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[Question For Citizenship] Question For Citizenship: Hot Chinnagounder's Challenge: The ...: When Indian centenarian Chinnagounder asked Deane Curtin about his interest in traditional medicine, especially since he wasn’t working for a drug company looking to patent a new discovery, Curtin wondered whether it was possible for the industrialized world to interact with native cultures for reasons other than to exploit them, develop them, and eradicate their traditional practices. The answer, according to Curtin, defines the ethical character of what we typically call ‘progress.’

[Corporate Citizenship] Corporate Citizenship - Corporate Responsibility, Reporting ...: Corporate Citizenship is a specialist global corporate responsibility and sustainability consultancy with offices in London and New York. We offer a wide range of services from Reporting and Assurance, Impacts, Sustainability and CR Strategy, .

[Citizen Action Monitor] Montana citizens do the “Tar Sands Tabledance” in Gov ...: The group demanded that Schweitzer rescind his support for Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline as well as ExxonMobil’s plans to truck over 200 massive Korean-built tar sands processing modules across Idaho and Montana.

[Business Ethics] Corporate Citizenship at McDonald's: 10 Lessons ... - Business Ethics: by Bob Langert, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, McDonald's I have been working in corporate citizenship for two decades, so I have seen the good, the bad the ugly – and learned a lot on the way. Here's my top ten list of observations to pass on based on McDonald's .

[Green Living] Ecological Sustainability | Green Living: Some very common sustainable materials that have started finding favor with builders, even in the urban areas are clay, sand, rock, bamboo, straw, concrete and even wood. Use of these sustainable materials have resulted in creation of eco-friendly homes, which not only are very healthy to live in but also are very energy friendly and help the citizen reduce energy consumption.

[CIPE Development Blog] Corporate citizenship beyond philanthropy | CIPE Development Blog: Development banks, or development financing institutions (DFIs), are set up by governments with the goal of providing credit to higher risk investment in the areas where commercial loans are otherwise hard to obtain such as long-term infrastructure projects or loans to SMEs. Due to their unique mandate, DFIs are supposed to operate according to the dual bottom line: achieving both financial sustainability and developmental impact.

[WolfeNotes.com] WolfeNotes.com » Another Corporate Shark Appointed DEP Assistant ...: Kozinski’s experience in environmental litigation includes the defense and prosecution of numerous private party cost recovery actions under CERCLA and comparable state law in New Jersey and New York, as well as defense of government CERCLA cost recovery actions. Most recently, she represented clients in the defense of CERCLA actions that involve unique theories of corporate successor liability and derivative parent liability.

[The American Society of Permaculture] Ecological Design Arts or Permaculture? « The American Society of ...: Resolution of the great ecological challenges of the next century will require us to reconsider the substance,process,and purposes of education at all levels and to do so,as Yale historian Jaroslav Pelikan writes in The Idea of a University:A Reexamination,“with an intensity and ingenuity matching that shown by previous generations in obeying the command to have dominion over the planet.” But Pelikan himself doubts whether the university “has the capacity to meet a crisis that is not only ecological and technological,but ultimately educational and moral.” Why should this be so? Why should those institutions charged with the task of preparing the young for the challenges of life be so slow to recognize and act on the major challenges of the coming century?

[Institute for the Humanities] Cosmopolis/Cosmopolitics: Humanities and Citizenship After: Her research is rooted in feminist and green political theory and explores a range of themes relating to citizenship, social justice and ecological sustainability.  She is author of Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006), has recently published articles on gender justice and the politics of climate change, and is currently co-editing (with Timothy Doyle) a two-volume series titled Global Perspectives on Environmentalism.

[Citizen Action Monitor] Post-Copenhagen, UK climate activists split on what to do next ...: “A lot of people just want to bypass getting involved in targets and negotiations, in the international talks, we’re just trying to stop specific emissions at source. So you’ve got coal action in Scotland, Manchester runway camp, tar sands, biofuels”¦ You don’t hear so much because it’s not as attention grabbing but I think it’s more effective because people are in it for the long haul, people are acting locally, stopping projects and having a real impact.

[Collide-a-scape » Collide-a-scape >> Keith Kloor's Blog >> Where Nature and Culture Intersect] Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> The Neo-Green ...: Likewise consumers of eco-chic goods and experiences are motivated by ideals that try to transcend or correct the ecological or deleterious human impacts of capitalism. Thus both producer and consumer of eco-chic are caught in a contradiction between their social justice drives and their suspension in the logic of neoliberalism.

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