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Have you ever wondered what a Sustainability recruitment consultant is looking for in the right candidate?
Well, you do not need to look any further here Toby Webb, one of the senior recruitment consultants from Acre Resources, is explaining what he is looking for in individuals at a graduate and a senior manager level.

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A german fishing boat flies giant kite to save fuel. How great is that? And this is a sign of how the marine future may look like? A really interesting article.
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The 15,000 tonne ‘Maartje Theadora’ is the first fishing vessel to use the system, in which a 160 square meter blue and white [...]

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This is an interesting opinion piece from Marketing Week about the recent announcement by Marks and Spencer (A UK retail business) about their decision to expand their Sustainability initiative called ‘Plan A’. I also agree with the authors conclusions that a lot of organizations are under-selling their sustainability work.
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Marks & Spencer’s impressive announcement regarding the [...]

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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced 80 new initiatives under its ‘Plan A’ eco programme and committed to begin implementing them within the next five years.
Amongst the most ambitious commitments set out today by the high street retailer is to ensure that at least 50 per cent of M&S’ 2.7 [...]

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Eating outside of your home generally requires three things: food, food containers, and food utensils. For the majority of Americans, oil is involved in all three of these components. Food, especially processed food, requires tremendous amounts of oil to grow, process, and transport it. The plastic food containers we use [...]

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How much of this census will be propaganda and spin? Or is this a real effort by China to measure its pollution? I am not so sure. Decide for yourself. This is the beginning of the article :
China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday [...]

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The European chemical industry is embracing innovation to ensure sustainability. Moreover, through innovation the industry is providing measures to facilitate a sustainable society.
The chemical sector plays a significant role in the European economy, contributing 30% of the world’s total chemical production, employing 1.2 million people and generating €537 billion in sales in 2007.
The EU registration, [...]

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This is an interesting article I thought I would share with everyone here:
Industrial biotechnology is gaining supporters among environmentalists as a way to make significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and eventually move to a society free from fossil fuels. The lofty idea behind industrial, or white, biotechnology is to use nature’s own ingredients to solve industrial problems. [...]

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Some of you might have heard that Cadbury is now being taken over by Kraft.This is not a good development from a Sustainability perspective.
Why this is not a good development is the topic of this video comment by myself. This was originally posted on my blog FabianPattberg.com

What do you think about this takeover?

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A very interesting blog post by Christine Arena today:
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Investors are hoarding it to hedge against the dollar’s weakness. Consumers are buying it up in ever increasing volumes. Gold seemingly adds up to big opportunities wherever you look, with US gold jewelry sales representing a growing $17 billion market and China gold jewelry sales reaching nearly [...]

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