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How Do You Avoid Gender Discrimination?

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Gender discrimination in the workplace is an issue that we need to stand against. In today’s day and age, where equal contributions from both sexes in the corporate world are valued, gender discrimination simply should not be tolerated or encouraged. Within Green Delta Insurance Company, a firm believer of equal rights and opportunities, we have uniform policies for both male and female employees. more[...] login_required

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Fathima, Nusrat

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Betting On Environmental Sustainability and Balance

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ISA is the biggest energy transport company in Colombia and also present in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and throughout Central America. Through its affiliates and subsidiaries, the company conducts a range of activities such as design, construction, administration, operation of lineal infrastructure systems in electricity, telecommunications connectivity, and highway construction with the project Autopistas de la Montaña. more[...] login_required

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Betting On Environmental Sustainability and Balance

Ana María Naranjo, ISA
Jimena Maria Toro, ISA

ISA is the biggest energy transport company in Colombia and also present in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and throughout Central America. Through its affiliates and subsidiaries, the company conducts a range of activities such as design, construction, administration, operation of lineal infrastructure systems in electricity, telecommunications connectivity, and highway construction with the project Autopistas de la Montaña. more[...]

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Grundfos Reuses Wastewater

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In the future, water supplies will be even scarcer than is presently the case. Action must be taken in order to solve the problem. Climate change causes a number of different problems. As regards water resources, climate change affects the environment in a number of different ways. more[...] login_required

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Grundfos Reuses Wastewater

Grundfos

In the future, water supplies will be even scarcer than is presently the case. Action must be taken in order to solve the problem. Climate change causes a number of different problems. As regards water resources, climate change affects the environment in a number of different ways. more[...]

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Coop Naturaline – Fashion & Fairness

Emma Arvidsson, Coop
Simona Matt, Coop
Coop

In close partnership with Remei AG, Coop ensures organic cotton production, ecological processing and fair working conditions along the entire textile supply chain. This is guaranteed by strict independent controls. more[...] login_required

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Coop Naturaline – Fashion & Fairness

Emma Arvidsson, Coop
Simona Matt, Coop
Coop

Coop launched its Naturaline brand in 1993. Today, the company is one of the world’s largest retailers of Fairtrade organic cotton. Coop has worked with REMEI AG since 1994. Together, they have developed a set of social and ecological requirements for fashionwear. more[...]

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Efficient Household Appliances Are Good for the Environment and Your Wallet

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Energy efficient Home Appliances can make a considerable contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Studies completed by independent bodies have found that home appliances make a significant contribution to reducing energy consumption and global warming. A ten year old refrigerator consumes up to five times as much energy as a comparable new model. more[...] login_required

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Efficient Household Appliances Are Good for the Environment and Your Wallet

Fridolin Weindl, BSH

Accounting for almost 30 percent of consumption, private households are the second-largest source of energy use and, with 21 percent, the third-largest source of CO2 emissions worldwide. Electrical appliances, in turn, account for almost half of the entire electricity use in private households. more[...] login_required

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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change

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The Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]

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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change

Bosch Group

The Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]

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The Green Imperative

Steffen Frankenberg, Deutsche Post DHL
Deutsche Post DHL

Deutsche Post DHL became a signatory to the UN Global Compact in June 2006. At that time, we sought to align our internal environmental commitment and approach with key external international standards. Accepting our environmental responsibility continues to be a challenge and opportunity for us as we seek ways to adapt our business processes and culture to addressing the environmental challenges we face today. Our environmental strategy has three pillars: tackling climate change, improving our overall environmental performance, and minimizing our use of natural resources. more[...] login_required

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Indigenously Produced Organic Fruit

Gerd Pfitzenmeier

“Without the cooperation with the indigenous people,” Xavier Richard knows, “our company would never have been able to thrive as it has.” Since its establishment in 1987, Amazon Caribbean Ltd. (Amcar) has relied on the efforts of thousands of indigenous people from the Arawack, Warrau and Carib tribes in Guyana. In the jungle of the Barima-Waini Basin, they collect the raw materials for Amcar’s products: hearts of palm and pineapple. “Our mission,” the company states accordingly, “is to generate, in partnership with the people in Guyana, economic value added from naturally growing products.” more[...]

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Shared Value- Future of Green - Mark Kramer

During this audio interview Kramer discusses the challenges of coordinating corporate social responsibility projects with corporations, and how the success of the cell phone industry in emerging (third world) markets has enabled low-income users to participate and provide feedback, thereby allowing CSR to thrive. more[...]

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