By admin on August 18th, 2010
LONDON, United Kingdom — As large, widespread fast food chains have been pressured and prodded to lower the environmental impacts of their businesses, the same has not been asked of independent quick-service cafes and takeout spots, resulting in many offering unhealthy food with little incentive to improve the sustainability of their operations.
The U.K.-based New Economics Foundation (NEF) writes about the
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By admin on August 12th, 2010
Forrester’s latest forecast for the technology economy is bullish, which by extension means good news for providers of software and services focused on improving corporate sustainability.
In our new outlook for IT spending by businesses and governments, we estimate that the market will hit $1.58 trillion in 2010, up almost 8 percent from the depressed 2009 level, and grow by a
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By admin on August 2nd, 2010
“ULE 880 – Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations” is a points-based standard that will feature three levels of certification. The 102 indicators aim to measure and rate the sustainability of an entire business, focusing on the full spectrum of social and environmental sustainability rather than the environment. The standard defines core metrics within five areas:
• Sustainability governance: How an organization leads and
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By admin on July 29th, 2010
“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview — nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty” — Stephen Jay Gould
The Economist ran an interesting piece a couple of months ago on the charms of frugal innovation. In essence, it refers to the practice of starting with the needs of poor consumers (and those in
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By admin on July 26th, 2010
At its heart, sustainability is simply minimizing our carbon footprint today while still making sure that we are able to develop communities and meet our needs. Most of us aren’t able to go back to nature and live off the land or live in mud huts. Yet there is so much that we can do to create a sustainability community
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