DHL Express Celebrates Global Volunteer Day

DHL Express Malaysia, part of Deutsche Post DHL, a leader in postal and logistics group, marked yet another successful Global Volunteer Day initiative in Malaysia on 25 September. One hundred and sixty-nine employees took part in a home visit to Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah as part of DHL’s global drive to give back to local communities... [Read more...]

Interface, Inc. CEO Shares Five Sustainability Successes Achieved in Past Year

Interface, Inc., leader in design, production and sales of environmentally responsible modular carpet, believes that Earth Day is an important time for individuals and organizations to consider environmental impacts. The company recently revealed  highlights made over the past year in reducing its own negative impacts on the earth to demonstrate ways... [Read more...]

Putting social innovation and entrepreneurship on the business agenda

Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge John Elkington’s work advising businesses on sustainable strategies has earned him numerous accolades including the Dean of Corporate Social Responsibility by BusinessWeek in 2004. In an interview with INSEAD Knowledge, he discusses social innovation and entrepreneurship and its potential to become an increasing part of... [Read more...]

Towards nugatory for InterfaceFLOR

Interface Inc. is on a quest to reduce its carbon footprint to zero by 2020. The initiative, called “Mission Zero”, will eliminate its impact on the environment. Moreover, the global carpet manufacturer and sustainability pioneer is also calling for businesses worldwide to seek greater responsibility and transparency with environmental claims. [Read... [Read more...]

Getting down to the haze issue

The forest fires in Sumatra this year plunged haze in the spotlight – and the companies who own the land were particularly lambasted as responsible for the burning of the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest. But the finger-pointing and blame-shifting is counter-productive – for decades we have known who these ‘culprits’ are and worse,... [Read more...]

New Exchange for Social Enterprises

Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) recently came into being in Singapore. Its mission? To provide social enterprises in Asia with greater access to capital, allowing them to more rapidly expand the impact of their activities. [Read more...]  Read More →

Greening the web with Greenscroll

Webmasters and web publishers, you now have the option to go green! Greenscroll is new a nonprofit seeking to fight climate change in the real world by greening the virtual one. Its mission is to power the Internet by green renewable energy and help save the Earth. On behalf of anyone having a website, Greenscroll will pump green energy into the grid... [Read more...]

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