Today's Top Five CSR - Sustainability Stories - 9/3/08

• Posted by Zach Lane
• On September 03, 2008


• Interests: Top News

The JustMeans staff hand picks today's five most interesting and important stories in the world of sustainable thinking.

BusinessWire, CSR, Baltimore - Campbell Soup Company named David Stangis as its first ever Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility yesterday.  Stangis has considerable experience in CSR related fields, and comes to Campbell after eight years as Intel Corporation's Global Director of Corporate Responsibility.  Stangis also serves on the boards of Net Impact, the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, and Ethical Corporation Magazine.

CSRWire, CSR, Washington D.C. - Boeing is joining the World Environment Center, a nonprofit focused on helping companies globally to identify and implement initiatives to improve sustainability.  Boeing is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft combined, and it has set aggressive goals to curb the amount of pollution it contributes to the atmosphere.

USA Today, sustainability, New York - College campuses across the country are dumping trays from their cafeterias.  Sustainability experts believe that trays encourage students to take more food than they will eat and require a large amount of energy to clean, both of which significantly increase the universities' environmental impact.  New York University and the University of Minnesota are two of the latest to join a large list of schools in abandoning the devices.

Green Building Elements, sustainability, Springfield - This year saw the largest increase in hospital construction since World War II, and sustainability is a major part of the equation.  Hospitals are increasingly employing design firms focusing on hospitality to create more comfortable spaces for patients, so they have been employing design firms that typically work on hotels and other structures for the hospitality industry.  Many of these firms take sustainability very seriously, and the new hospital designs are often much more energy efficient and eco-friendly than those that were previously constructed.

BBC, consumer sustainability, London - Could you go for a month without plastic?  The BBC's Christine Jeavans set out at the beginning of August to spend the whole month plastic free, and she seems to have done a pretty good job.  Read her story to check out what life is like when you try to completely eliminate nearly all the packaging that you ordinarily use.

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