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The Challenges & Ethics behind CSR Credits: Readers ...

Written By Aman Singh Das
Published On February 27, 2010 in
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I've been having two very interesting debates this past week here on Sustainability Forum about Wal-Mart's Sustainability Index and separately on India's business leaders mulling creating some sort of a quan ...
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Responding to Climate Change - an integral approach ...

Written By floriankaefer
Published On February 19, 2010 in
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We love our climate - and yet we fear it, writes Mike Hulme in his recently published book "Why we disagree about climate change" (Cambridge Univers ...
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Confusion & Doubts Face Wal-Mart as it Ponders Sust ...

Written By Aman Singh Das
Published On February 24, 2010 in
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Amongst all the talk of "greenwashing" and the viral nature of the internet spreading a lot of unverified info on
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A CSR (Stock) Exchange: The Case for Doing Good as an E ...

Written By Aman Singh Das
Published On February 23, 2010 in
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Heard the phrase before that if you know how to sell, you can pretty much sell anything? Here's the latest commodity up for sale: CSR. Making it a quantified trading credit is up for debate in India and seem ...
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How Many Meals Per Gallon?

Written By Chris Milton
Published On February 19, 2010 in
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Monday's Guardian carried the piece "
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The Avatar of planet earth - fighting UK based mining c ...

Written By floriankaefer
Published On February 18, 2010 in
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Have you watched the three hours long movie Avatar? If so, you will be fairly familiar with its breathtaking special effects ...
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Upsetting the offset - the political economy of carbon ...

Written By floriankaefer
Published On February 13, 2010 in
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Upsetting the offset - the political economy of carbon markets is a book edited by Steffen Böhm and Siddhartha Dabhi from Essex University, UK. A collection of critical essays and case studie ...
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The Potential Brutality of CSR

Written By Chris Milton
Published On February 12, 2010 in
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There's a reason I've not put any picture with this post: because there's a video at the bottom. I think you should watch this video.  It's just over seve ...
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Two sides of the same coin? 9+1 differences between the ...

Written By ARaudaskoski
Published On February 12, 2010 in
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What makes a university’s CSR different from that of a private company? Or are they that different? CSR is still a fairly new agenda in the Higher Education sector and not that many UK universities have th ...
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Sustainable Olympics - Oxymoron or Reality?

Written By floriankaefer
Published On February 6, 2010 in
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There is no doubt that the 2012 Olympics in London will become the English sporting event of the decade. Partly as marketing push, partly as serious attempt to lead technology, organisers proud ...
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