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WindMade and the case for transparency

WindMade and the case for transparency

By Making It on 20 April, 2012

Morten Albæk introduces the first global consumer label identifying corporations and products made with wind energy.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged alternative energy, Bloomberg, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, brands, clean energy, consumer label, Corporate Renewable Energy Index, corporations, Droga5, energy, Global Consumer Wind Study, Global Wind Energy Council, green energy, LEGO Group, Making It, Morten Albæk, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, renewable energy, renewable energy goals, stakeholders, UN Global Compact, Vestas, wind, wind energy, wind farms, wind power, wind turbine, WindMade, WWF

Vandana Shiva: ‘Staying alive’

Vandana Shiva: ‘Staying alive’

By Making It on 11 June, 2011

An interview with founder of the Indian environmental organization, Navdanya, which promotes biodiversity, organic farming, and seed saving

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, Asia, Bhavani Prakash, biodiverse systems, biodiversity, bt cotton, business, conservation, corporations, cotton, Davdanya, developing countries, development, earth, eco-feminist, ecological footprint, ecological memory, economy, ecowalkthetalk.com, environmental work, food systems, generosity, genetic engineering, globalization, herbicide-resilient crops, industrialization, industry, intellectual property, monocultures, multiplicity, nature, NGO, north India, organic farming, renewal, rights of farmers, seed saving, suicide, super-weeds, technology, toxic, UNEP, Uttaranchal, Vandana Shiva

The impact of business on the MDGs

The impact of business on the MDGs

By Making It on 4 November, 2010

With the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) only five years away, questions have been raised as to the effectiveness of the private sector in influencing progress towards their achievement. A new study assesses the contributions of 20 well-known multinational companies towards influencing the MDGs.

Posted in Extra! | Tagged 2010, beneficiary, business, Business Impact Report, corporations, CSR, deadline, development, economy, human, Industrial Development, market, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, private sector, responsibility

From steam engines to human consciousness

From steam engines to human consciousness

By Making It on 22 September, 2010

Industrialization will continue to be the most important avenue of future development, but Alfredo Sfeir-Younis says it needs to be about people.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged abundance, agrarian economy, Alfredi Sfeir-Younis, antibiotics, business, challenges, chile, Cho Tab Khen Zambuling, competition, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, developing countries, development, earth, empowerment, entrepreneurship, Europe, exclusion, external environment, finance, ford, freedom, GNP, happiness, history, human, human rights, impacts, independence, industrial, industrialization, interaction, intercommunication, interconnected, Issue 3, justice, labour, life, love, machines, management, managers, opportunities, owners, peace, people, Princeton University, processes, production, productivity, profits, quality of life, security, self-realization, social, solidarity, stockholders, sustainability, technology, trade, traders, UNIDO, United Nations, urban, values, wealth, workers, world, World Bank, Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation

Old computers – new business

Old computers – new business

By Making It on 7 December, 2009

Microsoft’s SEAN NICHOLSON reviews the commercial possibilities presented by e-waste.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, components, computers, corporations, development, disassembly, e-waste, EU, European Union, global manager of emerging solutions, global waste, government, Issue 1, it companies, job satisfaction, microsoft, multinational companies, non-profit organizations, pc-reuse, pcs, policy, Recycling, refurbished pcs, sean nicholson, seattle, social programmes, solving the e-waste problem, step, UK, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, US, waste

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