It is hard to argue that industrialism didn’t improve the world. Without industrial-scale production, affordable food, clothing, medicine, transportation and communication we take for granted wouldn’t be possible...
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How to bring transparency into the supply chain
More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes from and under what conditions it is manufactured. At the same time, media pressure on companies to bring transparency...
Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Companies?
In the last 150 years, three major trends have changed the way humanity consumes. First, industrialization shifted production from self-sufficiency to consumerism. Second, ongoing economic development allowed local...
To Harvest Green Business, Feed Eco Incentives to the Decision Makers
Incentive-based pay isn’t new; it’s been around for centuries. Ship captains transporting prisoners from England to Australia were once rewarded, not on passenger counts, but on how many survived the journey...
Stayin’ Alive: Survival Strategies for 2012
If you read these lines, it is more than likely you are still alive. And if you read these lines, the date will be January 2012 or later. What do these facts mean? Well, no apocalypse has happened so far, as a matter of...
Transparency and Saving Potentials
When I read about “transparency” in the context of sustainability or sustainability management the term mostly is referring to reporting to and communication with the relevant stakeholders of businesses...
Key Elements for your Sustainable Social Media Strategy
From a corporate perspective, the relevance of Social Media within a Sustainability Strategy has been rising step by step over the last years. Undeniably, the world wide web has emerged to version 2.0. In former times...