Scoping out HP’s sustainability

HP has a number of plans to reduce its carbon footprint.

Go Green, Fast

COMMUNICATIONS Data Services ISSUES INDUSTRY LEADERS at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona have said key areas of focus in the near term will include faster mobile broadband speeds and the environmental sustainability of the mobile industry.

Green

Carel Alberts

The green IT shock

Green IT provides both risks and opportunities for IT organisations. Gartner takes a look at green it policy.

THE

Samantha Perry

Sustainability as competitive advantage

Can market forces come to the aid of a sick planet? The grudging realisation by business – that it operates within a larger system whose biophysical laws limit its expansion – has taken a long time.

Sustainability

Hugh Tyrrell

The real cost of economic growth

The economy is run by economists who are swayed by figures and facts.

THE

Peet Du Plooy

Developing value

The economic sense in creating business strategies incorporating environmental and social concerns is increasingly apparent for companies operating in developed markets.

Developing

Jodie Throrpe

Home-grown materials

In keeping with their sustainability principles, Spier wine estates have created what is possibly the first ecologically friendly conference centre in the country.

Home

Mindshift

Nedbank group 2006 Sustainability Report

Increasing numbers of corporations are incorporating the ‘triple bottom line’ concept into their business models.

Nedbank

Mpumelelo Ncwadi

Software to measure corporate sustainability

SAS, the business intelligence and analytical software and services company, has developed a Corporate Sustainability Scorecard designed to help companies measure performance on sustainability, and to track and improve environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Software

ISO tackles a standard for sustainability

ISO has embarked on its most ambitious and multilateral project ever – to develop a sustainability standard for business – and Mind Shift’s associate editor is chairing the international process.

ISO

Steve Kretzmann

Social responsibility takes a step forward

Under South African guidance, fruitful negotiations by over 400 experts from 80 countries have resulted in the development of a working draft for a global standard on social responsibility, the ISO 26000.

Social

Jonathon Hanks

Global Environmental Sustainability

One size does not fit all When it comes to feeling the effects of climate change, developing countries are in for a very different ride compared to developed countries.

Global

Stuart Rothgiesser