Good best practice: Unilever uses social networking to provide clean drinking...
I felt that it was time for a good best practice example again. Today I wanted to point you to some of the latest Unilever engagement: This time about how Unilever Teams Up With Facebook To Switch On...
View ArticleGreenpeace campaign “Clean Apple’s Cloud” is a success and now includes...
I am sure Apple and Greenpeace did not have a good relationship over the past months. Part of the reason has been that Greenpeace started a petition campaign to protest against Apple powering its...
View ArticleList of German CSR / Sustainability consultancies
I have taken some time today to research current Sustainability / CSR consultancies based in Germany and came to an interesting conclusion in my view. High number of consultancies for a fairly small...
View ArticleConsultation for new guidance for businesses to report their sustainability...
Several days ago Defra, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, started its consultation on guidelines to help businesses that want to demonstrate their corporate sustainability...
View ArticleHow to use the slow summer period to engage your readers
A lot of website experts say that the summer is usually a bad time for blogs to attract a large number of visitors. It sometimes seems that everyone has summer holidays and it is more than...
View ArticleVideo: The voices of China’s workers
This is a very interesting video on the topic I raised in my earlier post about the CSR / Sustainability and Human Rights issues within Apple. Your iPad and iPhone is being manufactured by Chinese...
View ArticleA salute to all Sustainability entrepreneurs
I am currently sitting in the lounge of a client of mine working away on a contract, answering emails and when all of this is done I will start over in order to move forward with the vision I have for...
View ArticleStep 1 in starting our first very own CSR / Sustainability report
I am running a small business and decided to embarked on the journey to collate, write and publish our first ever CSR / Sustainability report in 2013. This in itself is quite a challenge. We are...
View ArticleThe Global 100 ranking: Yet another ranking?
Through a tweet from a person I follow on Twitter I came across this new ranking today called: ‘Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World’. The Toronto based research company Corporate...
View ArticleMoving Sustainability best practice to the next level of development
The last year has been very busy in my life and I did not spend as much time working on Sustainability topics as I would like to have done. During 2013 I started to refocus on Sustainability topics....
View ArticleClosing the forum: Learning what works and what does not
I recently added a discussion forum to my site with the intention to provide a community for sustainability practitioners across the globe a place where we can be sure to have quality content and meet...
View ArticleMy two blogging principles
I have been blogging on my personal website since 2008 and must admit I did not really know what I wanted to write about when I started it. It all changed when I got the first comments and I needed to...
View ArticleIntroducing the new commenting system
I have been looking for a better commenting system for my blog for a longer time now. I was and still am a big fan of Disqus but the recent plugin update somehow did not work for me anymore. So I set...
View ArticleAll the links for the 2013 GRI Conference
One of the biggest Sustainability / CSR conferences has started in Amsterdam today. The GRI Global Conference on Sustainability and Reporting today opened it gates until Friday evening. Although I am...
View ArticleGrit and Sustainability
Grit is a trait that we should all have more of when we talk about promoting Sustainability in my view. Grit is about making sure that we all stick to our commitment to make this world a better place....
View ArticleFairPhone – My next mobile phone
I am always complaining about my iPhone I have to admit. Although I am writing on a Mac and own an iPhone I have a very strong view about the lack of transparency and irresponsible business practice of...
View ArticleIs your business ready for the CSR challenge?
This is the question and a business friend asked me a few days ago. Being a owner of a small business I answered in a very direct way: “NO my business is not ready for the CSR challenge. And it...
View ArticleInteresting Sustainability articles I found this week so far
I come across of a lot of interesting Sustainability blogs and articles each week. Today I wanted to highlight 6 interesting blogs and articles I found interesting this week so far. Interesting...
View ArticleWhy Facebook is no longer useful to me as a blogger
I deleted my Facebook page for my blog today. The reason for this step is very simple - There has not been enough engagement on the blog’s Facebook page for a while now to justify keeping it. It has...
View ArticleNestle in Canada: Not really creating shared value
Last week I came across this story on Treehugger about Nestle and its corporate practice of drawing water from a source in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Nestle is pulling 3.6 million liters a day...
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