International Centre for Business Innovation and Sustainability http://icbis.org Implementing sustainability in the core activities of the enterprise. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:04:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Welcome to ICBIS http://icbis.org/uncategorized/welcome-to-icbis http://icbis.org/uncategorized/welcome-to-icbis#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:24:14 +0000 Ron Nielsen http://icbis.org/dev/?p=54 Check this section regularly for news items on business sustainbility – how it’s evolving, what impact it’s having, who’s doing what …

And send any contributions you may come across to us to be posted here by e-mailing: info@icbis.org

Some Examples of recent information on sustainability

Cadbury: A Testbed for Stewardship - Wall Street Journal, 7 January 2010

Managers embrace sustainability principles - Financial Times, 22 June 2009

Serious about reporting - Ethical Corporation, June 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility: A stress test for good intentions - The Economist, 14 May 2009

]]> http://icbis.org/uncategorized/welcome-to-icbis/feed 1 Here is an interesting introduction to the concept of sustainability http://icbis.org/uncategorized/heres-an-interesting-intro-to-the-concept-of-sustainability http://icbis.org/uncategorized/heres-an-interesting-intro-to-the-concept-of-sustainability#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:31 +0000 Ron Nielsen http://icbis.org/dev/?p=6

This video shows the fundamental challenges we face as a global community – which then translate into the more regional and local challenges we confront day-to-day.

Think about the often-cited interpretation of sustainable development from “Our Common Future”:  ‘… meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs … ‘ as you watch this short video.

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