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Continuous improvement not enough, targets now in vogue for corporate responsibility
A wave of corporate announcements of environmental targets swept the world during 2007, says a review of the year published by corporate responsibility consultancy Lifeworth. "Continuous improvement is no longer enough", says report co-author Jem Bendell. "Targets express an awareness of the scale and urgency of an issue and a willingness to engage it. Although investing in new management processes are key, making a commitment to a performance target helps add the substance," he added… Read more
18 February 2008
Foundations move toward mission related investing
A small, but growing number of foundations are stepping up to confront and fight climate change on two fronts, SocialFunds reports. First, more foundations are supporting work that mitigates climate change in their missions and as part of their charitable giving. Second, more foundations are seeing the importance of managing their investment portfolios and proxy votes to support clean energy and address climate change. However, for most foundations there is still a large disconnect between what their missions support and what their invested endowments actually support… Read more
18 February 2008
Fashion is racist: 'Ethnic exclusion' on the catwalks
Speaking at the London Fashion Week, one of Britain's leading model agents offered insight into the racial discrimination in the British fashion industry, the Independent reports. Carole White, co-founder of Premier Model Management, said that both magazines and fashion designers were reluctant to employ ethnic-minority models. "In the Eighties and Nineties, you had whole shows with black girls", Ms White said, suggesting that fashion show designers and the industry media have now regressed to an earlier, more blinkered approach. Read more. (Source: Independent)
18 February 2008
IBM launches online game challenging teenagers to help save planet from ecological disaster
IBM is launching a free multiplayer online game, PowerUp (www.powerupthegame.org), challenging teenagers to help save the planet "Helios" from ecological disaster. The game is part of IBM's TryScience initiative and will be launched at Engineer's Week 2008 opening on February 16 in Washington, D.C. The game, which can be played alone or together, features a planet in near ecological ruin where three missions for solar, wind and water power must be solved. As co-chair of this year's Engineer's Week, an annual effort to promote engineering careers to students across the world, IBM devised the 3D virtual game to engage kids and educators in engineering, energy, and diversity awareness… Read more
18 February 2008
Prince Charles backs EU in climate change 'war'
In his first speech to the European Parliament in 16 years, the Prince of Wales congratulated the Commission on its climate and energy proposals, EurActiv reports. He highlighted the 'doomsday' urgency of fighting climate change, calling on the private sector to transfer 'huge sums' to help save the planet's rainforests. The Prince also criticised the EU and other international bodies for failing to provide sufficient leadership in the fight against climate change, particularly from the point of view of citizens, who often see "nothing but argument, disagreement and prevarication"… Read more
18 February 2008
IBM and Motorola join supply chain carbon reduction group
Technology heavyweights IBM and Motorola have joined the European Supply Chain Institute's Carbon Council, GreenerComputing reports. The group, made up of government, business and non-commercial organisations, plans to research, develop and promote strategies to cut carbon emissions from supply chains. Topics it plans to address include carbon management, carbon trading, accurately measuring emissions, incentives for suppliers to reduce emissions, and automating emission monitoring and verification. Read more. (Source: GreenerComputing)
15 February 2008
Biomimicry design uses nature as guide for green innovations
The burgeoning biomimicry design movement helps companies look to the natural world to help take their business green, BusinessWeek reports. The concept of biomimicry, introduced by Janine Benyus in her 1997 book "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature", is based on the idea that the simple, elegant mechanics developed by nature often make sense in a human context, too. With concerns of sustainability coming to the fore, more and more companies are looking into the nonpolluting, energy-efficient manufacturing technologies that have evolved in the natural world over billions of years… Read more
15 February 2008
Business leaders sign Tokyo Declaration to tackle global warming and enact industry-wide change
A business group including leading companies such as Sony, HP, Nokia and Nike has come together to present the Tokyo Declaration, a joint call to tackle the urgent issue of climate change. Signing the declaration at the Climate Savers Summit 2008 held by WWF and Sony in Tokyo on 15 February, a dozen business leaders highlighted that the world's greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by more than 50 percent by 2050, and that emissions must peak and start to decline within the next 10 to 15 years in order to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius… Read more
15 February 2008
Spanish premier promises 1.2 million new jobs for women
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has promised to create 1.2 million jobs for women and pay them equivalent salaries to men if he is returned to office in March elections, AFP reports. "A woman will no longer get 20 percent less than a man for the same work, it is not acceptable," Zapatero said. Zapatero's Socialist Party said recently that economic growth would remain at around three percent over the next four years, allowing the creation of 1.6 to 2.0 million jobs by 2012… Read more
14 February 2008
Graduates from ethnic minorities are entering a wider variety of careers than ever before
In the UK, the proportion of graduates recruited from ethnic minorities rose from 15.1 per cent in 2006 to 26.7 per cent in 2007, the Independent reports on the results of a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters. "That's a massive rise," says Carl Gilleard, AGR chief executive. "What it says is that the effort a lot of employers have put into being an equal opportunities employer is paying off." Part of the change, says Gilleard, has also been down to graduates now doing what they want to do, rather than what their parents would have chosen for them… Read more
14 February 2008
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