‘Sustainability News’
General reporting on issues, research and experimental programs, new trade associations, and communities/business efforts, advertising, marketing.
Relates to: Trendspotting, Community Development Solutions, Global Citizenship, Sustainability Research Group, EthicalMarkets.tv
Patagonia Registers as First California Benefit Corporation
Patagonia Registers as First California Benefit Corporation After 'Year of the Protester', Business Leaders Embrace Positive Alternative Submitted by: B Lab/B Corporation SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 03 /CSRwire/ - Today, Patagonia became the first company in California to elect benefit corporation status. Patagonia founder Yvon [...]
Ecological Facilitation: A Gritty and Creative Approach to Leadership
Newsletter - January 2012 Warm greetings for 2012 to all our newsletter readers. We hope this year is a rewarding and hopeful one for you. 2011 was a very busy and exciting year for the College, with the start of the new MA Economics for Transition, preparations for our new vocational courses and a jam-packed Short Course programme with more [...]
Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment
Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation, and Member of UN Secretary-General’s High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All - Urgent Action on Energy Needed For Both Development and Environment For_humanity to thrive and for the planet to support it, [...]
Best wishes for 2012 from us all at HELIO International
We at Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) congratulate our partner HELIO and its brilliant, dedicated leader, Helene Connor for her well-deserved prestigious award: France’s Legion d ‘ Honneur for 2012! CONGRATULATIONS, to Helene! Hazel Henderson, Editor Best wishes for 2012 from us all at HELIO International. 2012 is starting off [...]
ASBC Teleconference with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson January 17th at 11:00AM EST
ASBC Newsletter December 2011 2011 was a year of great expansion for ASBC. The Council established itself as a credible and effective national organization able to engage on a range of policy issues. We now have 45 organizational members which in turn represent more than 100,000 businesses and more than 200,000 individual entrepreneurs, owners, [...]
LOHAS Asia Forum 2012 Set to Land in Singapore
Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, one of Asia’s fastest-growing market segments, will bring consumers and businesses together at a three-day event. SINGAPORE – LOHAS Asia, an organisation dedicated to lifestyles of health and sustainability, will host an exciting three-day networking and marketing forum in Singapore from 28 February [...]
Caterpillar Foundation Awards Major Support to WRI for Sustainable Cities Initiative
Caterpillar Foundation's 5-year pledge of US$12.5 million will focus on key urban centers in China, India and Brazil. WRI intends to develop low-carbon city models and pathways for environmentally sustainable urbanization (ESU), and to promote the diffusion of environmentally smart and livable cities. WRI will partner with up to five urban centers [...]
Durban Delegates Briefed on Rio+20 Preparations
Durban Delegates Briefed on Rio+20 Preparations 7_December 2011: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Secretariat and Brazilian Government organized a "Briefing on Rio+20 Preparations" on the sidelines of the Durban Climate Change Conference. continued... UNGA [...]
The Blue Economy News 74
The Blue Economy – Report to the Club of Rome 100 innovations – presented weekly over 2 years Dear Reader, more and more academic institutions are turning their attention on sustainable production processes which preserve the available resources and the environment. These days we are happy that the UNPHU University at Santo Domingo, [...]
Policies for Mobilizing Nature-based Adaptation Action in Africa
Policies for Mobilizing Nature-based Adaptation Action in Africa Organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Trevor Sandwith, IUCN, talked about IUCN projects on a climate change, mountain ecosystem and development. He underscored that we are at the threshold of learning about climate change issues, such as the [...]
