Guess what we saw at Yves Rocher Subang Parade?

In conjuction with its 50th anniversary, Yves Rocher has pledged to one million of the proposed one billion trees under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative, “Plant for the Planet: Billion Trees Campaign”. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

The Story of Cosmetics

Annie Leonard, of the Story of Stuff project, will be releasing of The Story of Cosmetics, which claims to expose the USD50 billion cosmetics industry’s use of toxic chemicals in everything from lipstick to baby shampoo-even chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

CSE Joins the UN Global Compact Leaders’ Summit

The United Nations Global Compact hosted its tri-annual Leaders’ Summit in New York, USA on 24 June 2010. Chaired by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, the UN Global Compact Leaders’ Summit brought together more than 1,000 selected leaders from all sectors to enhance the role of responsible business and investment. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

Research Into Renewable Resources In Butyl Rubber Production

International producer of synthetic rubber, Lanxess, has invested in US biofuel and biochemical company, Gevo, Inc. as part of a proposed cooperation to produce isobutene from renewable resources. The companies aim to find an alternative route to source isobutene, a key raw material needed in the manufacturing of butyl rubber. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

BP Only Provides What the World Demands

By Ingrid E. Newkirk

BP has more than the loss of human life, livelihoods and tourism to answer for. And so do the government inspectors who allowed this corporation—as seemingly greedy as the bankers whose careless conduct has resulted in similar destruction—to put profit over safety. But this British company, operating all over the world, is providing a service that not only jet setters but anyone using plastics from Manchester and Miami to Milan and Mumbai demands. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

Oil Spills: A Threat to Business As Usual

By Abdul Rahim Bin Abdullatif, Co-Founder of Eco Leadership.

US President Obama said in an interview that he would have sacked BP CEO Tony Hayward for his comments on television that the Gulf spill would be “very very modest” over 50 days ago. The explosion on the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which killed 11 people resulted in the spewing of oil into the ocean is still at a rate of about 20 to 40 thousand barrels a day; until recently where BP announce that they have manage to collect 90% of the oil by installing a containment device. Latest figures show that at least 40 million gallons of crude oil has already poured into the Gulf, making the disaster almost four times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

Devastation In The Gulf: Learning From the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (Pt. 2)

By Nathaniel Payne (Simon Fraser University & Justmeans.com)

Balancing the Risks

As Asian societies develop, governmental and private sector leaders are required to make significant decisions regarding the use and pursuit of natural resources. Governments face tough decisions regarding access to resources, mimetic and normative pressures from neighboring countries as well as private businesses to allow the capable organizations to pursue and harvest natural resources in challenging locales. Read more

Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Facebook Reddit Stumble This Post

Next Page »