Earth Day: What Makes Cisco a Sustainability Leader?
Nearly 50 years ago, US Senator Gaylord Nelson spearheaded the first Earth Day, sparked by the devastating 1969 oil…
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Nearly 50 years ago, US Senator Gaylord Nelson spearheaded the first Earth Day, sparked by the devastating 1969 oil…
Source: blogs.cisco.com
When it comes to hitting the 2030 targets underpinning the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, considering risk alone will not cut it. Larry Fink’s recent emphasis on climate change risks and divesting in coal is significant, albeit a few decades late, but what about opportunities? And what about other sustainable development issues that threaten to bring businesses down? Unless businesses change what they do and how they do it, the goals will not be achieved.
Sustainability and the children of the Derbyshkinskiy Orphanage in Kazan, Russia were both winners at the conclusion of WorldSkills Kazan 2019. That is because for the first time Plumbing and Heating implemented a ‘Champions’ sustainability project included as part of the Competition.
Instead of safely recycling the electronics they collected, Total Reclaim’s owners secretly sent electronics to Hong Kong for disposal.
Three reasons that sustainable professionals know how to get things done.
When I arrived at college, the hot rumor was that drinking alcohol through a straw was the fast-track to getting trashed. My crew worked through boxes of straws to learn firsthand it was just an urban myth.
Over the past several decades, efforts have been made at the global, national, state, and local levels to increase attention paid to environmental sustainability. Most notably, goal 7 of United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals is to Ensure Environmental Sustainability (Sachs & Director, 2005).In order to meet these goals, we must first develop an environmentally-literate populace.