Tag: Sustainability

  • Aluminum Manufacturer “Goes Green”

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    Aleris Corporation is an innovator in “going green” in the aluminum manufacturing industry.  In his interview with Kathleen Hoffelder of CFO magazine, Sean Stack, executive vice president and CFO of Aleris, talks about the company’s manufacturing model and how it works with customers to promote its aluminum sustainability efforts. Aleris Corp., a privately-held aluminum manufacturer based…

  • Hindustan Unilever Committed to Growth with Societal Good

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    Unilever launched its Sustainable Living Plan in 2010 and continues to promote it through its international subsidiaries. Nitin Paranjpe CEO of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) is passionate about the program and affirmed his commitment to it in a recent interview with The Economic Times. Paranjpe recognizes “that business has a larger purpose and our purpose cannot be just making…

  • Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills

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    Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers.  Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…

  • Sea Pact Launched to Advance Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

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    Worldfishing and Aquaculture highlights Sea Pact, a coalition formed by six North American seafood suppliers to advance environmentally sustainable fisheries  and aquaculture practices. The six companies – Albion Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co. – are striving to… provide the building blocks of a…

  • This Week’s Rant

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    Under the category “Sustainability”, I find endless titles like: Sustainability is a “commerical imperative” – with a £1000bn reward The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)  counts Unilever, P&G, GM, Nestle, Coca-Cola, BP, Monsanto and Shell among its members. Ratings and rankings: How competition promotes corporate sustainability Here’s an interesting quote from Ratings and rankings: “At Ingersoll…

  • Researchers to analyse sustainability of wild caught fish

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    NORWAY  Tuesday, July 02, 2013, 23:10 (GMT + 9) In the course of the next three years researchers from three countries will analyse variables related to sustainability of wild caught fish. The idea is that everything from fuel consumption and economic considerations to the impact on local communities will be calculated, as will the welfare of…

  • Telecoupling – A Holistic Understanding of Sustainability

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    Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability highlights a recent study by  led by Jianguo “Jack” Liu, Michigan State University’s Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability: In the new issue of Ecology and Society, Liu, director of MSU’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), and his colleagues lay the groundwork to understand how an action…

  • No sustainable development without environmental sustainability and decent work

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    The contribution of the world of work to the greening of the economy is critical – and presents a real opportunity – to realize the ILO’s social goals, concludes the ILC Committee on Sustainable Development, Decent Work and Green Jobs. 19 June 2013.  GENEVA – For the first time in the ILO’s near century-long history,…

  • Sustainability a priority as forestry sector plans way forward.

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    BY ALF JAMES SUSTAINABLE development is integral to the success of the forestry business, according to Viv McMenamin, Mondi’s director: land and forestry. She says a sustainable plantation forest aims to maintain ecosystem functionality at a landscape level, conserve high conservation value ecosystems, enhance local welfare and be financially profitable by: • identifying and protecting…

  • Silicon Valley code-hackers team up to promote sustainable meat production

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    Patrick May, of the Mercury News, writes about an interesting event that took place last weekend: “Hack//Meat Silicon Valley,” advertised as a way for “leading technologists, entrepreneurs and sustainable food insiders to ‘re-imagine the future of meat,’”went like this: Sponsors issue a set of challenges to come up with ways to advance sustainable ranching and…