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The partners of James & Wells Intellectual Property, three-time winner of the Intellectual Property Law Award, view sustainability as conducting the business in a way that maintains long term profitability, creates only positive impacts on staff and our communities, and minimises any negative impact we may have on our environment.Here ... keep reading
Written by Jonathan Lucas in September 2012, about Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Intellectual Property, Law, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (1 comment)
Johnson & Johnson —one of the largest personal care product companies in the U.S.—promised in August to remove all traces of potentially harmful chemicals, formaldehyde and 1.4 cioxane, from its entire line of consumer products by 2015. It is the first company of its kind to make such ... keep reading
Written by Julie Mitchell in September 2012, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Citizenship, Design, Education, Health, Industry & Business (3 comments)
Ernst & Young LLP has completed of a lighting retrofit project in its US headquarters in New York City. The project’s installation of energy-efficient lighting – one of New York City’s largest lighting retrofits – will cut the building’s annual energy use by approximately 2.9 million kilowatt-hours and reduce ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August 2012, about Architecture, Clean Tech, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Design, Economics, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Innovation (1 comment)
For manufacturers and marketers of New Zealand-made products, the clean green New Zealand image can be relied on to bring in sales - particularly in international markets. In the natural products industry in particular, the New Zealand image can be a huge selling point, helping to promote the purity, freshness or ... keep reading
Written by Jennifer Lucas in August 2012, about Consumerism, Corporate Citizenship, Intellectual Property, Law, marketing, Trade Marks (1 comment)
The Colour of Growth report released by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK's largest business lobby group, shows how a further push towards green growth could add more than £20 billion to the UK economy by 2014-2015. Here is the Executive Summary : With the current levels of ... keep reading
Written by CBI in July 2012, about Clean Tech, Climate Change, Corporate Citizenship, Economics, Green energy, Technology (1 comment)
Most of the top 500 companies in the world are now benchmarking themselves against their peers on climate change and carbon performance. Ernst & Young has examined how companies prepare for a transition to a low-carbon economy and the challenge of making sustainable growth compatible with business models? Key findings of ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in July 2012, about carbon certification, Carbon Sequestration, Corporate Citizenship, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Industry & Business, Sustainability, Technology
Nuclear power returned to Japan's energy mix for the first time in two months last week just hours before a parliamentary investigative commission said that the Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator. it placed blame on the ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in July 2012, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Corporate Citizenship, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Earthquake, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Politics & Government
Here's how New River ranked the top 50 companies in New Zealand according to their environmental credentials Interestingly The most common area of environmental improvement is reducing pollution 2nd most common is reducing greenhouse gas emission and the 3rd is resource recovery COMPANY RANK REVENUE GROWTH ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS SECTOR ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in July 2012, about awards, Clean Tech, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Industry & Business, Pollution, waste
Interbrand's second Best Global Green Brands report has a car brands and tech brands doing very well . There are eight car brands in the mix. Toyota tops the list and Honda comes in at number 3, with Vokswagen at number 4. Interbrand NZ managing director James Bickford said, “If ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in July 2012, about Branding, Clean Tech, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Design, Industry & Business, Innovation
Delivering on the promise to be around in 50 years time is how Sovereign defines its sustainability challenge. Sovereign became the first New Zealand signatory to the United Nations’ Principles of Sustainable Insurance, the leading edge global initiative designed to make sustainability a fundamental concern of the insurance industry. In ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in June 2012, about Climate Change, Corporate Citizenship, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Sustainability
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