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Recent sustainable business news
Even after the Nike sweatshop scandals, high profile UK companies, including Gap, Next and Marks & Spencer have been reported as continuing these practices in India–with pay rates as low as 25 cents per hour. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/08/gap-next-marks-spencer-sweatshops Ecuador has proposed an innovative mechanism for making a national contribution to the control of carbon emissions. It proposes [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Monday, 16th Aug, 2010
Sustainability news items
Here are some recent sustainability news items I’ve been tracking: Emergence of Roundup-resistant weeds: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?src=me&ref=homepage Decline of North American bee populations: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse Climate science defence in open letter: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/06/climate-science-open-letter Climate policy shift: working behind emissions reduction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8673828.stm A fishery conservation success story: North Sea cod http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/sustainable-again-ndash-the-north-sea-cod-saved-by-careful-conservation-1973928.html
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Friday, 21st May, 2010
Ian Lowe’s “A Big Fix”
-1- One of the more unexpected legacies of the Howard era has been the emergence of a coterie of genuine public intellectuals; or rather, people who think for a living and have decided, because of the urgency of the times, to enter the more open eras of public discourse. They have, in fact, created a [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Tuesday, 16th Mar, 2010
Recent sustainable business & environment reports
Here are some reports and opinion pieces that have appeared in recent weeks on important developments in the world environment: 1. An important, perhaps critical, study published in Nature has estimated that the world will exceed total amount of greenhouse gas emissions beyond which dangerous climate change occurs by 2020. This contracts still further projections [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Saturday, 16th May, 2009
Australian government defence & climate confusions
I’ve spoken before about what appears to be an outbreak of split brain among the leaders of the world; that is, their apparently effortless ability to carry on with business as usual, while expressing concern about climate change effects that make business as usual untenable. The defence White Paper released this week by the Australian [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Friday, 1st May, 2009
Science, scepticism and climate change
Dr Vicky Pope, head of the climate change office at the Hadley Centre (one of the world’s most reputable sources of climate change modelling) recently wrote a thoughtful piece for The Guardian which everyone concerned with climate change should read. The Hadley Centre has been one of the research organisations consistently alerting the world community [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Sunday, 19th Apr, 2009
News story: Sustainable business in mining
Here is an article of mine in the Mining Bulletin, October 2008, on sustainable business and the mining industry. mining_bulletin.pdf
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Thursday, 9th Oct, 2008
News stories: sustainability issues
Here are some news stories, from interview and written for publication, that have appeared in local and national press recently, relating to sustainability policy. The first file reports a keynote address I gave to the peak local government. The second resulted from an interview with the Newcastle Herald in support of a community initative to [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Thursday, 18th Sep, 2008
News stories: sustainable business education
Here are some stories resulting from interviews with me that have appeared recently in the SA press concerning the UniSA’s Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business, of which I am the academic director. 111107-unisa-gcsb.pdf 131107-unisa-gcsb.pdf 230808-career-one.pdf
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Thursday, 18th Sep, 2008