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...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...Having just arrived, even a massage at the Explora spa seems like a waste of an hour. I’m sure my tastes will adapt, but nature and the outdoors beckon....
...In December, the environment ministry noted an “alarming” decline in air quality and ordered local authorities to clamp down on forest fires, illegal burning of refuse and agricultural waste, particularly...
...Like scouring the forest for a glimpse of Big Foot, developing life-saving technology is no walk in the park....
...The Alden website remains vague, greeting visitors with a sun-drenched forest fit for desktop screensavers — and nothing else....
...Michael Levine Executive vice-president and general counsel, Local Initiatives Support Corporation As the long-serving general counsel of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a Community Development...
...Harold Gerstel, a jewellery buyer in the Toronto neighbourhood of Forest Hill, set up a sideline in mortgages using “friends and family money” in 2013....
...Furthermore, with President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on extravagance and waste, it is campaigning against lavish funerals, urging officials to have their ashes scattered in a forest or at sea....
...Not just individual bloggers and other self-publishers, but also companies and corporations....
...While laying waste to the rest of the country, William the Conqueror “came friendly” to London, recognised the liberties of its citizens, pledged to defend their freedoms and fortified the City against barbarian...
...Resysta’s sales have risen fivefold, reducing demand for hardwoods from natural forests....
...It is also helping to push the concept of benefit corporations (popularly known as “B corps”), listed companies that pledge to operate in the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, suppliers...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Markets, up Sino-Forest investors file $6.6bn claim Two investors in Sino-Forest, the Chinese forestry company fighting allegations of fraud, have filed a detailed claim against the company’s management...
...The report raised questions over Sino Forest’s accounting for the value of forest land owned in China and for sales routed through “authorised intermediaries”, timber trading customers....
...Field Court, Lake Forest, IL 60045; 866-456-5439; www.pactiv.com....
...One senses an organisation neutron-bombing itself: laying waste to its people while leaving a lot of shiny buildings behind....
...Arvind Panagariya, professor of economics at Columbia University, has called for the indicators to be scrapped....
...In the 1930s, the US Resolution Trust Corporation allowed insolvent banks to collapse while investing preferred shares in healthier ones....
...Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal By Tristram Stuart Penguin, £9.99 While 1bn people go hungry, we privileged few throw away more than enough food to feed them....
...Wool waste and cotton waste are chargeable to basic customs duty of 15 per cent. These are used in the manufacture of cheaper varieties of textile articles such as blankets and rugs....
...Then, in 1987, she became the first female president of Columbia Pictures....
...“Without the company, this forest probably wouldn’t be here,” she says of the 230 hectare (568 acre) forest....
...Therefore, big established corporations should not even try to create radical new markets....
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