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WWF-Canada and Loblaw to Raise Awareness about Climate Change in National Sweater Day
Corporate Social Responsibility: The second annual National Sweater Day - a WWF-Canada campaign, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) - will take place February 9th and is expected to engage thousands, predominantly through school and workplace activities. The campaign is meant to educate and motivate Canadians on the issue of Climate Change; specifically, how individual actions can help reduce energy use at work, school and home. The message is simple: wear a sweater and lower the thermostat. "If every Canadian turned down their thermostat by two degrees Celsius [35.6 Fahrenheit] each winter, 2.2 mega-tonnes of carbon dioxide could be saved every year - equiv...
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Where Have All the Trees Gone? Trying to Save the World's Forests Through Sustainable Finance
Sustainable Finance: "We won't succeed in tackling climate change unless we deal with deforestation." -- Caroline Spelman, UK environment s...
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Three Promising Social Enterprises to Watch Out For
Social Enterprise: An increasing number of young people with an entrepreneurial bent are looking at the idea of social innovation, disrupt...
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Social Innovation: Morocco to become a Power House of Solar Energy
Social Enterprise: Is it possible for social innovation to harvest solar energy from the plains of the Moroccan desert? Well, DESERTEC...
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Indian Social Enterprise Leads from the Front
Social Enterprise: The Schwab Foundation, which is an associate of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has chosen a social enterprise called In...
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Purina Gets Socially Responsible With Shelter Pets
Corporate Social Responsibility: A dog is for life, not just for Christmas. The famous slogan by Clarissa Baldwin, who coined the phrase back in 1978 wh...
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Social Innovation: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Social Enterprise: If you want to be as green in death as you are in life, there are social innovation eco-friendly burial options for you...
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Social Enterprises to Unlock the Potential in Latin America
Social Enterprise: Ashoka, a leading non-profit network of social innovators and entrepreneurs, has entered into a partnership with Colcer...
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BMW Announces Sustainability Initiatives at COP17
Corporate Social Responsibility: While delegates grapple to find common ground at the UN's climate change conference in Durban, BMW announced three sust...
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Solar Impulse's Social Innovation Project to Change the Landscape of Aviation
Social Enterprise: The Solar Impulse project is currently writing the history pages of tomorrow with its social innovation commitment t...
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Sustainability and Christmas Trees: Let's Get Real
Corporate Social Responsibility: Christmas is, by all standards, a not very sustainable holiday. People shop, travel and eat much more than they should,...
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Horizon 2020: 80 Billion Euros to Boost European Competitiveness
Sustainable Finance: "We need a new vision for European research and innovation in a dramatically changed economic environment." -- Maire Ge...
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Social Innovation: Yingli Energy, Chinese Solar Panel Company Flies the Flag for the 2014 World Cup
Social Enterprise: Football becomes green through its social innovation association with one of its sponsors - Yingli Energy, a Chinese...
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COP17: Latest Updates
Corporate Social Responsibility: As usual with the UN's climate change conferences (COP), the ongoing 17th edition is marred with discontent and wars of...
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The Heat Is On: Green Climate Fund in Danger in Durban
Sustainable Finance: "Governments must find ways -- now -- to mobilize resources up to the $100 billion per annum pledged." -- U.N. Secretar...
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Social Enterprise Workshop for Budding Social Entrepreneurs
Social Enterprise: Social Enterprise Bootcamp, a two-day workshop aimed at budding social entrepreneurs, was recently organized by student...
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Social Enterprise: Fonderie 47 Mission to Wipe Out Weapons
Social Enterprise: I love this story: it's about true social enterprise combined with out-of-the-box thinking, which together have crea...
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COP17: Sustainability Meeting Must Address Animal Agriculture, Says Humane Society
Corporate Social Responsibility: Durban in South Africa is the stage where the United Nations' climate change conference, also known as COP17, is taking...
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Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley
Social Enterprise: Silicon Valley is playing host to the Social Innovation Summit, a private forum dedicated to solving some of the world'...
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Social Enterprise: Sending Money is now as Simple as Sending A Text
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Cash-Lite: Mobile Money Expands in Nigeria
Sustainable Finance: Who needs a bank when you have a mobile phone? Last week, following regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Niger...
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