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Baxter the Kiwi Goes Bush -With a Little Help from SGS

With the help of industry giant SGS, a kiwi chick named Baxter was returned to his home patch of bush on the Coromandel’s Kuaotunu Peninsula recently after a successful captive rearing period.    Baxter left his burrow as a three day old wild-hatched chick on 27 January 2012. He was ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Conservation, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Wildlife, Sustainability

Mark Solomon Joins Pure Advantage Trustees

Pure Advantage, the organisation developing the business case for green growth, welcomes Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Kaiwhakahaere (Chairman) Mark Solomon, to its list of high-profile trustees. Solomon hails from Kaikoura and is of Ngāti Kuri and Ngāi Tahu descent.  Pure Advantage Chairman, Rob Morrison, says it is essential to ... keep reading

Written by Celsias last month, about Climate Change, Corporate Citizenship, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Sustainability

When is it Okay to Say You Are Green?

I work in an office and, like most offices we do a lot of printing. Does that make us environmentally unfriendly? What if we had a policy of printing only when absolutely necessary, two pages per sheet and double-sided? Would we then be entitled to claim we are sustainable? Or ... keep reading

Written by Sebastien Aymeric, James & Wells last month, about Advertising, Advertising and regulatory advice, Branding, Consumerism, Corporate Citizenship, Industry & Business, Intellectual Property, Law, Lifestyle & Behavior, Sustainability (4 comments)

Californian Jail with an Eye to the Future of Energy

The Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif., has  teamed up with Chevron Energy Solutions to create its own microgrid, as the San Francisco Chronicle has reported The jail is a major user of power, and pays around $3million for its annual utility bill. And with security systems everywhere depending on ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in March, about Clean Tech, Climate Change, Corporate Citizenship, Green energy, Solar, Sustainability

NZers Charitable Donations Have Doubled in Past Six Years

New Zealanders have doubled their donations to charitable causes in the past six years, a new report has revealed.   The ‘Giving New Zealand’ Philanthropic Funding Report 2011’,  commissioned by Philanthropy New Zealand, shows that New Zealanders gave about $2.67 billion to charitable and community causes during 2011, compared to ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in March, about Charity, Children and Families, Corporate Citizenship, Finance & Money

Is Deepwater Horizon the New Ecuador

Nearly two years after the worst accidental offshore oil spill in the history of the energy industry, some of the biggest companies in the world are busy pointing their legal fingers at one another in court over who has to pay what in claims, damages and fines over the deadly ... keep reading

Written by Daniel Graeber in February, about Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Corporate Citizenship, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business, Law, Ocean, Politics & Government, Pollution

Ikea Swaps Its Shipping Pallets for Cardboard Ones

  This month, Swedish retailer IKEA is replacing its wooden shipping pallets with a thinner, lighter and cheaper alternative made from corrugated cardboard. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that the company uses 10 million pallets to ship its goods to 287 stores in 26 countries. The new cardboard pallets will be able to ... keep reading

Written by Emma Hutchings/ PSFK in January, about Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Industry & Business, Innovation (6 comments)

US Quakes Linked to Fracking

  A 4.0-magnitude quake on Saturday afternoon was centered near Youngstown, reported the U.S. Geological Survey and the Ohio Earthquake Information Center It was the 11th over the last eight months in Mahoning County, all within two miles of the injection wells, he said.    The earthquake at 3:05 ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in January, about Coal & Oil, Corporate Citizenship, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Earthquake, Industry & Business

Red Sheds Show Green Credentials

The Warehouse has released its 11th annual Community and Environment Report which tracks its performance with respect to community and environmental measures.     Highlights of the report include Quality Assurance and in store service improvements for customers, continued reductions in the use of non-essential plastic bags, advances in its Ethical ... keep reading

Written by Celsias in December 2011, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Lifestyle & Behavior, Retail

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