Carrot Mob : A new way to influence businesses

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Carrotmob aims to gives people the power to make the world a better place by influencing how businesses operate. Instead of organizing boycotts, carrotmobbers offer to spend money as a group if a business agrees to make a socially responsible change.

There’s already been over 175 campaigns all over the world and now it’s looking to do the same thing with big companies!

http://www.carrotmob.org/

Is it immoral to profit from the poor?

Unilever Australia makes every employee ‘Head of Sustainability”

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As part of its “plans to halve its environmental footprint while doubling its size, Unilever Australia is appointing every staff member as its new Head of Sustainability”, reports Sustainable Life Media.

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There will be 602.7 million smart meters installed throughout the world by 2o16, according to research firm Berg Insight. That represents a compound annual growth rate of 26.6 percent between 2010 and 2016.

Certified sustainable: A recipe for disaster?

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Sustainable is the latest buzzword in fisheries management and seafood retailing. But with experts predicting that fish stocks will be gone by 2048, can any commercially exploited marine species be classed as truly sustainable? 

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(via marine-science)

point in time #16

It will take 48 billion dollars a year to provide the world’s poorest people with electricity, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. America spends about the same money each year feeding its pets.

"people are beginning to remember that organisms in the rest of the natural world are doing things very similar to what we need to do, but they’re doing it in a way that has allowed them to live gracefully on this planet for millions of years."
– Biomimicry consultant Janine Benyus, TED Talk. More at Ecotrope. (via earthfix)

"if we can’t help create sustainable communities where we operate, we won’t have a sustainable business. It needs to be embedded in your business as opposed to inserted in your corporate social responsibility report."
– Muhtar Kent, CEO Coca Cola, in an interview with the Harvard Business Review

Better Block helps communities build better communities

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All the cool kids love Pop-up. Temporary installations that surprise and delight and remind us of what is possible. Pop-up shops appear in disused spaces. Pop-up restaurants give us a brief break from our usual range of local eateries.

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