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Current Do-Good Business Climate Breathes New Life into Corporate Philanthropy
12/22/2011By Mike Hannigan To speculate on the future of corporate philanthropy, it helps to first consider the recent past. In the…
Read MoreFreight Farms Allow Anyone to Grow Food Anywhere in Recycled Shipping Containers
12/22/2011by Tafline Laylin, The Boston-based founders of Freight Farms have found an urban farming solution that can work anywhere and for just about…
Read MoreGoat: The Other (Sustainable) Red Meat
12/22/2011By Millie Milliken Last spring marked the end of an era as the National Pork Board rebranded pork by replacing the…
Read MoreDemocratic Republic of Congo bans text messaging
12/22/2011After a controversial presidential election that saw Joseph Kabila retain the office amid fierce protests, the Democratic Republic of Congo has shut…
Read MoreOut of Africa to Out of Arabia
12/22/2011Dienekes and Greg Cochran have been talking about this possibility for a few years. But a combination of archaeological finds and the…
Read MoreWill Russia’s Ban on Harp Seal Skins End Canada’s Annual Mass Clubbings?
12/21/2011by Alex Davies, In 2009, Russia banned the hunting of baby harp seals. Now the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the…
Read MoreRussia Spills 5 Million Tons of Oil, Equivalent to 6 BP Disasters, Every Year
12/21/2011by Brian Merchant Russia, it turns out, sucks at more things than not killing journalists. It also sucks at not spilling…
Read MoreNorth Face Cuts GHGs 7.5%
12/21/2011The North Face reduced its GHG emissions by 7.5 percent in 2010, from 0.303 MT to 0.281 MT CO2e per thousand units sold,…
Read MoreCareer Trends in Energy and the Environment
12/21/2011The UN has declared 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All and a growing demand for professionals within…
Read MoreMajor Gaffes and Gaps Plague CSR Reports, Study Finds
12/21/2011Incorrect and irrelevant data, unsubstantiated figures and major gaps abound in company CSR reports, according to a forthcoming study from the…
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