I wanted to let you know that there will not be regular posts from this blog in the next few months. I will from now on focus on my major website SustainabilityForum.com.
If you are interested in interesting blogs about Sustainability then you will find everything you need on the SustainabilityForum.com blog section here:

http://www.SustainabilityForum.com/Blog

Or visit my personal and professional blog where I blog about Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Social Media here:

http://www.FabianPattberg.com/

See you there.

Regards,

Fabian Pattberg, Editor of SustainabilityBlog.org

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A funny end to the week. Or should I say a sad reality even though this Dilbert is obviously a lot over the top?

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The UK sustainable economy is still viable

06.07.2010 News and Resources

The coalition Government’s emergency Budget began to stabilise the public finances and lay the foundations for economic recovery. The next step is to ensure that what emerges from recession is a different kind of economy: rebalanced away from excessive reliance on household debt, property markets and banking, with prosperity spread more evenly across the country, [...]

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Good article: UK’s challenge – Finding £550bn to build low-carbon economy

30.06.2010 Climate Change

Today I would like to point you to a very interesting and very relevant article on the aspect of financing the transition to a low carbon economy. ———- If ever a time called for creative financing, now — 2010 in the UK — is the time. It’s a classic case of immovable object (the need to cut fossil [...]

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Good article: How cynicism in the media can make us lose sight of our Sustainability goal

28.06.2010 Corporate Social Responsibility

“Focussing on problems and expecting the worst will have significant repercussions on how we deal with the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.” This is the key message from an interesting article in the Guardian this week. The article author has a fair point as well. We all need to be more positive about the future [...]

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The UAE demand for water grows but the reserves are depleting

22.06.2010 News and Resources

Water will be the gold of the future. This is something several people independely told me at an environmental event I was attending several months. This story on the water resources in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A very bleak picture is what the future seems to have in store for water reserves in the [...]

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On the BP Oil Spill: What Obama should have said!

17.06.2010 Corporate Social Responsibility

A very powerful video on what Barack Obama should have said about the BP Oil Spill. Share

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Can Sustainability / CSR help with cleaning up the BP PR disaster?

14.06.2010 Corporate Social Responsibility

An interesting article on how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). I really liked this sentence: ‘It’s important to point out that CSR isn’t about crisis management’ Very true. All in all a very interesting article. ———- Back in the spring, the story of Toyota’s runaway cars looked like it would drag on for months. Then Goldman [...]

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Video: An insincere oil company

08.06.2010 Corporate Social Responsibility

Let’s hope BP are are sincere with their efforts to make it right in the Gulf of Mexico. Although sometimes it feels as if BP has been advised by people as insincere as this person played by Michael Caine: Share

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Foxconn and the need for technology companies to act more decisively

04.06.2010 Corporate Social Responsibility

The current discussion about the suicides at Foxconn are a sign of the things to come for technology companies such as Apple and HP that they need to act now to provide a higher degree of transparency within their supply. This is an interesting article from SocialFunds highlighting this challenge ahead for these companies. ——————– Since January, [...]

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