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Following up on our first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) discussion here are the top 5 news websites all relating to CSR in my opinion:

What is CSR? Check out our previous blog entry for more information:
What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?

CSR News Websites:

1. The biggest CSR news website:
   CSR Wire
2. New CSR News Portal:
   CSR News.net
3. News section of a CSR consultancy:
   CSR Europe
4. Edie News. Keyword CSR
   Edie News on CSR
5. CSR News from China:
   CSR News China

The next CSR blog entry will be on CSR Reporting.

Have a good weekend everyone.
Fabian

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Council plans to regenerate the whole of the island and run it on low-carbon energy.
The Isle of Wight may become the world’s first “eco-island”, powered entirely by green energy, if plans being developed by the island’s council are implemented.
Under the proposals, the island would become self sufficient in low-carbon power, and could even become a net exporter of energy. Measures under consideration include tidal power and a combined heat and power plant that would run on “gasified” waste – the first in the UK.
Council leaders believe the proposals will regenerate the island and provide significant investment for infrastructure. The council is understood to be working with a firm of London architects and a leading research university to turn concepts into workable plans. It is believed that it is being advised by one of the academics who worked on Dongtan, the world’s first eco-city, in China.
Joe Duckworth, chief executive of the council, said the island was ideally placed to put the plans into effect. He said: “Politically there is huge support for this, and the private sector on the island is incredibly keen.”
Private sector companies based on the island include Vestas Blades, the largest wind turbine blade manufacturer in the UK.
Duckworth added that the island’s infrastructure was in need of investment, which meant it was an ideal opportunity to develop green solutions.
He added that the island had “a specific market tied to us so it’s a bit safer for our private sector colleagues”.
The council is already trying to improve infrastructure. It is bidding to take part in a £900m pathfinder PFI for transportation schemes. If successful, it could upgrade all the island’s roads and streets over the next 15 years.
Duckworth said new roads could be reduced to just one carriageway, with the other lane being reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.
The council is stipulating that developers bidding to regenerate a local housing scheme construct new homes to level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
It also has the funding to rebuild Cowes high school as a zero-carbon school.
Duckworth said the ideas would be worked up towards the end of this year and presented at a conference next March.

Source: Isle of Wight

What are good websites discussing the topic of sustainability?

I have had a look and have tried to provide you with a selection of the websites I found very useful. I hope you like them.

The ever great Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability

An introduction to sustainability:
http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Sustainability/index.html

Shropshire Council in the UK has a great article on what sustainability is:
http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/sustainability.nsf/open/A46F57EAF110600A80257092003543DF

The National Centre for Sustainability
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ncs/sustainability.htm

What Is Sustainability & How Do We Get There?
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/GEM/ambassador/What_is_sustainability.htm
These are just the 5 top I have come across.

Please also feel free to suggest other interesting and information sustainability websites if you like.

My name is Fabian and I have decided to start this blog. Which I have never done so far.

I currently live in Watford in the UK with my a lovely wife Anne.

So why have I started this blog? Well I run the online forum SustainabilityForum.com http://www.sustainabilityforum.com for 9 months now and have always been interested in Sustainability in general and a blog seemed to be another good way to try to make a difference in this world.

My aim with this blog is to provide unique content and some background on a wide range of topics in the field of sustainability.

And I will start with a specific topic in the next few days.

Until then all the best.

Fabian