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CSR in Germany – 2012 Update

2012-02-07T14:09:11Z

I am German and I now also live in Germany having moved from the UK back to my home country. CSR in Germany generally therefore is and has always been important to me. Having lived abroad for nearly half of my life I am also very critical of what the German CSR field has to [...]

Keep it simple and direct when promoting CSR / Sustainability

2012-02-04T16:47:30Z

When successfully communicating and promoting a certain product or cause, I learnt over the years that you need to keep it simple. Not overly simple but simple enough to let your audience know what you want to tell at a moments notice and with a tone they understand. This simplicity but also directness is not [...]

Is Facebook mutating into a money-making machine?

2012-02-02T05:54:13Z

I just heard about the upcoming Facebook IPO via mashable and needed to write a quick post about it as I feel that this development has a significant CSR angle to it. The CSR angle of the Facebook IPO The big problem I see is that Facebook is getting to powerful and influential due to its extreme [...]

Video: Hedonistic Sustainability by Bjarke Ingels

2012-01-31T20:13:12Z

In today’s post I wanted to share another very interesting TED video relating to Sustainability and sustainable design. This time from TEDxEast. In this video Bjarke Ingels talks about “Hedonistic Sustainability”. What this exactly means will be explained in the video of course. Scandinavia and Sustainable Design / Architecture Bjarke Ingels is from Scandinavia. For some [...]

Twitter is the most popular Sustainability / CSR Social Media channel

2012-01-29T15:33:55Z

Last week I conducted a poll aimed at identifying the most popular Social Media channel for your Sustainability / CSR topics. The result was unambiguous really. Twitter is the most popular Social Media channel for Sustainability / CSR topics. These are the results in numbers: Twitter with 73% (40 votes) Facebook with 11% (6 votes) Google+ [...]

Poll: What is your favourite Social Media Channel for CSR / Sustainability topics?

2012-01-29T15:00:25Z

I decided to conduct regular polls on interesting CSR / Sustainability topics during 2012. The plan is to do a new poll every 3 weeks going from Sunday to Friday that week. This is this weeks poll: Your browser doesn’t support iFrames Vote for this poll here. Thank you for participating and I will publish [...]

Howies splits from VF – A good sustainable business decision

2012-01-18T15:57:13Z

I am not the most passionate shopper or consumer when it comes to clothing but one company I have always been buying from over the past years has been Howies in the UK. Howies started out with the vision to be a truly sustainable and environmentally friendly organisation years ago. They joined Timberland in 2006. I [...]

My routine for writing a blog post

2012-01-09T20:10:48Z

This is the situation: I am home alone with the dogs tonight, my wife is away on a business trip and I am planning to spend the evening going about my business. I want to write a blog post but I for some reason get distracted on a regular basis. Twitter updates, Google+, sports pages, [...]

I wish you a Happy 2012 – Let’s make it a year to remember

2012-01-02T08:16:37Z

I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and a successful 2012. Let’s all work together to advance Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awareness and best practice in our world! Although pessimism surrounds some predictions for 2012, I am sure we can make 2012 a year to remember with regards to Sustainability / CSR. So [...]

Your CSR / Sustainability world in 2012: What could you do different?

2011-12-21T14:14:42Z

A strange title I know but the purpose of this post is very simple. What could you do as a CSR / Sustainability professional in 2012 different to 2011? I have listed three points, which I feel are very important and useful for everyone working the CSR / Sustainability field across the globe. Point 1 [...]