It’s not news that there are false claims in sustainability reports. Nevertheless, a recent post caught my eye. A post on SustainableBusinessForum.com by Elaine Curtis noted that the lying can be huge. Labor Indicators: 86% of companies claim they report and only 11% actually do. Human Rights Indicators: 62% of companies claim they report and only …
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Yes, the world IS melting.
Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, according to the most definitive assessment so far. More than 20 polar research teams combined forces to produce estimates of the state of the ice in Greenland and Antarctica in a paper in Science. The study’s headline conclusion …
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Welcome Palestine.
The UN finally agreed that Palestine exists. It has always seemed strange that people had a country taken from them so that immigrants could move in. That has been somewhat rectified by at last admitting that Palestine exists, and so therefore do Palestinians. Let us hope that this is a step towards living together in …
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Your rotting brain.
The headline “smoking rots brain” looked ominous. Skimming through the article pointed to a couple of studies about the rate of cognitive decline and the influence of age, diet, exercise and smoking. The story indicated that brains start to decline from about the age of 45 and lifestyle has a big impact on the rate …
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Thousands of Gaza residents poured on to the streets to celebrate.
Ceasefire. Egypt to receive assurances from both sides that they will abide by the deal, and will follow up any reports it has been broken. Does not everyone wish for peace? So, let us make it so. BBC: Gaza crisis: Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement holds
Evil prevails when good people do nothing
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” is attributed to Edmund Burke, an Irish political philosopher, Whig politician and statesman (1729-1797). Searches have failed to find this exact quotation in Burke’s writings, but these Burke quotes seem appropriate. “But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? …
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Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)
It’s not often that you hear a conservative, traditional, esteemed financial guru advocating civil disobedience. So it is fair to let you read why they advocate an energetic voice of change. The summary is: Times are far more desperate than we think and we need to change the system to become sustainable with the utmost …
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100 million deaths in the 20th century – thanks to the cigarette!
By the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from cancer, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause – tobacco. “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation,” says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. “It killed about 100 million people in the …
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It’s what’s inside that counts.
Check out this BBC article Five photos that sparked body image debates. The images are very thought provoking and challenge assumptions about body shape. Perhaps the message is “more variety, more health is beautiful”.
Let’s WISE up.
Madhav Chavan won the WISE award for providing an education for millions of impoverished families in India. Educating millions really is worth cheering about. (See BBC news report here.) Have a look at the World Innovation Summit for Education – building the future of education. Perhaps you can help lay a few bricks. Education is …
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