Corporate Knights
The Canadian Magazine for Responsible Business. The mission of Corporate Knights is to humanize the marketplace: By making it easier … Continue reading Corporate Knights
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Better Business, Better World
Founded in 1995, CBSR is a business-led, non-profit CSR consultancy and peer-to-peer learning organization that provides its members with candid … Continue reading Better Business, Better World
Hinterland Who’s Who – Beaver
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Synopsis: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are … Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
The Greening of Politics – Alternatives Journal Call For Proposals
With the likes of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Woody Harrelson, Justin Trudeau and Sarah Harmer climbing aboard the green bandwagon, could Steven Harper be far behind? If Elizabeth May (the Green
Party?s new celebrity leader) participates in all-candidates debates, will environmental issues heat up in the next election? Whether the Liberals select Michael Ignatieff (who has proposed a selective carbon tax) or Stephan Dion (aka Mr. Kyoto), can the environment fail to permanently catch hold?
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SD Webworks
SD Webworks?an online community sharing knowledge about using the Internet more effectively toward the achievement of sustainable development. Many of … Continue reading SD Webworks
Time to ban high-seas bottom trawling
It?s easy to tune out all those bad news stories about what?s going on in our oceans. After all, when you look out over the water, it seems like everything?s fine ? same as it ever was. But look beneath those waves and it?s a different story.
Our out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality has prevented us from really catching on to what human activities are doing to marine life ? including important species we depend on for food. Nations, industries and individuals all get away with doing things to our oceans that people would never put up with on land.
Who Killed the Electric Car?
With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption … Continue reading Who Killed the Electric Car?
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have … Continue reading AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Nominations now open for 2006 Sustainability Awards
The Fraser Basin Council welcomes nominations for the 2006 Sustainability Awards. These awards celebrate the achievements of the most inspired … Continue reading Nominations now open for 2006 Sustainability Awards
Environment minister delivers death sentence to owls
One may be the loneliest number, but 17 is rapidly becoming one of the saddest. That’s how many Northern Spotted Owls are left in Canada, and a recent decision by the federal environment minister all but guarantees that they will be the last of their kind in our country.
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Over 650 Businesses pledge not to use Kimberly-Clark tissue products
(August 22, 2006) Greenpeace today announced that more than 650 businesses in North America and from around the world are refusing to use tissue products made with pulp from ancient forests by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The businesses, which were featured in an ad in the New York Times today, are calling on the company to use more recycled fiber and pulp from sustainable logging operations in its products including Kleenex brand facial tissue. The company has been implicated in the destruction of North America?s largest ancient forest, the Boreal, which is home to endangered species and essential in combatting global warming pollution.
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