星期三, 三月 31st, 2010
Ethisphere.com has released it’s list of the top 100 most ethical companies of 2010.
The selection process starts from judging submission applications to more in-depth questionaires and analysis as the pool becomes smaller and smaller. Judges specifically look at the companies’ ethics and compliance programs, governance, and corporate responsibility (Ethisphere).
For a complete list of the winners, separated by industry, click here.
星期三, 三月 24th, 2010
1. The European Commission’s Europe 2020
The European Commission has come up with Europe 2020 as a new "growth plan" for members of the EU to overcome setbacks incurred as a result of the economic slump. Looking forward, Europe 2020 plans to focus on three major areas: growth from knowledge, creating an inclusive society, and building a greener economy that is competitive at the international level (Europe 2020).
Here are some of Europe 2020′s goals:
-Raise the employment rate among Europeans aged 20-64 from 69% to at least 75%
-Reduce the number of Europeans living below the national poverty line by 25% (lifting 20 million people out of poverty)
-Reduce greenhouse emission gasses by at least 20% (compared to 1990 levels), increase share of renewable energy by 20%, and and increase energy efficiency by 20%
-Allocate 3% of GDP towards Research & Development
2. Winners of 2009 European Design Award for a Sustainable Present Announced
1st Place: Bee House by James Ennis
Concept: Incorporating biodiversity and sustainable growth into modern everyday life through micro-habitation. The winning entry is a window box that allows the user to become involved in promoting survival of insects that are essential to the food production cycle by growing flowers and giving an environment for pollination and reproduction (Bee House).
2nd Place: Dynamic by Mauro Amoruso
Concept: An easy way to combat stress in everyday life and produce green energy simultaneously. This entry is a stress-relieving product that stores up energy that can re-charge batteries in small electronic appliances (such as a cell phone) by accumulating energy from a pumping motion similar to a stress ball (Dynamic).
3rd Place: USELESS.energy by Dominika Anna Rams
Concept: A simple product with a simple concept, to remind us of our never-ending energy consumption, a plug for open sockets to prevent leakage of energy when not in use. Also a plug for faucets to prevent water waste (USELESS.energy).
星期一, 三月 22nd, 2010
The following video can be considered an exposé on the recent proposal for Cap and Trade as a solution to reduce and control climate change. Government leaders and heads of big business corporations are pushing for this plan as a "win-win" situation where we can supposedly save the world while making money at the same time.
Annie Leonard and the producers of this video pull open the curtains covering the hidden traps in this plan, or the "devils in the details." According to Leonard, the plan not only allows for free permits (industrial polluters can get permits–to pollute–free) and offsetting (when companies reduce their carbon output, they get permits which can be sold to a polluter who wants to pollute more), but more importantly, this Cap and Giveaway solution is a distraction from finding real solutions.
Please, world leaders, wake up! There may not be a win-win solution to make money and simultaneously save the world, but let’s get our priorities straight.
The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo.
星期二, 三月 9th, 2010
1. 再生能源費率附加電費可望在今年 4月至 5月上路，經濟部表示，以對電價影響每度0.01元為計算基礎，估計再生能源附加電費實施第一年，每戶電費負擔將增加42元。根據規劃，民國 99年、100年再生能源的推廣預估值分別為104千瓩、215千瓩，估算明年度台灣電價受影響程度約為0.4%。(Yahoo!新聞)
2. 美國蘋果公司（Apple）坦承上游工廠雇用童工，生產電腦, iPod 和手機。蘋果在致供應商年度報告中指出：「這3座工廠，我們要求檢視年度僱用紀錄，以及完整的僱用程序分析，以釐清未成年人士如何能被錄取。」
蘋果屢次因工廠剝削員工和工作環境惡劣而備受抨擊，上週才傳出62名蘋果和諾基亞（Nokia）上游工廠員工正己烷（n-Hexane）中毒，這種有毒化學物會引起肌肉退化和視力模糊。勝華科技發言人表示，受到影響的工人「幾乎都」已經回去上班，只有一些人還在住院。(Yahoo! 新聞)
3. Robin Hood Tax
Click image to link to the Robin Hood Tax website
NPOs in the UK are promoting a new idea that uses a bank tax to raise hundreds of billions and fund projects that fight both domestic issues, such as education and child poverty, as well as global crises like climate change and poverty. (Robin Hood Tax)
星期二, 三月 9th, 2010
本屆增加了不少新做法，包括：首次公開未回券的企業名單、增設首屆CSR民意調查等。結果發現已有超過七成的企業，會按CSR表現選擇供應商，而今年的20家得獎企業，更不因景氣低迷而停止投入CSR，成就更顯卓越。
為了讓讀者瞭解與之最切身相關的企業CSR做法，《遠見》特請光寶、台灣杜邦、台灣晶技、台灣大哥大、住華科技、英特爾等6家標竿企業現身說法，分享他們的CSR創意。(遠見雜誌)
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星期一, 三月 8th, 2010
Reality based on fiction? The recent Hollywood action film "2012″ tells the story of the end of the world, marked by natural disasters. But 201o in the real world is also facing natural disasters, namely earthquakes, that are anything but fictional.
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 was not only devastating for the people of Haiti, but looking back also seems to have sparked a series of earthquakes around the world: less than two months later, on February 27, another big earthquake shook the world, this time in Chile.
Scientists believe that the Chilean earthquake–registered at an 8.8 magnitude–may have shifted the Earth’s axis by 3 inches, changing the length of one Earth day by 1.26 microseconds. (MSNBC)
Here in Taiwan we’ve had our own encounter with the earthquake mania: in the early morning of March 3, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. And just this morning another earthquake rocked the planet in Turkey, hitting at 5.9 magnitude at around 4:30 a.m. (CNN)
So what does all this mean for our planet? Scientists say that these quakes are not related (CNN), but nonetheless planet Earth seems to be staging a revolt. Though we have no power to control Mother Earth and her shakes and quakes, what we can do is try to appease her by giving back to the environment what we’ve taken away through the decades of industrialization and modernization.
This is where CSR comes in. While any one person–you, me, the stinky tofu vendor down the street–can do his or her part to live a "socially responsible" lifestyle, big corporations have the power, not to mention the money, to make a bigger contribution towards saving the planet.
Thankfully, CSR is becoming a trend that many companies–big and small, domestic and international–are beginning to catch on to. Let’s hope CEOs and Board Members around the world get to action, they could be the real-life superheroes this planet needs.
星期二, 二月 23rd, 2010
（中央社記者韓婷婷台北11日電）為協助國內上市櫃公司履行企業社會責任，追求企業永續發展，櫃買中心與台灣證券交易所共同制定上市上櫃公司企業社 會責任實務守則，期望企業能為環境及社會多盡一分心力。
櫃買中心表示，該守則將作為國內上市、上櫃公司落實企業社會責任基本參考原則。
櫃 買中心指出，隨著地球環境暖化問題日益嚴重，以及全球性金融風暴的發生，愈來愈多的國際組織及專 家開始呼籲企業應重視其社會責任 (Corporate SocialResponsibility，CSR) ，期許企業除了傳統經營宗旨－獲利之外，也能多考量公司在環境、社會、治理、人權等方面的責任與義務。
櫃買中心為因應此股國際間對於企業經 營的新趨勢，與台灣證券交易所共同研訂企業社會責任實務守則，希望上櫃公司能瞭解並進而參考履行社會責任。
守則內容涵蓋總則、落實推動公司 治理、發展永續環境、維護社會公益、加強企業社會責任資訊揭露以及附則。 (中央社)
星期二, 二月 23rd, 2010
知名媒體人陳文茜與廣告人孫大偉共同監製的台灣氣候變遷紀錄片「正負二度C」中午舉辦媒體試映會，陳文茜表示，這部影片集合了聯合國的專家以及台灣 國內的專家意見，以動畫圖表等手法，讓非氣象專業的民眾，在短時間內面對台灣氣候的真相，台灣必須自救，希望在暑假颱風季來臨前將訊息傳達出去。
正負二度C從去年莫拉克風災後的9月開始籌畫，10月開始進行攝製，不到5個月的時間完成，是第一部台灣氣候變遷的紀錄片。許多台灣演藝人員與藝文界人士 都全力參與、免費宣傳，台灣多家音樂出版社也在不收版權費的方式下，贊助這部紀錄片，使這部紀錄片得以在包含購買國外版權僅800萬元攝製預算內完成。(聯合新聞網)
星期四, 一月 28th, 2010
AP Photo/Jorge Cruz
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010 has left the country in dire need of international aid. The massive quake has taken an estimated 111,000 lives, and has left approximately 1.5 million Haitians homeless. 85% of the city of Leogane, the epicenter of the earthquake, has been destroyed.
Fortunately, to say that the plight of the Haitian people has attracted international attention and compassion is an understatement to say the least. At present, there are more than 500 international agencies in Haiti providing necessary aid, includingmedical care, heading rescue efforts, distributing donated survival goods, and managing orphaned children.
But beyond the initial donations of money, goods, and services, many worry about Haiti’s sustainability. Current efforts are dealing with the most immediate issues: searching for, and rescuing, survivors, treating patients, and keeping the survivors alive; but what happens when the so-called "compassion window" closes and Haiti must stand on its own two feet?
Randy Strash, Strategy Director for Emergency Response at World Vision, says that "In a disaster of this magnitude, charities typically have three to six weeks before the media and the public’s attention shifts… that’s how fast this ‘Window of Compassion’ closes."
If this is true, then the Haitian government, not to mention relief efforts in the country, should begin to focus their attention not only on the "here and now" but also for Haiti’s future–giving more thoughtto the country’s infrastructure and economy.
On the bright side, Haiti now has the opportunity to re-build in a more eco-friendly manner, making use of renewable energy technology that will not only help the country’s development, but the environment as well. Several corporations have already spearheaded efforts to provide long-term aid to Haiti, including Solar Electric Light Fund, Architecture for Humanity, and Trees for the Future.
Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair says, "When a disaster strikes the second disaster that looms is the efficiency and impact of the three R’s–Response, Recovery, and Reconstruction."
Sinclair also noted the importance of careful and thoughtful post-disaster planning, the absence of which could cause yet another collapse of Haitian society. With this in mind, Sinclair says that the best move now is to work with local NGOs and the community to find the best way to reconstruct this developing country.
With aid from such forward-thinking companies, Haiti will no doubt be put on the right path towards re-development, and in the face of a natural disaster of such magnitude, this is effective CSR at work. Re-constructing Haiti will not be easy, but learning from past mistakes–such as FEMA’s failureafter Hurrican Katrina–will allow relief workers to start on the right path.
For more information on what you can do to help Haiti’s sustainability, please visit:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/haiti-earthquake-relief-efforts.html
Sources:
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/rebuilding-haiti-cameron-sinclair.html
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/stronger-haiti-recovery-efforts.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/24/haiti.leogane/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/24/haiti.earthquake/index.html
星期四, 一月 21st, 2010
1.綠色和平組織持續關注電子業品牌大廠在Green Product (環境友善產品)的投入，最新公布調查報告顯示，最綠的企業是手機大廠Nokia和 Sony Ericsson；Dell, Lenovo及Toshiba則排名下降。 (Greenpeace研究)
2.台灣大哥大CSR企業社會責任報告書獲得第三單位BSI英國標準協會認證，是國內電信業第一本通過AA1000、GRI G3雙重國際標準查證的社會責任報告書，也是國內少數通過雙重查證的企業。 (台灣大哥大CSR報告書網站)
3. 環保署在18至19日舉辦一場「跟隨碳足跡—發現減碳新道路」國際論壇，邀請英國碳信託（Carbon Trust）國際發展經理Robin Dickinson、日本經產省碳足跡制度國際標準化委員會主席/東大教授稻葉敦、WBCSD資深研究員Dr.Laura Draucker。碳議題與碳經濟發燒，例如全球最大的連鎖零售商沃爾瑪於2009年7月16日宣布將實施永續產品指標，要求其供應商提供產品生命週期的環境資訊，此舉預計將影響沃爾瑪10萬個供應商。沃爾瑪會將這些訊息與價格一併標示在標籤上，供消費者了解。 (自立晚報)
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