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Not "Sustainability" but "Value" and "Innovation"

Posted by Greg Lavery on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Sustainable Development

By Greg Lavery, Lavery and Pennell The term "sustainability" has a confusing number of definitions. Leading companies have realized that sustainability is really all about capturing non-traditional areas of value – financial, social and environmental – which all add to the success of a company. In ...

Go Green City - 2013 Challenge

Posted by Talex on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

Go Green in the City 2013 Challenge Calling all business and engineering students! It’s time to team up for the annual Go Green in the City challenge. Sponsored by Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, Go Green in the City is an international case challenge f...

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Obama's Climate Change Promises

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

As President Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office for the second time, he has promised that climate change will be a priority in his second term. The chances that significant climate action will actually happen, however, remain slim, policy experts say. "I always have hope, but it is so...

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20 Steps to a Green 2013

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 01 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

If you want to be kinder to the planet and save some money at the same time, here are 20 ways to go green in 2013. Buy fresh, local food this summer at your local farmer's markets. The Merrimack Farmers Market has a great selection of locally produced food. You could also grow you...

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30 Jobs to Save The Planet for 2013

Posted by bensor on Tuesday, 01 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

1.Solar Engineer:  Whatever the future holds for the energy sector (and to say that it's a matter of dispute is an understatement), we should all remember one thing: nearly all the energy we use is ultimately solar in origin. The oil we extract is really a liquid battery of energy photosynth...

Be a Better Corporate Citizen

Posted by Dale on Monday, 31 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenshiprecently released its annual report on the state of corporate citizenship. For corporate social responsibility (CSR) practitioners and advocates, the survey’s findings are most encouraging for making what can...

Six Eco Resolutions

Posted by acox on Monday, 31 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

It’s nearly 2013 and I am grateful. After three years of traveling with a backpack through 14 countries in Africa and the Middle East, I am finally back home with my family in the United States. The time I spent abroad stretched my mind and broadened my heart, transformed long h...

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Sustainability and Football

Posted by bensor on Monday, 31 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

As is the case with most sports, college football–not to mention bowl games–and sustainability do not intuitively go in the same sentence. The long-term sustainability of many of these games themselves come into question considering how many of them there are; 6-6 teams have an opport...

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Living in a Sustainable City

Photo shared by bchristo on Thursday, 20 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

We are living in a uniquely urban time in Earth’s history. In 1800, and for a thousand years before, just 2% of the world’s people lived in urban areas. Within the past five years, we have reached the point where more people are living in cities than in rural areas. By 2050, arou...

52 New Sustainability Grants from The Coca-Cola Foundation

Posted by McCormick on Tuesday, 04 December 2012 in Sustainable Development

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fifty-two community organizations in 21 countries around the world were awarded a total of $8.6 million in grants from The Coca-Cola Foundation, the global philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company, during the third quarter of 2012. The grants, which fund initiatives ben...

Green Job Training Creating More Than a Green Job

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Can a community like the South Bronx, which suffers from high unemployment, underinvestment and so-called environmental injustice, fit into the green economy? In 2010 a union-backed training initiative took on the question, enrolling unemployed residents, including many w...

Doing Good While Doing Well

Posted by amir on Thursday, 15 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Problem: Changing the US and other countries in the world to create a green-based economy, while phasing out fossil fuels. Solution: It will take more than government programs and incentives. Companies and other organizations need to embrace the change and can prosper in doing so. This week's Solu...

Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities -- and walking Excerpted from "Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time"In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of map...

GO VOTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

In case you’ve been living under a rock, today is election day in the U. S of A – and we’re super excited for the possibilities that this hotly contested presidential election brings. If you are anything like most Americans, you’ve probably been following this election in the news, online,...

Clean Energy Jobs Act - Proposition 39

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Sustainable Development

Would you like to see a billion dollars of revenue restored to the state of California while 70,000 clean energy jobs are created? Vote YES on Proposition 39! Prop 39, the Clean Energy Jobs Act, will close a tax loophole that currently gives an unfair advantage to businesses located outside Califor...

Technology and Sustainable Development

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 in Sustainable Development

Washington, D.C.—More than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and countries such as India and China are in need of hundreds of additional cities to accommodate growing populations. People in many cities suffer from inadequate transportation, sub-standard buildings, lack o...

Montreal Protocol Turns 25

Posted by kenk on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Sustainable Development

Washington, DC 14 September 2012 – The world’s most successful environmental treaty turns 25 this week on September 16th. The treaty is the Montreal Protocol and its success has avoided one of the most severe global environmental threats the world has ever faced—the destruction of th...

Eco-Village: Sustainable, Affordable

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 25 August 2012 in Sustainable Development

By Jim Buchta, Star Tribune Nakeia and Ramell Dismond are like most working-class families: After the rent is paid, they have no money left in the budget for their kids' activities or vacations. That will change in a couple of months when they purchase a new twin home on the west edge of River Fal...

Urban Agriculture and Tourism for Sustainable Urban Development

Posted by henryfool on Sunday, 19 August 2012 in Sustainable Development

By Gary Thomas, azocleantech.com "Promoting Sustainable Urban Development through Urban Agriculture and Tourism" is the theme of the 2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF). The World Cities Scientific Development Alliance (WCSDA) organizes WCSDFs every year along with its partners....

2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 18 August 2012 in Sustainable Development

Promoting Sustainable Urban Development Through Urban Agriculture and Tourism The multi-stakeholder 2012 World Cities Scientific Development Forum (WCSDF) will take place 12 – 14 December 2012 in the historic city of Xi’an, China under the theme “Promoting Sustainable Urban Development through Urba...