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How?s this for Renault?s Corporate Social Responsibility?
2009-09-23 19:18:00 When in 2002 the Benetton Formula One team morphed into Renault it was clear that what the French car giant was seeking to do was to secure brand value from the move, in return, of course, for funding. Constructors’ and Drivers’ championships in 2005 and 2006 will undoubtedly have given the brand a major boost ...
2aid.org ? Mit Hilfe des Social Web im Kampf gegen die Armut
2009-09-11 09:45:00 Die Armut in der Welt zu bekämpfen ? nichts Geringeres ist das Ziel von Anna Vikky und ihren Mitstreitern, die Anfang Juli die Non-Profit-Organisation 2aid.org e.V. gegründet haben. No related posts.
By: designblog
Watch this video to see sustainable development at work in Nicaragua
2009-03-19 21:47:00 Finally, a logical approach to building in rapidly developing nations like Nicaragua. The project featured in the video below employs local community members and educates them in the skills of sustainable building by utilizing readily available byproducts, such as tires and plastic bottles, in conjunction with other local materials. The aim is to empower local ...
PinoyBlogoSphere.com - Giving Back through Corporate Social Responsibility
2008-05-29 05:00:00 Source: www.PinoyBlogoSphere.com - For two years and running in the company I currently work for, we are required to allot four hours of company time (half of a workday) and four hours of our personal time (either we sacrifice part of a weekend or file a half-day vacation leave during a workweek) to extend help to the underprivileged. Last year, 99% of our total company headcount (of about 800) went in groups to various Gawad Kalinga communities around the country to teach children in their makeshift schools. This year, for want to explore other areas where our help may be equally needed, it’s going to be either CRIBS Philippines or Kythe Foundation. It is one thing to be willing to help and another to have the heart to want to deliver the “service” well. I have long realized that I’m not cut as a teacher because I have very little patience around kids in that I easily get annoyed when they randomly move about, cry for no apparent reason, and, most especiall...
I shop therefore I am
2008-03-28 18:03:00 Next Friday, April 4, issue nine of the David Report Bulletin will be released. The title will be “I shop therefore I am” and it will concern future consumerism and consumption culture. Among other things you will be able to find interesting texts from Kristina Dryza, freelance strategist and designer and Sante Poromaa, teacher ...
By: David Report
Think differently about Nicaragua real estate investments
2008-03-28 01:23:00 Can real estate investors ?do well? while ?doing good?? Can local communities in Nicaragua benefit from the massive growth in real estate investing in the country? Is there a sweet spot where charitable initiatives increase investment return and social welfare at the same time? These thorny questions get at the heart of what responsible property investing is ...
Support the Dalai Lama
2008-03-24 18:58:00 I just signed an urgent petition calling on the Chinese government to respect human rights in Tibet and dialogue with the Dalai Lama. This is really important, and I thought you might want to take action as well. After decades of repression, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change. China’s leaders are right now ...
By: David Report
Design vs branding
2008-03-18 15:25:00 I was reading an article some weeks ago in the Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri which made me a bit confused. The theme was branding (and design). In the article, Stefan Ölander from the branding agency Rewir says; “Today most products and services are exchangeable, it’s branding and communication that make the difference.” I have a ...
By: David Report
Watch the Earthship grow - day 32
2008-03-07 19:49:00 Today we started compacting the floors. It looks like we’ll be laying tiles, but we have received various ideas from local builders on the best method for laying them. Ideas range from concrete slabs to laying them into the clay earth to everything in between. There’s no rush, so we’ll be moving on to other areas of ...
Social Responsibility Or Personal Freedom: What Is More Important?
2008-02-20 15:27:00 Not to long ago an elderly gentleman at the age of 91 was not only carjacked but beat-up by his assailant. The scary part is that there was people witnessing this horrible crime and no one intervened. The assailant was 22 year old Deontae Edward Bradley. Here is the story: So this horrible situation bring us to ...
A fleet of the best Earthship posts from around the world
2008-02-16 19:01:00 The Earthship concept may be new to Nicaragua real estate but, search around a bit, and you’ll find Earthships all over the world. They work in all climates, on most terrains, gradients or exposures, within cities as well as in remote areas, completely off-the-grid. And people are blogging about Earthships and the logic of green building. ...
Stephen Burks at Stockholm Furniture Fair
2008-02-10 14:44:00 New York based designer Stephen Burks was invited to make a conceptual exhibition at the Stockholm Furniture Fair which materialized into the Craft Café. Personally it was one of the most inspirational spots of the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Slightly anarchistic and with a lot of emotions and authenticity it was a joy to sit down ...
By: David Report
MySpace leads the way in Social Responsibility
2008-02-08 10:25:00 MySpace claims to have ‘made their site safer for kids’ by introducing age guidelines and building in parental controls which means that its going to give parents access to an email registry to block their kids from receiving … Original post by Graeme Kerr - Organic Digital
By: Play Video Games
Green building in Nicaragua - 29th day of the construction of an Earthship.
2008-02-05 02:48:00 The waiting game for the wood has begun. We’re not talking about that much lumber, but the complications of material acquisition in Nicaragua are becoming clearer everyday. This is all good ground work for the Earthships that will follow. And the nice thing about this green building project is that there is always plenty to ...
Beautiful tiles hand made in Granada arrive on Day 28
2008-02-04 02:29:00 The bond beams on the greenhouse have been poured and are ready to receive trusses. Leaving the site in the very capable hands of Phil Basehart and Seth Larsen (Earthship Biotecture), project manager Dave Kniffin headed off on a supply run. Check out the Granada Tiles! (Granada is a beautiful historic colonial city located on the shores ...
Nicaragua real estate - ?A work of art? emerges on Day 26 of the Earthship
2008-02-02 23:09:00 The building is beginning its transformation from a solid structure, to a work of art… Thanks to Jo, Tim, and Lauren for their extra help at the site today. Bookmark It Hide Sites
Nicaragua real estate: Day 26 in the life of a Nicaraguan Earthship
2008-02-01 22:56:00 As our road is under construction, there are very small windows of opportunity to receive materials. And everyday is an opportunity to learn. Yesterday I was promised by one fellow based out of Rivas that the sand would arrive before 7:00am, an hour and a half before the road crew arrives. I was also promised by ...
Lot signs are going in on Day 24 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Earths
2008-01-30 16:32:00 It’s midway through the week and it looks as though we will accomplish our short term objectives. Today we saw two hits on the dome and both gutters built up significantly. Although the inside of the building is not currently a high priority, there are enough hands that we are able to continue with “packout” and adobe ...
Green building - Day 23 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Earthship
2008-01-29 16:32:00 The middle dome is ready to receive it’s first coat of plaster. Inside the building, Seth has been discussing the art of adobe plaster with the local Nicaraguan crew. The plaster work is coming along well. Lot’s of busy hands all around us. Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s been only 23 working days. Earthship, green building, ...
Day 22 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Earthship
2008-01-28 19:41:00 Monday is always a natural time to lay out goals and expectations for the week, and with the addition of Phil and Seth, two of Earthship Biotecture’s finest, we decided to set our goals high. All in all it was a decent Monday. We were able to get a skeleton of rebar up and supported for ...
Green real estate in Nicaragua: Day 21 of the construction of a Nicaraguan
2008-01-27 19:30:00 The west dome has received its final coat. This morning we were hit with about a twenty minute downpour and decided that pounding tires would need to wait due to all the fresh mud. And since the dome was already wet and needed to be done eventually, we decided it was a sign. So with Camilo sifting ...
Green real estate in Nicaragua: Day 19 of the construction of a Nicaraguan
2008-01-25 18:53:00 The greenhouse wall is ready to accept the bond beam. Fernando, Eliseo and Marlo will spend the first part of tomorrow plastering around the few bottles that are left while Eduardo, Freddy, and Miguel Angel (who has re-joined us for a few days) will pound out a few tires to channel water away from the ...
Green real estate in San Juan del Sur: Day 18 of the construction of a Nica
2008-01-24 18:48:00 It always feels good to have work for someone. Today Frederico and Eduardo re-joined the work force. We are now six from the El Carizal community just south of San Juan del Sur and myself, a lucky seven for the rest of the week. Today the greenhouse wall received a nice smooth (floated) coat. The exposed ...
Nicaragua real estate update: Day 17 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Ea
2008-01-23 21:44:00 Today was the first day of work on the site after the holidays. Of the original 13 workers from the community, I am beginning to separate out the best of the best. I invited the top three (decided on when I left on December 23) to help me get started. Fernando, Marlo and Eliseo will ...
Stephen Burks about his work
2008-01-10 15:06:00 Here is another video that we produced for Designboost 07. This time it is American designer Stephen Burks who talks about his interesting design projects in Peru and South Africa. Listen to how he is trying to join handcraft with great authenticity and industrial production. Ping Intressant.se tags technorati : stephen burks design authenticity designboost sustainable design Andra bloggar om: stephen ...
By: David Report
Day 16 of the Earthship Construction ? A reflection by Dave Kniffin
2007-12-22 18:45:00 Since the conception of this project, people have asked me what we are doing here, “What is the vision?” or “What is the goal?” And at any given time, the best I can do is offer a snapshot of where we are, and where we are going. It’s an evolving dream. Still, at the base ...
Earthship construction: Day 14 and Day 15
2007-12-21 18:35:00 The building is taking shape and as hard as it is to put the project on hold for the holidays, we have made great progress. Since Monday, we have been working with a local crew of fifteen as well as three experts in sustainable building from Taos, New Mexico who have stayed to continue to ...
should corporate social responsibility be mandated?
2007-12-21 06:31:00 Everywhere you turn, there's another story about a food, population or an energy crisis and then there's the environmental overlay. Sorry to sound like a real downer in this time of festive goodness and copious consumption, but don't we need a reality check and shouldn't corporate social responsibility be legally mandated? Does everyone believe the markets can solve the problems alone?I was driven to this chain of thought by Steve Hardy's excellent review of Thomas Hardy Dixon's The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization. Hardy-Dixon's book explores the complex changes that are happing to populations, food and the environment and gives a pretty damming report. "We can't possibly flourish in a future filled with sharp nonlinearities and threshold effects - and, somewhat paradoxically, we can't hope to preserve at least some of what we hold dear - unless we're comfortable with change, surprise, and the essential transience of things, and unl...
By: Influx Insights
Earthship construction: Day 13
2007-12-20 00:09:00 The day was rainy but spirits were high. Luckily down here in Nicaragua the rain is soft and warm. Presently half of the house is harvesting water into the east cistern when it rains. This means that the oxcarts may not have to haul water for the construction of the project anymore. Part of the goal ...
Earthship construction: Day 12
2007-12-19 00:04:00 No fibers this morning. Lydia and Jo have volunteered to drive to Managua to buy fibers at the one store in the country that sells them. That drive is a minimum five hours return trip on a less than perfect road, so their efforts are appreciated even before they depart. At the job-site, the morning is ...
Extending social responsibility to the whole value chain: Supplier ethics a
2007-12-10 00:07:00 It was a while since I last read a REALLY new thing in supply chain but today I read a piece in Supply and Demand Chain Executive which was quite interesting and like the new blood in my veins!! The article was covering a recent research by the consultancy firm Integrity Interactive about ethics management through ...
The Kerry Packer Civic Gallery of the Hawke Centre
2007-11-27 14:35:00 The Kerry Packer Civic Gallery of the Hawke Centre . . . an inviting garden of thought. The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at the University of South Australia, which honours the only South Australian to have become Prime Minister, could easily have been another static, lacklustre and staid institution. But instead, it?s a wonderful ...
By: David Report
Buy Nothing Day
2007-11-23 11:46:00 Tomorrow November 24th is the international Buy Nothing Day (November 23rd in the US). More than 65 nations around the globe are involved. The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Vancouver back in 1992 and has subsequently been promoted by the Canadian Adbusters magazine. The describe the Buy Nothing Day like this; “it ...
By: David Report
Why do I owe you?
2007-11-22 08:58:00 IOU is a producer selling garden furniture by well-known Swedish designers. The production is in cooperation with C.R.I.S (criminals return into society) where former criminals and drug-users will get a second chance to get back to normal society life through work and education. The complete profit from goes to charity. The new collection is designed ...
By: David Report
We can?t afford to buy CHEAP things
2007-11-14 23:11:00 Here follows a text from designer and cultural nomad Satyendra Pakhale about his exhibition called “We can’t afford to buy CHEAP things”. Having been invited by Ms. Nicolette Naumann to curate and design the Personal Shopper exhibition at Tendence Lifestyle 2007, I feel it?s indeed high time for us to review our way of living ...
By: David Report
She said it!
2007-11-13 09:06:00 This legendary speech by twelwe years old Severn Suzuki at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro in 1992 has been floating around in the bloggosphere for a while. Severn started the Environmental Children’s Organization when she was nine and it is somewhat frightening to see that not much has changed. Actually it has just ...
By: David Report
Corporate Social Responsibility Coordinator at PT Tirta Investama (DANONE A
2007-11-10 00:00:00 our aim here in Danone to be the world?s fastest moving food company, with notion concept of health and nutritious products . Danone Aqua , as part of Danone Group, is a leading Beverage Company in Indonesia and no.1 Water producer in the World, invites high competent Professionals to join our company as : Corporate Social ...
Luxury redefined
2007-11-08 17:09:00 Spring 2008 will see the launch of a new joint-branded John Smedley/Better Thinking Luxury Redefined t-shirt. Made in Derbyshire from organic, fairtrade, extra-long staple Peruvian cotton with an exceptionally low water footprint ? the Luxury Redefined concept takes sustainable design and communication to a new level. Supported by a product brochure and web site that ...
By: David Report
Climate Change: the biggest corporate social responsibility
2007-10-30 00:30:00 Photo: Clinton SteedsToday I went to a breakfast hosted by the The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR) where keynote speaker Paul Hohnen talked about climate change and how businesses must become sustainable. He thinks the basic motivation will be either greed or creed. "Climate change might be prevented as much by changes in technology and financial engineering as it will by changes in consumer habits. On both fronts, business must play a key role. In this regard, corporate responsibility has already played a pivotal role in putting these issues on the agenda, and bringing them to the point where leading companies like General Electric and Philips are integrating them into their core business."I think most corporates are in a transition phase, just starting to work out how to be more sustainable. Even though The Body Shop has a proud history of environmental responsibility and activism we don't claim to be perfect, but we're ...
Where's Your Social Responsibility Google?
2007-10-29 18:04:00 By Kalena Jordan (c) 2007 Unless you've been living on a desert island with no Internet access, you've probably seen the recent blog fallout from Google's latest crack down on alleged link brokers.This week it seems that Google made some type of manual Toolbar PageRank reduction on a handful of major blogs and portal sites like the Washington Post, ProBlogger, CopyBlogger and Forbes.com. Some of these sites had PageRank scores of 7 which have now dropped to 5, scores of 6 which have now dropped to 4 and so on. The blog buzz is that the sites have been singled out by Google as using their high PageRank scores to sell links and have been punished by the world's most popular search engine as a result. There is currently no proof of this and no public statement by Google acknowledging or denying the situation.A lot of bloggers have weighed in with commentary, observations and opinions. Every time I read a new post about the so called smack-down I imagine some Googlers at Mountain V...
Cheapest store concept in Sweden
2007-10-11 18:32:00 Afro Art was founded 1967 by Jytte Bonnier and have since that time been working with fair trade products and projects from the third world. In 2003, Afro Art changed hands. Six textile designers took over the business and infused new ideas and their own design into the organization. At this year, 2007, when ...
By: David Report
MarbleWood by Mater
2007-10-08 20:23:00 Brand new Danish design company Mater has recently presented its first collection at this years Maison et Objet in Paris. I would like to follow up my first presentation of Mater with some pictures of a really cool series of products called MarbleWood. Its designed by Todd Bracher and the materials are black and ...
By: David Report
Bags of goodwill
2007-09-18 23:45:00 British design company Twentytwentyone is organizing an auction where 40 world-renowned designers have created an unique design on an organically produced tote bag. The Bags of goodwill has been devised by Twentytwentyone to raise awareness of the importance of sustainability and fair-trad practice. All the proceeds will go to the Fairtrade Foundation. Stockholm based designer Damian ...
By: David Report
Eero Koivisto about Designboost
2007-09-18 11:27:00 Designer and architect Eero Koivisto Eero Koivisto talks about the Designboost event which I’m organizing in Malmö 17?19 October. The theme for this year is sustainable design. Eero Koivisto will be one of the speakers at the lecture day (or Boost chat day as we prefer to call) it on October 18. This day is ...
By: David Report
Responsible design from Mater
2007-09-09 23:51:00 Mater is a completely new design brand from Denmark that are launching their first collection at the Maison et Objet fair in Paris this week. On top of their great products Mater acts with social responsibility deep in its genes from the start. They have started a foundation that funds social and environmental initiatives conducted ...
By: David Report
Carbon Offset in India
2007-09-09 17:37:00 Have you heard about Global Warming? Of course you have. Who hasn’t? Do you know your environmental impact? Basically, do you know how much contribution your household and lifestyle make to the global CO2 emissions? Are you doing something about it? What can you do? Well there are many things you can do of course: change ...
By: Habitually Good
Physicians for Social Responsibility and The Economist Urge Rejection of U.
2007-08-30 18:29:00 Referring to the agreement as ?dangerous to international peace and security,? the Nobel Peace Prize-winning American organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), together with its Indian counterpart, Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), called on the governments of the two countries last week to reject the U.S.-India nuclear deal promoted by its leaders. Although the deal does not need the approval of the Indian Parliament, the country must first negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and garner an exception in its... [This is a content summary only. Click on the above link for the full post.]
By: Nukes of Hazard
Loans that change lives
2007-08-30 06:27:00 The title has been lifted from Kiva website. Kiva is a place on the web which connects lenders from around the world to borrowers in the developing nations. What’s very good about the website is that it allows multiple lenders to lend to one borrower. So, you can begin lending with as little as $25. ...
By: Habitually Good
Loans that change lives
2007-08-30 06:27:00 The title has been lifted from Kiva website. Kiva is a place on the web which connects lenders from around the world to borrowers in the developing nations. What’s very good about the website is that it allows multiple lenders to lend to one borrower. So, you can begin lending with as little as $25. ...
By: Habitually Good
The greenwashing trend
2007-08-24 09:31:00 The greenwashing trend is unfortunately flourishing. Greenwashing is when companies (or governments) spend more money or time advertising being green, than on investing in environmentally sound practices. Marketers and business executives suddenly understand that green is selling. But sustainability is not about marketing. Sustainability is about design. It means that designers around the world have ...
By: David Report
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