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Nestlé and Young Conductors Award: roundtable on creativity and leadership
Leading personalities in the field of politics, culture and business attended a Nestlé-led roundtable to discuss Creativity and Leadership in Salzburg, Austria, as part of the Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award. Issues including 'How important is leadership?', 'Which qualities does a person need to be a good leader?' and 'Is creativity a crucial leadership quality for success?' were some of the questions discussed at the event on Friday, August 13th, by high-level speakers in the field of politics, culture and business… Read more
19 August 2010
New eco website to grow green business
An eco website to help people start environmentally-friendly businesses has been launched on August 13 in Ireland. The Low Carbon Entrepreneurs website is the brainchild of the Challenge Europe Project - a British Council climate change programme. The website provides information for entrepreneurs starting new businesses in the emerging green economy. "It provides an overview of the sector and provides links to more detailed information on funding and networking opportunities", said Andrea Carroll, one of the five founders of the new website… Read more
19 August 2010
Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuel
Using samples from the Glenkinchie Distillery in East Lothian, researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have developed a method of producing biofuel from two main by-products of the whisky distilling process - "pot ale", the liquid from the copper stills, and "draff", the spent grains. Copious quantities of both waste products are produced by the £4bn whisky industry each year, and the scientists say there is real potential for the biofuel, to be available at local garage forecourts alongside traditional fuels… Read more
19 August 2010
European Commission’s development of a European multilingual classification of jobs and skills
The European Commission is developing a European Skills, Competences and Occupations taxonomy (ESCO), which will describe the most relevant skills, competences and qualifications needed for several thousand occupations. ESCO will be made available to all institutions and stakeholders in the labour market and within the education sector for use in their respective systems. The detailed picture of job profiles provided through ESCO has the potential to bring benefits to both jobseekers and employers… Read more
18 August 2010
Toyota GB launches 8-step environmental plan
Following a one-year pilot study, Toyota Great Britain (TGB) has rolled-out its 8-Step Environmental Plan to their network of more than 200 retailers. The Environmental Plan aims to significantly reduce CO2 emissions at all Toyota retailers in the United Kingdom. The plan has been introduced with the support of the Carbon Trust, an independent non-profit company that was established by the UK government to accelerate the country’s move to a low-carbon economy. The pilot study was conducted during 2009 at 16 retailers… Read more
17 August 2010
Celebrities test driving skills in eco-challenge at Toyota Motor Poland
Toyota Motor Poland, in conjunction with the Toyota Driving Academy, held their second Celebrity Eco Driving Challenge on 23 July 2010. Ten local celebrities competed to see who could achieve the lowest fuel consumption. The Challenge was divided into three stages. The first stage enabled the celebrities to familiarise themselves with the Prius vehicle while receiving eco-driving training en route. The celebrities followed the Royal Route which was closed to conventional traffic for the Challenge… Read more
17 August 2010
Responsible Business Forum to conduct a research on CSR market in Poland
Responsible Business Forum and GoodBrand & Company Polska have started "Managers 500 / CSR Leader - Practitioners' Confession" research on CSR market in Poland. It is a follow-up research of the "Managers 500 and responsible business. Knowledge - approach - practice" analysis conducted in 2003 by Responsible Business Forum in cooperation with the World Bank and The Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Poland. This year's partner in the research project is international company that specializes in implementing sustainable development in companies' strategies, GoodBrand & Company Poland… Read more
17 August 2010
New ways to increase food production needed by 2050, a report by the Royal Society says
Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world's leading scientists report on August 16. In a set of 21 papers published by the Royal Society, the scientists from many disciplines and countries say that little more land is available for food production, but add that the challenge of increasing global food supplies by as much as 70% in the next 40 years is not insurmountable. Several studies suggest farmers will be up against environmental limits by 2050, as industry and consumers compete for water… Read more
17 August 2010
Trade unions focus on forced labor as an issue for sustainable investors, CWC briefing paper suggests
As a new briefing paper, entitled "Investing in Decent Work" by the Global Unions Committee on Workers' Capital (CWC) points out, there have been instances of aggressive engagement by sustainable investors in issues relating to forced labor. Addressing forced child labor in Uzbekistan, for instance, a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) formed the Responsible Cotton Network, a group that encourages socially responsible sourcing of cotton, in 2008. The Network, which includes Calvert and Boston Common Asset Management, has successfully pressured many clothing companies to exclude Uzbek cotton in their supply chains… Read more
17 August 2010
UK's first geothermal plant given go-ahead
Renewable energy from the depths of the earth could be produced in Cornwall after planning permission was granted for the UK's first commercial deep geothermal power plant. Geothermal Engineering, the company behind the project, plans to drill 4.5km into the ground to access rocks at temperatures of about 200°C. Geothermal Engineering said the plant was due to be operational by 2013 and would provide heat for the local area and enough electricity, which would be fed into the national grid, to power 20,000 homes… Read more
17 August 2010
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