Archive for the ‘Social sustainability’ Category
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Ben and Jerry's recently held a conference in Paris to promote their line of fair-trade ice cream. Ben Cohen, the Ben behind Ben and Jerry's, discussed the economic downturn, saying that fear and greed have proven to be poor and unsustainable business practices and that we must build a ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
The popularity of sustainability reports among larger companies has increased rapidly in recent years. Back in the 1980's, only chemical companies issued "sustainability reports." Those reports were really just environmental impact reports. Today, over 50% of the Global Fortune 100 and more than 2000 companies worldwide from every imaginable ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Second-hand clothes are awesome. I don't feel a need to support that with any evidence, so I won't. In addition to being awesome, pre-owned clothes offer a surprising number of benefits to the environment, society, and your wallet.
While it is well-known that buying second-hand is much cheaper than buying new ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Unless you have been living in a cave or buying other people's misery on margin, you have probably noticed that money is a little hard to come by in the business world right now. In times like these, companies begin cutting any costs they possibly can. At Verteego, for ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
There is a lot of information out there about things we can do in our lives to be more environmentally sustainable, but there is not so much about what people can do to make their lives more socially sustainable. This is probably because social sustainability is something that most people ...
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