Clothing brand Patagonia gives 1% of its sales “to support environmental organisations around the world”. Carpet-maker Interface takes an “aggressive approach” to reach its goal to source 100% of its “energy needs […]
Why some companies are becoming environmental activists
Sustainable Production and Consumption in Food and Fashion: Management and Social Science as Agents of Innovation
Sustainable Production and Consumption in Food and Fashion: Management and Social Science as Agents of Innovation This one-day workshop (24 September 2015) was organized by Jennifer Smith Maguire and Maria Touri, and was […]
We keep choosing cars over clean air – that’s the real scandal
The Volkswagen emissions investigation looks set to be of one of the biggest corporate scandals in recent history – and we’ve seen quite a few. While most of the focus will be […]
Obama’s climate plan is another half-baked carbon trading scheme
The US Clean Power Plan puts a national limit on greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. Despite a few critics, environmentalists have on the whole reacted positively. Yet, as societies around the world are already […]
What happened to the ‘greenest-ever’ Conservative Party?
In a year when the all-important UN climate change summit will take place in Paris and the UN’s sustainable development goals will be finalised, one would have thought the government of one […]
Even the pope gets it – carbon markets won’t fix the climate
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment has quickly made him one of the world’s most significant figures in the climate debate. His message was notable not just for its acceptance of mainstream […]
