Blogposts tagged 'Sustainable'

Fish Fight brings the battle to Europe

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 31 May 2011 at 5:35pm - 2 Comments
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launches Fish Fight Europe outside the EU Commission
All rights reserved. Credit: © Willie Mackenzie / Greenpeace
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launches Fish Fight Europe outside the EU Commission, Brussels

From the UK to Europe: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight has become an incredible force for change, with over 678 100 emails sent calling for an end to the insane practise of discards in the UK – and now the battle’s moving to the continent.

Article tagged as: brussels, CFP, common fisheries policy, EU, European Commissioner, fish fight, Fisheries Minister, fishing, hugh fearnley-whittingstall, Maria Damanaki, Maritime Affairs & Fisheries, Reform, richard benyon, sustainable, tuna, Willia Bain, zac goldsmith

Business and government can make swift changes when they want... or are forced to

Posted by John Sauven - 18 October 2010 at 12:22pm - 0 Comments

Jeff Swartz, CEO of Timberland wrote recently in the Harvard Business Review, 'You can tell a lot about how your day is going to unfold by the number of e-mails that are waiting for you ...  On June 1, 2009, they kept coming, and coming, and coming.'

The emails flooding Jeff Swartz's inbox were coming in response to a newly released Greenpeace report about deforestation in the Amazon. The gist of the report was that (a) Brazilian cattle farmers are illegally clear-cutting Amazon rainforests to create pastures, and (b) the leather from their cows might be winding up in shoes - including Timberland's.

Article tagged as: amazon, cattle, china, consumerism, deforestation, leather, sustainable, timberland

12 policies to save the climate and our planet

Posted by John Sauven - 11 October 2009 at 4:21pm - 0 Comments

With parliament coming back, a general election looming and the Copenhagen climate summit just weeks away, this is the time for rhetoric to stop and action to start. That’s why we’ve written this manifesto. The policies show that we can protect the environment while also protecting our economy. We want all politicans to steal our policies.

By using the big economic levers we can have sustainable recovery, create green jobs and cut emissions. But for this to happen politicans need to set aside short term party politics and work together to tackle the really important issues. And frankly, if any political party doesn’t adopt these policies, we should be asking them why not?

Article tagged as: bonds, climate change, coal, economy, emissions, energy, green, grid, manifesto, renewable energy, sustainable, tax

Holding the Line with FSC

Publication date:  3 November, 2008

Over the past 12 years, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has created a leading global system for credible certification of environmentally and socially responsible managed forests and it has been innovative and adaptive in meting the challenges to transform forest stewardship worldwide. Its success and the reality of rapid growth and demand have lead FSC to face a number of challenges.

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