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Underground River: Collaborating for Canadian Water Futures
Collaboration gets talked about a lot in CSR: companies with NGOs, companies with companies, cross-sectoral innovations. When it comes to managing a resource like water that flows over every human-made boundary, we really need collaboration—a lot. Awareness of water issues is growing in Canada. Only a few examples: coastal areas need to prepare for future rising sea levels due to climate change, some of Canada's water infrastructure needs expensive updating1 and a recent study confirmed oil sands pollutants in surrounding lakes. According to experts, true collaboration for water sustainability involves pretty much everyone: young...
All STORIES in Sustainable Development
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Net Zero Energy Homes: Generate Renewable Energy in Your Home
Milford-based Potterhill Homes is offering an innovative green homebuilding program in the region where the homeowners...
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The UN Says Hippies Were Right: GMO's Are Out, Eco-Ag Is In
Decades ago, a sizable if motley group of individuals began to reject chemical agriculture arguing that food grown with...
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Merck Shines with Green Energy Systems for its Buildings
Merck & Co. tops the Justmeans' list of Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders. This includes its environmentally...
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GE Helping Homebuilders to Design Eco-friendly Homes
GE is working closely with a number of home developers and builders across the United States that are committed to the...
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Starbucks Gets Greener Stores
Starbucks has positioned itself as one of the most planet-friendly retailers by building and operating stores that mini...
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Building Green: FedEx Shows the Way
FedEx has shown an exemplary commitment to the cause of greening the environment in different ways. As a shipping giant...
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Largest Study on Oil Spill Impacts on Human Health Kicks Off
Following the tragic Gulf Oil Spill last year, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is leadi...
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Is Development Unifying or Polarizing?
Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, declared that sustainable development IS the growth agenda fo...
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Canadians Are Less Toxic Than Americans
A recent article in this month's Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that despite similar lifestyles and cul...
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P&G Leads from the Front with a New Commitment to LEED Certification
Procter & Gamble has announced its plans to pursue LEED certification for all new sites, which include offices, plants,...
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Budget Cuts Will Stunt US Development
As the United States continues to fumble through budget cut debates, or lack thereof, politicians are toeing a dang...
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Heavenly Creatures
While sustainable development can often seem _serious_ and even _austere_, there is a great deal of fun and humor relat...
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Neither Rain Nor Wind Will Stop the Movement
No, not that movement. One would be hard pressed to know it based on the national press, so focused as we have been on...
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Human Well-Being and the Environmental Paradox
One of the arguments against environmental conservation is that there is an apparent paradox between environmental degr...
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Honeybees, Human Burns and Sustainable Development
Sometimes people think of environmental conservation as an after thought rather than a critical component of sustainabl...
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Labor Protests in America and the Rise of Economic Inequity
The growing disconnect between the masses and the rich and powerful class of Americans has come to the fore with the la...
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EcoATM Promises to Make Recycling Electronics Easier
Dealing with electronic waste, or e-waste, the colorful term for electronic products that have reached the end of their...
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Breaking the Bank: Why Income Inequality Matters
This week the Mother Jones website ran an article entitled "It's the inequality, Stupid" that used graphs and charts ba...
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Survival of the Cooperative: A Case for Mutual Aid
In the United States most of us are taught in kindergarten that sharing is caring. That is a sentiment, however, that i...
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Air Pollution is a Silent Killer; More Risky than Cocaine
A recent study in Belgium found that individuals exposed to air pollution, typically in heavy traffic, were more suscep...
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