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• Steel Giant To Make £1 Billion From EU Carbon Trading Scheme

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Image via: Tim_Freh on Flickr.com Steel giant Lakshmi MIttal, owner of ArcelorMittal, is poised to make an estimated £1 Billion this next year thanks to an estimated 14 million allocated emissions permits Arcelor wont need and can now sell on the EU Carbon Trading Market . Some estimate this number could rise as ...
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• Real change will only come when parties start working together

  
  O'Conall Street — Authority: 468
  I have written a colum for today’s Belfast Telegraph in which I argue that the SDLP and UUP should start working together to provide voters with an alternative to the DUP – SF coalition. There is nothing in the structures of government which would prevent the UUP and SDLP from developing common positions on ...
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• Locate Your B Corp in Philly, Get a Tax Break

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Image via: Mr. Biggs on Flickr.com Just this week, the City Council of Philadelphia unanimously decided to offer tax breaks to all B Corps located in the city. Turns out, its a bit of help you help me as they found that most B Corps are also contributing to the improvement of the city and the overall reduction of ...
  6 days ago

• Empowering Young People Around the Globe to Make a Difference

  
  Direct2Dell — Authority: 668
    It has been a busy and exciting year for us at Dell Global Giving. Dell YouthConnect , a global program designed to support education and digital inclusion initiatives for underserved youth, has  launched in seven countries and provided more than $8 million to educational initiatives that will impact more than ...
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• Primark: big profits and hollow promises

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 471
  December 2006: investigators find sweatshops in Bangladesh where workers are making Primark clothes for 5p an hour . Primark said: “As members of the Ethical Trading Initiative we are fully committed to the campaign to improve working standards in Bangladesh.” June 2008: Panorama finds 9 year olds working on ...
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• Grocery manufacturers step up sustainability investment

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 513
  New research from food and grocery expert IGD has revealed that 85% of manufacturers have either boosted their investment in sustainability or kept it the same during the recession despite just over two-fifths (42%) believing it is not yet high enough on the shopper agenda.Three-quarters (76%) of suppliers think that ...
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• MIT Sloan Management Reviews Michael Hopkins at Opportunity Green on the Future for Workplace Managers (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Image by Matt Grigsby. Michael S. Hopkins is Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review , "the leading print and web publication that brings ideas from the world of thinkers (scholars, researchers, management theoreticians) to the executives and managers who use those ideas to build businesses." As a ...
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• Get Involved in Corporate Volunteering!

  
  Realizing Your Worth — Authority: 107
  As you may have noticed, we’re big fans of social media. We believe it’s an essential aspect to any companies Corporate Social Responsibility strategy ( check out our blog on How to use CSR as a social media platform, rather than a marketing tool ). That’s why were thrilled with today’s launch of Power of ...
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• The Senate inquiry into Australia Post should provide important lessons in OHS, HR, RTW and LTIFR

  
  Safety At Work Blog — Authority: 137
  For decades OHS professionals have known that the Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) does not accurately measure the safety performance of an organisation.  LTIFR can be manipulated and is responsive to single catastrophic events.  The consensus has always been that LTIFR is one indicator of safety improvement ...
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• A Neat Site Promoting Responsible Beer Consumption

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 706
  Disclaimer: I like and drink Heineken beer, in moderation, and I have written about this great Dutch beer before. However, I am not on Heineken’s payroll—I wish I was. I don’t know much about Heineken’s business practices, except that Heineken has defined seven areas on which the company believes it ...
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• Bhopal remembered

  
  Chhavi Noticed This! — Authority: 99
  I went to Bhopal to report on the 25th anniversary of the Union Carbide/Dow gas leak and found there was so much more to the story than that one night and the inhalation of the poison. There’s stories of shirked corporate responsibility, incredible government oversight and cuckoldry, stories of death, cancer, ...
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• To sue or not to sue

  
  O'Conall Street — Authority: 468
  Tiger Woods will be wondering what legal recourse he has today as the tabloids have a feeding frenzy about the circumstances leading to his car crash last week.  This is a issue a colleague of mine in London, Rob Clayton, has written a lot about. Here are his latest thoughts on the thorny issue of when to sue and ...
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• Interview With Raul Vazquez, CEO of Walmart.com

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Image: Courtesy of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart embodies truths and prejudices that reflect our consumer culture. They are a straw-man for a lot of what is wrong. But, especially in recent years, they are a powerful potential leader in trying to be right. Thanks to some networking by our fearless leader, Graham Hill, TreeHugger ...
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• Coca-Cola Unveils Plant-Based Bottle of the Future

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  By Timothy B. Hurst It is only a matter of time before Coca-Cola products in North America will be packaged in plant-based containers. The mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) derived from sugarcane and molasses have already started popping up in Europe and Coca-Cola officials say the new PlantBottle will be ready for a North ...
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• Seizing the Reins on Sustainability

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 611
  While most executives realize that sustainability could have vast implications for their business, our research reveals that few companies are acting meaningfully on that insight. To the contrary, most firms to date have made only token moves regarding sustainability, and most of those moves have been driven by ...
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• Asbestos Awareness Week calls for action

  
  Safety At Work Blog — Authority: 137
  During Asbestos Awareness Week 2009 in Melbourne Australia the trade union movement pledged to begin a national strategy to control and remove asbestos from Australia.  This would have been a very tall ask any time in the last two decades but Asbestos needs to compete now with Climate Change for the attention of the ...
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• Dont Tell Us It Cant Be Done, Timberland Says To Cophenhagen Delegates

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Image: Timberland Dont Tell Us It Cant Be Done is a global campaign by the 54 year old boot maker, Timberland. They say it gives the public a forum to let their voices be heard, to challenge world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP15), in Copenhagen next month, to commit to reducing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Experience The Economics of Happiness at Schumacher College

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Image via Schumacher College Are you fed up with being depressed about the recession ? Weve spent so long suffering the effects of the credit crunch have we forgotten how to look on the bright side? At a time time when many worry that were just going back to using the business as usual operatin... Read the full ...
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• Horny Toad and Goodwill Share the Warmth

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 668
  Photo: David McLain for Horny Toad In the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas, the king looks out and see snow all about. He also notices a poor man gathering winter fuel, though the frost be cruel. He sets out into the night to save the man from his plight. The carol concludes "be sure, wealth or rank possessing, ...
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• Soil and Soul, by Alastair McIntosh

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 471
  I picked this up over the summer at the Greenbelt festival, where Alastair McIntosh was speaking. I should have read it earlier really, as it’s book as deep and beautiful as the lochs described in its pages. A strange but compelling blend of politics and poetry, prophecy and protest. McIntosh begins with a rich ...
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