Environment and climate change
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Profiles of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) practices of Philippine mining firms
The increased awareness of environmental impacts, the socio-economic implications of mining and a downturn in productivity, have highlighted the need for mining companies to adjust their business management process.
Mobilink Turns Billboards to Bags
The Mobilink Foundation, the non-profit arm of Mobilink, Pakistan’s leading cellular and Blackberry service providers, is turning plastic billboard skins into school bags for underprivileged children. The bags are distributed free of charge. This initiative is part of Mobilink’s environmental...
Diageo publishes sustainable packaging guidelines
Diageo has published its first "Sustainable Packaging Guidelines". The Guidelines represent the company's global policy on ensuring that packaging is increasingly sustainable and reflect Diageo’s commitment to a holistic approach to reducing the company's overall impact on the environment across...
The Brazil Nut Business Model: Ouro Verde's Quest for Preservation & Profit
Brazilian entrepreneur Luis Laranja's company, Ouro Verde, is part of the New Ventures initiative at the World Resources Institute. New Ventures works with small and medium enterprises that have positive environmental impacts, and helps grow environmental entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He...
SELCO makes solar-lighting accessible to poor families in India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to economically impoverished people in India. To help households access this technology, SELCO negotiated with state-owned banks to provide affordable loans to would-be purchasers.
Kopernik helps Green School to save energy
Michael Woon, a Kopernik Fellow in Timor-Leste, visited Green School in Bali not only to learn more about the school, but also to get a sense for how appropriate technology and hands on build-it and do-it lessons could be incorporated into their curriculum.
Seventh Generation and WAGES partner to form cooperative in San Francisco
Seventh Generation, an American company that distributes household and personal care products, has partnered with Women's Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES) to launch a new residential cleaning cooperative in San Francisco. Using Seventh Generation cleaning products to help protect the...
Promoting safer operations and emergency preparedness in China
Dow Chemical Company is a diversified chemical company that offers a broad range of products and services. A partnership between the ministry of environmental protection (MEP), UNEP, and Dow promotes chemical safety, emergency preparedness and safer production in the chemical sector in China....
Unilever supports recycling initiatives in Ghana
Plastic waste is growing in Ghana as sales of products packaged in plastic increases. Unilever's Tema factory sponsored the first national forum on the management of plastic waste in 2000, in collaboration with the Ghana National Packaging Cluster and the International Centre for Sustainable...
IKEA sponsors forestry scholarships
Every year, the IKEA Group supports one-year scholarships for students from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia to study forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Alnarp, Sweden. These scholarships have been arranged annually since 2001.