First Choice Holidays has a spot open for a corporate social responsibility (CSR) manager. Now doesn’t that sound good? Given that CSR is a rather all-encompassing term, the job description itself makes it reasonably hard to tell exactly what you’d be doing, but it all seems rather promising.
TreeHugger has a brief, but interesting post on how Africa might just be the source of much sustainable technology-related ingenuity. In part, this is due to its need to innovate past the host of challenges that it faces, such as a general shortage of electricity in many places. And there’
EnvironmentalGraffiti sent one of their reporters to the Heathrow protest camp this week, giving the inside view on life inside. Get the dirt on everything from heavy-handed police, the challenges of ‘consensus decision-making’ and dealing with different loos for weeing and pooing… “As we approached the footpath leading from the
BP might be dumping toxic waste in its lake, but Chicago tops the list of greenest places to locate a data centre (in the US, that is). We suppose this might have something to do with the fact that it’s called the windy city. Chicago barely beat out Quincy,
Oil company BP has been promoting its green image for some time, and apparently doing well enough to be rated as one of the UK’s top 20 green brands in one survey. (Take a look at their website to see why this might be). At the same time, it’
Greenbang’s been seeing all kinds of biofuel action lately, with plants running on everything from animal poop to confiscated booze. Now, New Zealand is joining in on the action by converting milk into biofuel, as this post highlights (tapping into a story by the New Zealand Herald). Yes, milk.
This sustainable building project is massive – it’s a design proposal from one of three architecture firms vying for the $3.4 billion San Francisco Transbay Tower project. The 1,375-foot building uses 100% outside air for optimal indoor air quality and energy efficiency and incorporates some of the latest
So as well as just designing seven cities in China, William McDonogh is up to a lot in the sustainability space. In 2002 he co-authored Cradle to Cradle, which takes a fresh look at the lifecycle end endcycle of things. According to the wonderful ideas and thinkers’ website, TED, he
Greenbang is frothing at the mouth over this one. It’s like the Great Wall of China all over again. If you’ve not yet heard of architect William McDonough, you soon will have. The Chinese government has him designing SEVEN new sustainable cities for them. He’s a genius
CHINA WATCH China’s first 1.5 megawatt (1, 500 kW) wind-power generator with completely independent intellectual property rights has rolled off the assembly line in the southern Guangdong province. The Guangdong Mingyang Wind Power Technology Company, which made the generator, proudly claimed that their price was at least 20
Business chiefs are failing to set a green example for their staff, research indicates – just look at Michael Dell driving a Hummer around town. One in five businesses is not doing enough to protect the environment, according to a survey by Zipcar. Research into the attitudes of London businesses towards
Four green barons of the business world explain how they made their fortunes in the eco space, in a piece on Reuters today. The interviews show how a couple of them have done it through carbon trading (hmm) but the other two made it via the energy game and clean
