September 2008
Geneva, 4 September 2008 — IUCN Joins Forces with Businesses for World Conservation Congress : The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has joined forces with...
We are increasingly witnessing the real cost of our civilization's lifestyle. This section is dedicated to just this. How much our own comfort impacts the sustainable development and what impact...
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The goal of the Open Sustainability Network is to build a unified collection of relevant online tools and practices to help students and teachers build effective programs in appropriate...
This company came to my attention as I received one of the many newsletters I am suscribed to and I thought I would investigate their supply chain as well as their product itself.
Unfortunately it...
What Gets Measured Gets Done - WBCSD Launches Measuring Impact Framework
Geneva, 28 July 2008 - Business knows that "what gets measured gets done." In this spirit, the World Business Council for...
The WBCSD approach to measuring impact:
In the spring of 2006, the WBCSD embarked on a two-year effort to develop a framework to assess the contribution of business to the economic and broader...
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Determine the scope and depth of the overall assessment in terms of geographical boundary and types of business activities to be assessed.
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) brings together some 200 international companies in a shared commitment to sustainable development through economic...
High fuel prices are pushing car drivers to follow haulage firms and cut their costs and emissions.
Spy in the Cab — Vehicle Monitoring Systems
Telematics is the use of computer systems in...
W3C provide a good tutorial here; now does that work, it is what I will try to find out.
The Climate Neutral Network is an alliance of companies and organizations committed to developing products, services, and enterprises that have a net-zero impact on global warming.
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Environmental Finance, 24 July 2008 - Information on carbon emissions is not filtering through organisations as well as other key business data, according to a guide on ‘best practice' carbon...
Growing a Healthy Future for B.C. Families
Agriculture has always been and will always be an essential part of the lives of British Columbians. The B.C. Agriculture Plan: Growing a Healthy Future...
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Eat local and also support your local farmers. Fresh from the earth and grown in your community - nothing gets better than that.
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Fort Collins Farmers Market is a growers market supplemented with specialty processed goods. Since our space is limited at both of our locations, we do our best to offer you, the customer, a...
23-January-2008 - Sylvain Martel
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Every Wednesday from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM come and enjoy visiting over 20 vendors and listen to the live music of local talents in the earth of Surrey Central.
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Vancouver Farmers Markets (otherwise known as Your Local Farmers Market Society) is about people who love fresh food at festive gatherings. With the initial goal in 1995 to create the fun...
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A dream born in Kenya has become a charitable organization of hopeful young people uniting as the Otesha Project. Otesha, which means "reason to dream" in Swahili, was created to mobilize youth to...
Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development. Appropedia helps us sustain our world. Learn more at our Mission page. The...
I found this information on the Mountain Equipment COOP (MEC) web site:
Making polyester from virgin or recycled material, requires a chemical process involving a catalyst. The most common catalyst...
July 15, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
We all have a pretty good idea by now what is the 21st century biggest threat to huma kind; the global warming cause by the depletion of the ozone layer and the...
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation aiming to create a lasting relationship between shareholders and corporations regarding the implications for...
This 28 page special report, sponsored by ASDA, provides an insight into the technological challenges faced by major organisations in “going green” and keeping costs down.
Can companies use...
When it comes to urban transportation, ingenuity is the key to cleaner, greener, and smarter cities.
The World Resource Institute (WRI) have article on their web site treating how people move in...
Transportation must be the most studied subject when comes to sustainability. Whether it is to move people or move goods around the world, our transportation decisions can have a significant impact...
What is the real ecological footprint of your consumption decisions? Do we really see what lies behind an organic produce or the cheese we bought at Whole Food market or what is the impact of...
Material Flows in the United States: A Physical Accounting of the U.S. Industrial Economy
This report analyzes WRI’s material flow dataset by economic sector, identifies the environmental...
bluesign® is an independent textile industry standard. its vision is to is to put a reliable and proactive tool at the disposal of the entire textile production chain – from raw material and...
1% For the Planet is a growing global movement of almost 1000 companies that donate 1% of their sales to a network of over 1500 environmental organization worldwide. Their mission is Use market...
What is CSR? As defined by Industry Canada:
Corporate social responsibility is necessarily an evolving term that does not have a standard definition or a fully recognized set of specific criteria....
The biggest challenge for producers of lumber, paper and other forest products will be adapting to an expected cap on carbon dioxide emissions, the World Resources Institute report...
My interest for environmentally friendly comes far from the first time I heard about "Hemptown" which is now HT Naturals in Vancouver, BC. However, I recently bought a bamboo t-shirt from them and...
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According to industry experts, organizations that systematically manage the life cycle of their IT assets will reduce the cost per asset by as much as 30% in the first year alone. Yet...
While trying to find a specific book the other day, I found myself researching bookstores over the phone. While the usual search engines can actually give you a listing by "book store" or "used...
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Today's organizations face a tough set of challenges. Markets around the world have become increasingly volatile. Competition is more intense. Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures...
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IDC has found a direct correlation between effective document management and improved business performance. Yet recent research reveals that half of organizations rate their document...
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What sales is has not changed. How sales are accomplished is changing radically. In this first of a two-part whitepaper, we present an overview of the state of sales today, supported by...
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Successful business intelligence implementations can unlock key information within a company’s data vaults and enable organizations to operate more effectively and profitably....
Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can...
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Dashboards help organizations make better business decisions. The way in which they are created is not trivial and attention must be paid to the details. Employing visual design...
This paper provides insight into the top four worst practices for business intelligence. It also provides guidance on how to avoid or overcome worst practices in order to tap into the true power of...
The Impact
The Web continues to evolve. The excitement of the Web as a business platform has spurred tremendous growth in Web products and services that fall under the Web 2.0 umbrella. Today,...
February 25, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
I have been following the forums for sustainability lately and I grow pretty frustrated the way medias are in such a hurry to bring up new sustainable solution...
The TWI programs or Training Within Industry were originally an American measure of war. When the World War II started, the American government put together a task force which mission was to find a...
Leadership Secrets Of The Salvation Army
Robert A. Watson — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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The Salvation Army's business model which was qualified by Peter Drucker, on of the world's...
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With the surge of todays technologies leading up to the collapse of political borders and commodities trend to become more and more easy to access on a global market, the Industrial...
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott & Anthony William — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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The Wikinomics is described by the authors as the new mass...
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Part of the Popular Culture and Philosophy Collection, Bullshit and...
The World is Flat 3rd Edition (2007)
Thomas L. Friedman — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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Three times Pulitzer and author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), The Lexus and the Olive Tree...
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the...
Into The Wild
Jon Krakauer — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the...
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At today's pace of changes organization have an increasing need to master how they are managing their projects. Project Management, which is the practical way of ensuring that projects...
The Gift of Athena
Joel Mokyr — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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From the publisher: The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding...
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I am in the middle of reading Joel Mokyr's book The Gifts of Athena and a wealth of ideas are burgeoning in my little brain. Joel Mokyr is Professor of...
Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen
Alan G. Robinson — Reviewed by Sylvain Martel
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From the publisher Corporate Creativity consistently connects...
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January 29, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
I remember back in the early 90's when I was certificate in Industrial Ingineering, the new business trend was Total Quality Management (TQM) or the management...
January 27, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
Contribution Value Matrix
As I mentioned in my Recent Blog, We need to define a Contribution Value Matrix.
This project is the first one that should be...
January 27, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
One of the First reasons I started SMARTCO Project is to actually study what are the possibilities mass collaboration at this level can be advantageous for...
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24 January, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
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January 18, 2008 - Sylvain Martel
For first blog I decided to talk about two books I recently read, Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen, (Berrett-Koehler, San...
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