Best Clean and Green Links of February
Here are the links of the month:
UN kicks 859 companies out of Global Compact: cites lack of integrity and lack of implementation (via Chloregy) https://www.chloregy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112127:sustainable-business–still-a-long-way-to-go&catid=103
Buy-local campaigns in 100 cities were effective in redirecting holiday spending https://www.newrules.org/retail/news/holiday-sales-increase-independent-businesses-national-survey-finds
After Retrofit, Caterpillar HQ Decreases Energy Use 46%, Saves $800K https://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/02/10/after-retrofit-caterpillar-hq-decreases-energy-use-46-saves-800k/
(Via @LittleFootEnrgy) Perfect example of how going Green makes enormous economic sense. If every company did this, we wouldn’t be talking about nuclear power, forest biomass, or “clean” coal.
How an environmental group could have taken two easy steps to vastly improve the effectiveness of a marketing/lobbying campaign (on my blog) https://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/great-ad-missed-opportunity-to-increase-effectiveness/2010/02/28/
How to bring up ethics questions at work (BNET) https://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=5761&tag=nl.e713
UK Guardian: Depth of errors in IPCC Report wildly exaggerated: Right-wing anti-environmentalists have made a lot of noise about “distortion” in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, claiming ‘spin’ about whether climate change is really a threat. the respected UK newspaper, the Guardian, took a close look, and found that out of some 3000 pages in the report, there were only a few significant errors. Read this and THEN go argue with the right-wing climate deniers. https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/15/ipcc-errors-facts-spin
