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Here are 10 actions to save the Planet. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 10 years, csem-bmp, economics institute, endowment fund, global state, intellectual property rules, management technologies, state of emergency, sustainability framework, sustainability management, UNFCCC, world bank, world institutions, wto
You cannot outsource responsibility; responsibility is something one must take oneself. By admitting that things could be better, that a change is needed, one can become part of the change, can become physically and emotionally invested in seeing the change happen and to ensuring its success.
Tags: business claims, co2, corporate social responsibility, csem-bmp, csr, ecological sustainability, employee travel, environmental footprint, gestures, green travel, launch, masters degree, public transport, raw materials, sustainability management, taking responsibility, tax relief, travel by bus, travel service
High street retailer GAP released their fourth social responsibility report last week. Outlining the measures the company is taking to “make their clothes more sustainable” and to foster “a culture that supports responsible business practices”, the report is available online only and contains an impressive list of goals and progress against those goals. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: challenges, clothes, csem-bmp, environmental impact, environmental improvements, footprint, gap, global corporations, initiatives, masters degree, measures, responsible business practices, seminars, social responsibility, step in the right direction, street retailer, sustainability, sustainable world
Today the UK Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have published their report on Securing food supplies up to 2050: the challenges faced by the UK.
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Tags: committee report, feedstock, fertilizers, food production, food security, food transport, future generations, illegal immigrants, inquiries, organic farming, organics, pesticides, position paper, rural affairs, select committee, self sufficiency, sustainability, sustainable development commission
In ‘Fish technology’ draws renewable energy from slow water currents the University of Michigan News Service describe a machine called VIVACE (Vortex Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy).
VIVACE has also been featured recently as “Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists” by Jasper Copping of the Daily Telegraph.
The main benefits of VIVACE are that it works in lower speed currents than turbines and requires less area than wave power machines.
As well as the noted benefits, VIVACE would likely be a more cost effective, and less environmentally damaging means of extracting energy from tides in the Severn Estuary than a tidal barrage.
Tags: barrage, clean energy, daily telegraph, fish technology, michigan news, ocean currents, renewable energy, severn estuary, slow water, tides, turbines, university of michigan, VIVACE, vortex, water currents, wave power
Welcome to CSEM-BMP Comment. Here Professor Ross King, I and other senior members of CSEM-BMP Staff will be posting comment on issues we find interesting, with the intention that you may find them of interest also.
Michael Baker.
Joint Programme Director, CSEM-BMP
PS We have placed a few posts on CSEM-BMP Comment based on papers and emails that we have written over the past year, to give an indication of the type of comment you can expect here in the future.
“The future of the (Environmental and Sustainability Management) profession will involve requirements for highly developed professional management capability and technical skills, and these will need to include contracting skills to contract the resources needed to handle the many and varied responsibilities.”
Ross King, p421, ‘The Future of the Profession’, Environmental Management in Organisations, IEMA Handbook 2005
“Oh, for a magic wand…” – English saying
When a contract comes up for agreement, it normally takes someone skilled in contracting/ contract administration at least six weeks to sort out, since each round of work triggers other important thoughts and considerations. This does not mean at all that this work will consume six man-weeks. From an initial draft contract document, it encompasses successive rounds of each Party considering and responding to the other’s drafts and redrafts – and coming to a competent and amicable agreement.
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Tags: administration, contracts, negotiation
The ‘Myth of Global Warming’ is contradicted by your own and my own experience. We are facing a period of rapid climate change (CC). The science has been very heavily funded for 20 years and the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, which is the UN focus for this has commissioned thousands of studies. In my view, it is not the poodle of some sect of environmental scientists hell-bent on rail-roading the world into topping up their research budgets. This is a strange Anglo-American myth of its own amongst those who are not mainstream CC researchers.
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Tags: climate change, global warming, IPCC, myth, science, UNFCCC
Professor King and I have an on going conversation about how to measure the sustainability of a company. On a theoretical basis I hold that just like pregnancy, a company can not be partly sustainable and due to the interlinked nature of the global economy, no company can be sustainable until all companies are sustainable. However Professor King has persuaded me to his point of view that on a practical level this is not helpful. So we have been looking at a practical way of measuring the sustainability of a company.
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Tags: company, measuring, sustainability
Originally written as a guide to writing assignments, this is also applicable to writing reports and papers.
The following are five simple steps to easy report writing.
Remember the advice to Army instructors:
Commentary by Prof. Ross King and Dr. Michael Baker, Joint Programme Directors and other senior staff at CSEM-BMP.
