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07/10/2015

Breaking news -- Deal made to install UK's Largest Community Solar Power Station -- "It will become more common for businesses to supply their own energy by 2020. A survey by Vlerick Business School’s Energy Centre, in partnership with KPMG, found more than a third of energy executives in Europe believe it will be a common occurrence for customers to go off grid by 2020."

Prodrive and the Low Carbon Hub will develop a community-owned rooftop solar PV installation on Prodrive’s Banbury headquarters in early 2016. The project will ...

05/10/2015

TTP, the controversial free trade deal covering about 40% of the world economy, has now been agreed.

US, Japan and 10 other Pacific rim countries agree wide-ranging Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal - reports

04/10/2015

"Defunding Climate Change" -- good article about Climate Week NYC in the New Yorker

As renewable-energy prices fall, a new corporate shift away from fossil fuels is gaining momentum.

12/08/2015

France has just changed their laws to say that manufacturers have to say how long they expect their products to last. THIS IS AMAZING! For the first time people will be able to make a real choice when they buy something. e.g. "Do I get the £15 kettle that lasts 1 year? or the £30 kettle that lasts 5…

20/07/2015

This new book will help you create an enduring culture of integrity in your organisation, that establishes doing the right thing as the cultural norm.

DoSustainability Creating a Culture of Integrity: Business Ethics for the 21st Century [9781910174616] - SYNOPSISFor companies, unethical business practices like bribery and corruption pose major business risks, and can result in fines, reputational damage, lost business opportunity and, increasingl…

06/07/2015

Featured in Eco-Business: Dorothy Maxwell writes about a new kind of global debt crisis, due to over-borrowing from our planet's natural capital asst base. It's a different way of saying what environmentalists already know - but could the financial terminology help shift behaviour and investment from degradation to protection and restoration?

A new kind of global debt crisis is brewing - due to decades of over-borrowing from our planet’s natural capital asset base. The future shock for business is the potential for profit to be wiped out,...

01/07/2015

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24/06/2015

30th June: Business Green will host a debate with Greenpeace's John Sauven, Unilever's Pier Luigi Sigismondi, CDP's Katie McCoy and TFT's Scott Poynton (author of the Beyond Certification, available free on our website) on how to ELIMINATE deforestation from supply chains. Put forward your proposals for tackling deforestation on Twitter using

Partnering with APP, and joined by Greenpeace's John Sauven, CDP's Katie McCoy and TFT's Scott Poynton, we discuss how businesses can embrace sustainable...

24/06/2015

Q&A: Toby Webb asks Dorothy Maxwell HOW valuing natural capital can help shift behaviour from degradation to restoration. If you're interested in getting past the rhetoric to the tangible role these valuations can play in solving sustainability challenges, read on. Dorothy is the author of 'Valuing Natural Capital', published by Dō Sustainability in April 2015.

A regular blog about (un) sustainable business. A focus on practical stuff, not blue sky pretentious waffle. Around 6000 regular readers, surprisingly.

11/06/2015

We are very pleased to be able to offer you a free e-copy of our latest book, Beyond Certification by Scott Poynton. Dō Sustainability is delighted to be working with The Forest Trust, who kindly provided sponsorship, enabling us to make this book widely and easily available to all. It is a must-rea…

10/06/2015

As we're all book people here...it's good to keep up with what Amazon and its friendly critics are up to!

What would happen if we were to gatecrash their party?