich of Grocery Manufacturers Association, +1-202-295-3943, hgarlich@gmabrands.com WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental sustainability is not a passing trend; rather, it is a critical business issue that is rapidly becoming a...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- Energy and sustainability course. (University of Cambridge's Program for Industry's professional development courses)
- The University of Cambridge Programme for Industry is one again organising a number of professional development short courses, seminar and workshops throughout 1998. For one of these, the CUEA Conference on Engineering, Energy and Sustainability, the University says that there is now a broad consensus that...
- Research articles 1998-07-01
- For Coke's Brock, Sustainability Is No Longer a "Niche" Issue
- Sustainability is no longer a "niche" trend and is one that must be done all the time, according to John Brock, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, which produces and distributes Coke products. Speaking to Knowledge@Wharton, Brock said that being environmentally conscious "is not something you kid...
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
- Green IT: The Fast-Track To Enterprise Sustainability
- For decades, the business community has mainly viewed the Environment as a cost to be avoided or marginalized. Nowadays, an enormous perceptual shift is underway, which we call "The green wave." From magazines to television to movies, the concept of "Going green," which emphasizes environmental sustainability and reducing greenhouse gas...
- White papers 2007-08-21
- Skyscrapers give way to low-level business parks for sustainability.
- Byline: Richard Hemming May 09, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Office parks are the most popular solution to the provision of environmentally friendly office space. Many companies have moved to business parks outside city centres to save costs and...
- Research articles 2007-05-09
- ASHRAE priorities: Energy efficiency & sustainability
- Anonymous Contracting Business 02-01-2002 ASHRAE priorities: Energy efficiency & sustainability Byline: Anonymous Volume: 59 Number: 2 ISSN: 02794071 Publication Date: 02-01-2002 Page: 8 Type: Periodical Language: English Energy problems are not going away, and "the tentacles of the energy issue reach out into virtually everything... that we...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Softchoice Becomes First North American VAR to Issue Corporate Sustainability Report
- Softchoice Corporation (TSX: SO) today announced the release of the Company's first annual Corporate Sustainability Report. The report was created in accordance with the guidelines established by the Global Reporting Initiative GRI - considered the international standard for the transparent and reliable reporting of economic, environmental and social...
- Research articles 2009-04-29
- Softchoice Becomes First North American VAR to Issue Corporate Sustainability Report.(Company overview)(Report)
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Apr 29, 2009 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Softchoice Corporation (TSX:SO) today announced the release of the Company's first annual Corporate Sustainability Report. The report was created in accordance with the guidelines established by the Global Reporting Initiative GRI - considered the international...
- Research articles 2009-04-29
- Business Furniture Makers Issue Sustainability Guidelines
- GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan ENS — --> How often do office workers consider whether the steel desk that provides their work surface was created in an environmentally sustainable manner? Whether or not it is a topic of water cooler conversation, the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association BIFMA International has been...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- FEATURED NEXT ISSUE: HOW LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHOCOLATES BECAME A MODEL OF SUSTAINABILITY
- In the first In Business issue for 2007, Jim Lampman founder and president of Lake Champlain Chocolates explains what it takes to turn a former broom bristle factory into a shining example of natural light and oh-so-natural delectable goodness. With its energetic role in achieving LEED certification (the national standard...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Systems: The Realization And Sustainability Of Change
- Adoption of the change management techniques in an organization calls for the involvement of system members of the organization. The process helps in the successful implementation of feedback and system-building changes in the organization. The success or failure of change depends on the system members who implement the changes in...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Central Coast vineyard team - article discusses sustainability program at Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines company - Brief Article
- (Article taken from CCVT's "Update for Winegrape Growers" newsletter, Issue: May, 2002.)
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Hotels Queuing Up to LEED Sustainability
- Roughly one in five hotels plans to apply this year for a coveted green stamp of approval -- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification. Many companies, however, are already ahead of the game, because environmentally-conscious and often affluent guests are eager to lessen their guilt by reducing their carbon footprint. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Waste, industrial ecology, and sustainability - Garbage
- CONNOTATIONS of the word waste are indeed broad: authors of this issue include historians, policy-makers, sociologists, and a poet. This inspires the thought that beyond the purview of the local sanitation worker lies waste as transcendent metaphor: embodied, for example, in Emma Lazarus's policy-shaping image of the "wretched refuse of...
- Research articles 1998-03-22
- Warming issue gets even hotter.
- Byline: Philip Hopkins Mar 04, 2007 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Some Australian industries are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. A seminar run by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Melbourne has been told that more action on global warming...
- Research articles 2007-03-04
- ASHRAE's meeting reaches new heights.(FOCUS: AHR EXPO PRE-SHOW ISSUE)
- NEW YORK CITY -- "Reaching New Heights In Net-Zero Buildings" is the theme of this year's American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers' ASHRAE meeting, which will be held Jan. 19-23 at the New York Hilton. The meeting will focus on sustainability, professional development, and...
- Research articles 2008-01-07
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