Archive for August 2007
Global Water Tool
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 30, 2007
Water will become an increasingly important resource to understand and manage for businesses to perform.
Joel Makower writes about a new tool to help global businesses manage their water risks.
World Water Week is upon us, an annual fete of all things H2O. The event, held in Stockholm, is the leading global meeting place for experts from [...]
CR Strategy for Toll
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 30, 2007
Bill Shannon of Shannon’s way explains how Toll Holdings used corporate responsibility strategically.
How does a company go about setting a CR strategy? The Australian Institute for Corporate Responsibility – formed by the alliance of Shannon’s Way, Deloitte and Our Community – has developed a framework based on CR initiatives in eight areas. For each, a [...]
Sugar coated fuel to be mandatory in India
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 29, 2007
The Mint reports that the Indian government is suggesting mandatory 10% ethanol mixed petrol.
In a significant move to deal with a massive oversupply of sugar that
could also give a major boost to environment-friendly fuel, a group of
ministers (GoM), headed by external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee,
has recommended that India adopt a mandatory blending of 10% ethanol
with [...]
Entrepreneurs and Small Businessmen
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 29, 2007
Micro-finance is a growing movement around the world which suggests that it can solve the poverty issue. One major example is Grameen Bank and its founder Dr. Yunus who received the Nobel Peace Prize recently. In fact, my contribution to the WorldChanging book was on Microfinance.
Reuben Abraham, a friend with whom I worked with [...]
Black Swan Moment
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 28, 2007
Can you prepare for a Black Swan? In one sense, no, at least not specifically; that’s the whole point. But you can, at a minimum, consider the degree to which your actions and procedures concerning damn near everything, and likewise those of your organizations, rest on assumptions of continuity. (Hint: They do.) Of course China [...]
The Green Entrepreneur’s Toolbox: 100 Networking Resources, Guides, and Links
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 28, 2007
Rich McIver informs me about a new resource listing by Jessica Hupp for Green Entrepreneurs.
This is a single page with 100 links to news sites, blogs, books, success stories and education material and a small qualifying commentary on each link. The resources are useful for anyone who is interested in sustainability and environmental issues.
I think [...]
The Turnbull Saga
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 28, 2007
Continuing on an earlier story on the pulp mill in Tasmania, Cousins is coming with the following ad in the Environmental minister’s electorate of Wentworth.
The pulp mill is claimed by the company to be the ”greenest in the world”; however, the only cost-benefit analysis conducted showed that it would effect the wine and tourism industries in the Tamar Valley.
As the Age reports, now some 120 people are with Cousins including [...]
Pay or Pray
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 27, 2007
Every day in the newspapers and TV shows you see the lamenting on water shortages. In a country of only 22 million people there is an increasing water shortage. How can this be possible?
The Age reports on the two possibilities:
NOT enough water? There are only two alternatives. One is to pray for rain. The other [...]
Climate resistant agriculture
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 26, 2007
Reuters reports:
Ren Wang, director for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), told Reuters that new crop varieties, such as drought-resistant rice, were crucial for securing food supply, especially as populations continue to grow.
Creating new species, which would allow farmers to adapt to increasing extreme weather conditions, is possible only via enforced partnerships, [...]
Tax incentives for Wind Farms in India
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 26, 2007
The Hindustan Times reports of the tax breaks for companies and individuals for investing in green energy, especially Wind Farms.
WORRIED ABOUT your taxes? Take a look at one way how companies and high net worth individuals are reducing theirs – by buying windmills. The income-tax laws allow 80 per cent of the cost of the [...]
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