Assume the role of President of your local catchment care group. You have been granted government funding for the purpose of implementing a management plan for your local stream so that it can operate at maximum health and sustainability. Funding will be allocated over a period of five years. The first instalment of funding will [...]
Intro, "The Global Solution":
Steve tried to focus under the harsh CFLs that were giving him a headache. He had to finish a work assignment at home because his job at the Sustainability Inc. closed early due to energy costs. He was getting very tired and his nose was running because of the regular aerial innoculations [...]
Maroc Telecom was one of the first operators in the world to use the sun to power its base stations, enabling remote villages to get connected.
Telecom Report is an online magazine that looks at trends and issues in the telecom business. Brought to you by Ericsson. Ericsson is shaping the future of mobile and broadband [...]
The White House made deep cuts in written testimony given to a Senate committee this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health risks posed by global warming, but the director agreed yesterday with administration officials who said the cuts were part of a normal review process and not [...]
we - finally! - completed our GRI report. The marathon runner -cum- task master -cum- nose on the grindweel: for this was PSN.
He speaks about how the GRI framework is an enabler for internal change towards sustainability, when you look to not drive the report to closure but to foster dialog
Duration : 0:7:58
What experiments on ecology can I do?
I need to design and carry out an experiment to investage any ecological aspect. To be presented as a scientific report.
(Last year of High school/College level).
Of course it needs to be practical and small scale (not results which take years or months).
My resources, basic labatory equipment eg. Bunsen [...]
Read some of these quotes documented.
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.” - Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have [...]
VP and Fellow, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management, talks about why sustainability is important to businesses, how forward-thinking organisations can use sustainability reporting to gain competitive advantage by focusing on the customer value proposition and how companies can measure, report and enhance their operations by bringing sustainability into their business.
Duration : 0:4:5
The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), reported that Earth has experienced five mass extinctions in 450 million years, the latest of which occurred 65 million years ago and "A sixth major extinction is under way, this time caused by human behaviour."
With more than six billion humans, Earth’s [...]
San Diego State University is bringing together the regions citizens, educators, policymakers and researchers to identify, define and address the regions most critical issues at the new San Diego State University Center for Regional Sustainability. More info: http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news.aspx?s=71396
Duration : 0:19:24
