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Greening Technology

Smiling Switch Makes You Happy to Conserve Electricity Would making your switches look adorable help you to conserve energy? A design by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo, Hang Zhou & Christine Liu tests the theory. The switch is circular, and when you’ve turned it off, it looks like it is smiling joyfully at you. It really […]

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Book Teaser

The Ages and Stages of CSR: from Defensive to Systemic CSR I have found it useful to view the evolution of business responsibility in terms of five overlapping economic periods – the Ages of Greed, Philanthropy, Misrepresentation, Management and Responsibility – each of which typically manifests a different stage of CSR, namely: Defensive, Charitable, Promotional, […]

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The World Guide to CSR

A country by country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Published by Greenleaf Publishing , 2010, ISBN 978-1-906093-38-9 The World Guide to CSR is the first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) for 58 countries and 5 global regions. Each regional and national […]

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On The Lighter Side

100-Year-Old Belgian Tree Is World’s Most Social Media-Savvy Plant This is begging for a “You know you’re a treehugger if…” joke, the punchline being “if you have a tree as your friend on Facebook.” And there is a century-old tree in Belgium that can fit the bill. It is actually a very social media-savvy tree, […]

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