Carrotmob aims to gives people the power to make the world a better place by influencing how businesses operate. Instead of organizing boycotts, carrotmobbers offer to spend money as a group if a business agrees to make a socially responsible change.
There’s already been over 175 campaigns all over the world and now it’s looking to do the same thing with big companies!
As part of its “plans to halve its environmental footprint while doubling its size, Unilever Australia is appointing every staff member as its new Head of Sustainability”, reports Sustainable Life Media.
According to the story, every employee will receive “a personalized ‘Head of Sustainability’ business card, along with a ‘job manual’ outlining Unilever’s business case for sustainability and why each employee has been given the new title.”
There will be 602.7 million smart meters installed throughout the world by 2o16, according to research firm Berg Insight. That represents a compound annual growth rate of 26.6 percent between 2010 and 2016.
Sustainable is the latest buzzword in fisheries management and seafood retailing. But with experts predicting that fish stocks will be gone by 2048, can any commercially exploited marine species be classed as truly sustainable?
It will take 48 billion dollars a year to provide the world’s poorest people with electricity, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. America spends about the same money each year feeding its pets.
people are beginning to remember that organisms in the rest of the natural world are doing things very similar to what we need to do, but they’re doing it in a way that has allowed them to live gracefully on this planet for millions of years.
if we can’t help create sustainable communities where we operate, we won’t have a sustainable business. It needs to be embedded in your business as opposed to inserted in your corporate social responsibility report.
All the cool kids love Pop-up. Temporary installations that surprise and delight and remind us of what is possible. Pop-up shops appear in disused spaces. Pop-up restaurants give us a brief break from our usual range of local eateries.
How far can this situationist approach be taken? The “Better Block” project is using it to inspire communities to reclaim their urban space. So far it has created pop-ups ranging from a children’s art studio to a flower market. In the language of Pop-up, every empty space is an opportunity waiting to be filled.
When plastic is recycled, all manner of products made from it. But, the reality is 75% of post consumer plastic waste is still sent to landfill. So anything that reduces that is de facto A GOOD THING. Right?
Yes, but it gets a bit confusing when that thing reduces the plastic by turning it back into oil, ready to be used again, with all the climate related effects that implies?
According to Vadxx, the company behind the innovation, each unit it installs reduces landfill deposits by 10,000 to 14,000 tins a year. And this in turn reduces dependency on foreign oil. So until renewable energies scale up to the degree necessary to meet all our needs, it seems this sort of energy from waste solution maybe just what is needed to fill the gap. It certainly beat drilling the Arctic, which the Obama administration approved on September 5th.
After the success of their much emulated Velib bike hire scheme, the french capital has started a trial of an electric car hire scheme, hoping to have 3,000 cars being shared on the streets of Paris by the end of 2012.
Or something. At least I avoided the pun on Cereal Killers. Anyway, loving this infographic on the corporate development of cereal.
Forget biofuels, could this be the first sign of a truly green aviation industry?
“The Elektra One, flies using only electrical power, and charges its batteries in a solar powered hanger. Even the wings of the plane feature solar panels, which provide the juice needed for a little extra range. Unlike any other plane at the show, or any other plane its size in the world; the Elektra One is totally emissions neutral.”