Multipurpose Wrapping Cloth Helps To Reduce Household Waste – PSFK

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Published on November 7, 2010 8:56 pm.
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CHOICE guide to ethical investing

  • Most ‘ethical’ and ‘sustainable’ funds in Australia invest in big uranium mining companies such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Funds justify this on the basis that the uranium is used for nuclear energy, not weapons, or that the companies chosen get a limited proportion of their overall revenue from uranium, or that they have good environmental, social or corporate governance performance.
  • A number of sustainable funds invest in companies that have direct involvement in gambling. For example, some funds invest in Macquarie Bank, which has gaming joint ventures with Tattersalls in the UK and Publishing and Broadcasting (PBL).
  • Until recently, BT Financial Group’s Australian Sustainability Share Fund invested in PBL and poker machine producer Aristocrat Leisure. (The fund doesn’t currently hold those stocks, and BT also offers an ‘ethical’ fund that avoids investing in gambling, tobacco and companies that mine uranium for weapons manufacture. See Table 1 in Funds compared).
  • Sustainable Asset Management invests in Tabcorp and cigarette giant British American Tobacco, and its investment approach means that no legal industry (including, for example, armaments) is off limits.

    • - from choice.com.au

    Published on November 6, 2010 10:50 pm.
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    Bio | Daniel Goleman

    Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half; with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 30 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries.

    Goleman’s latest book is Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. The book argues that new information technologies will create “radical transparency,” allowing us to know the environmental, health, and social consequences of what we buy. As shoppers use point-of-purchase ecological comparisons to guide their purchases, market share will shift to support steady, incremental upgrades in how products are made – changing every thing for the better. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, was published in 2006.

    Published on January 27, 2010 3:37 pm.
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    SRD CHANGE 09: About

    SRD Change is a unique exhibition of graduate sustainable design that often directly challenges conventional expectations. Exhibits are selected from a diverse range of design areas from all of Sydney's top Universities. They feature innovative visual and 3D works, multimedia and even high fashion garments. Held annually since 2004 with healthy annual visitor numbers, we have plans in place to promote our exhibition to an even wider audience.

    Published on December 2, 2009 12:13 am.
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    DESIS NETWORK | Design for social innovation and sustainability

    DESIS is a network of schools of design and other schools, institutions, companies and non-profit organizations interested in promoting and supporting design for social innovation and sustainability. It is a light, no-profit organization, conceived as a network of partners collaborating in a peer-to-peer spirit.It is articulated in several DESIS-Local (that are sub-networks within a specified local area). DESIS-International is therefore the framework where the different DESIS-Local coordinate themselves and where some global initiatives are taken.
    DESIS-China aims to actively support design initiatives and projects in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability in China. That is, in the fields of the ecological reconversion of production and consumption systems, the social construction of services, and the balanced development of local areas. (more)

    Published on October 16, 2009 3:06 pm.
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    Good Design Exhibition 2009 at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub

    This year, the Good Design Award has conducted user-conscious screenings "from the viewpoint of near-future citizens," for users are not only the recipients of products and services, but also the ones who have the potential to enhance their values. In addition, Frontier Design Award has been newly established this year, with the purpose of promoting designs that are pregnant with ideas for future lifestyles.

    On view at the Good Design Exhibition 2009 are about 80 works, centering on special award-winning pieces honored with the Good Design Gold Prize. This exhibition aims to share with the audience the fascination and possibilities of creative future-oriented design by disseminating each designer's message and important design points that have the power to appeal to our society at large.

    Published on October 12, 2009 10:11 pm.
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    Good Design Exhibition 2009 at Tokyo Midtown Design Hub

    This year, the Good Design Award has conducted user-conscious screenings "from the viewpoint of near-future citizens," for users are not only the recipients of products and services, but also the ones who have the potential to enhance their values. In addition, Frontier Design Award has been newly established this year, with the purpose of promoting designs that are pregnant with ideas for future lifestyles.

    On view at the Good Design Exhibition 2009 are about 80 works, centering on special award-winning pieces honored with the Good Design Gold Prize. This exhibition aims to share with the audience the fascination and possibilities of creative future-oriented design by disseminating each designer's message and important design points that have the power to appeal to our society at large.

    Published on October 12, 2009 9:11 pm.
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    Public voting now open in Green Life – Netizens Choice Awards for sustainable design. Closing Nov 15 2009

    green life – netizens choice awards. the 7 grand awards have been notified on september 21, 2009
    the international jury distributed 35.000 USD, see the results here

    tell us what you like
    after a month-long open nomination process, public voting for
    designboom readers has started for the 'green life' shortlisted entries.
    let us know, based on your vision and experiences,
    what you'd like to see ranked as top 3 netizen award winners.
    designboom encourages you to vote for your favorite contestants.

    through your vote, you will generate an alternative results' page.
    the entry with the highest rating will be listed as first.
    you as readers can see how many votes each project has received.
    you are given a maximum of 10 votes for each competition.
    before voting you need to be registered.

    deadline for voting is november 15th, 2009

    Published on October 12, 2009 9:01 am.
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