‘Sustainability News’
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Is SEI’s Online Campus Really That Good?
Is SEI's Online Campus Really That Good? Starting tomorrow, SEI is offering the following online sessions: PVOL101: Solar Electric Design and Installation (Grid-Direct) PVOL202: Advanced PV System Design and the NEC (Grid-Direct) Call SEI's Student Services at (970) [...]
Registration open for June 2013 S-CORE Training
Sustainability - Competency, Opportunity, Reporting & Evaluation Dear Colleague: Registration is now open for the 5-week S-CORE Distance-learning session to be held June 3 - July 1, 2012. Course begins June 3rd and continues each Monday through July 1st. Whether you are a [...]
Earth Policy Release – Dozens of U.S. Cities Board the Bike-Sharing Bandwagon
Dozens of U.S. Cities Board the Bike-Sharing Bandwagon Janet Larsen http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2013/update113 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update May 14, 2013 When New York City opened registration for its much anticipated public bike-sharing program on April 15, 2013, more than 5,000 people signed up within 30 [...]
Waste Free Oceans Newsletter: WFO and the Black Sea Commission
On the 21st November 2012, Mr Bernard Merkx, Project Manager of WFO was invited to present the Waste Free Oceans Foundation to the Board of the Black Sea Commission during their yearly meeting. This meeting was also attended by both the president and director of the International Commission for Protection of Danube River (ICPDR), so [...]
The Sustainable Value of “Brand Disney”: Strategic Implications of Its Withdrawal from Bangladesh
What I Learned About Sustainability at REI, Part 1: Abundance Over Scarcity After seven years of working on sustainable business at REI, I am taking some time to reflect and share some of the things I learned. My first [...]
Skoll World Forum: What will the world look like 50-100 years from now?
A bite-size email with original insight and hand-picked news from & for the social sector. 1. DARE TO IMAGINE What will the world look like 50-100 years from now? "We are quickly becoming a global neuro-network. The power of a correct idea [...]
Earth Policy Release – Full Planet, Empty Plates Chapter Two
Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/books/fpep/fpepch2 Earth Policy Release Full Planet, Empty Plates May 9, 2013 Over the next several weeks, we will be releasing Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester R. Brown in installments. Look for a new [...]
DEPUTY UN CHIEF STRESSES NEED TO ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AS CITIES CONTINUE TO GROW
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General today encouraged governments, the tourism industry and local communities to work together to tackle the important challenge of urbanization and tourism to sustainable development.In <"http://www.un.org/sg/dsg/statements/index.asp?nid=400">remarks to the Working Luncheon on Sustainable Urban [...]
E This Week: More Evidence Environment Is Impacting Autism
May 05, 2013 WHAT WE'RE FOLLOWING More Evidence Environment Is Impacting [...]
CSRwire News Alert – Welcome to “Rugged Collaborationism” + Measuring Business Sustainability With Earth Systems Science
Measuring the Sustainability of Business: From Economism To Earth Systems Science Twenty-five years ago, pictures of our planet taken by NASA showed how our living biosphere captures the daily shower of free photons from the Sun teaching us that we did not need to dig in the Earth's crust for our energy but [...]
