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Politics wins over sustainability yet again

2012-05-17T06:03:48Z

Yesterday the German chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister. This is the Reuters news item: Merkel ditches environment minister after poll rout | Reuters. We will of course never know all of the reasons why she decided to do so but it seems that the main reason was that he lost against the main social [...]

My Social Media experiment – No more Twitter and Google+ for a month

2012-05-16T13:48:39Z

I have decided to conduct a social media experiment. I will not use Twitter or Google+ over the next 4 weeks and instead fully focus on writing daily blogs on CSR / Sustainability and various business topics. The intention is to find out whether I will be more productive that way. Productive in this context [...]

Buy land, they don’t make it anymore!

2012-05-15T08:46:20Z

Yesterday I purchased my first square-meter (m2) of land. Actually 982 m2 to be exact. My wife and I can now call ourself proud owners of valuable land. It is a very gratifying feeling to write that actually. Why? Because in my view land is one of the most undervalued assets we can have a Sustainability practitioners [...]

Report Review: Corporate Progress on the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability

2012-05-14T09:26:45Z

I wanted to take a closer look at an interesting new report today. The report called “The Road to 2020: Corporate Progress on the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability“ provides us with some interesting key findings. Key findings of the report: Companies are moving, albeit too slowly, given the urgency of the sustainability challenges we face. Some [...]

I want more sustainability and transparency in politics

2012-05-13T13:10:53Z

I just came back from voting in the state parliament elections here in North-Rhine Westphalia. This was the first election for me since moving back to Germany nearly 1,5 years ago. At previous elections I used to do postal voting and to be honest I never really spend much time deciding whom to vote for. [...]

The future of Social Marketing? – Recycle Your Facebook Status to Save the Planet

2012-05-12T16:41:41Z

Today has been a very busy day and I did not really find the time to blog as extensively as I wanted to. So lets make this quick. Today I want to introduce you to this very cool and at the same time very useful project called the The Great Recycle. The Great Recycle is a national (US [...]

Liberate yourself: Unclutter your digital life

2012-05-11T14:45:18Z

The day today started out pretty normal. But then I got another newsletter on some strange non CSR / Sustainability topic that I must have signed up a long time ago. This frustration and inability to control what I got sent and where I got notifications from made me curious how much I could actually [...]

Video: Amazing footage of untamed nature

2012-05-10T09:13:00Z

I can never get enough of magnificent nature footage. Images or film, I don’t mind. Today I wanted to point you to this TED talk where filmmaker Karen Bass shares some of the astonishing nature footage she’s shot for the BBC and National Geographic. Viewing recommendation: Get a tea or coffee, sit back and simply enjoy!

Further consolidation: Two Tomorrows Group joins DNV

2012-05-09T12:23:22Z

I was travelling most of the time the last few days when my wife forwarded me the press release stating that DNV is expanding its sustainability consultancy with the acquisition of the Two Tomorrows Group. I knew right away I had the blog topic for today. Two Tomorrows, prior to this acquisition, was one of the leading larger [...]

Send me your CSR / Sustainability news and blog posts!

2012-05-07T20:34:02Z

Daily blogging on CSR / Sustainability requires a constant flow of interesting news items or blog posts to feed my ideas about upcoming posts. That is why I am asking you today to please forward me the news items or blog posts you feel are worth spreading. Once I have taken a look at the [...]