Water, Water Scarcity Crisis, Water pollution
Resources & Information related to Water, Water Scarcity Crisis, Water pollution and more.
Resources & Information related to Water, Water Scarcity Crisis, Water pollution and more.
A new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project, CDP Water Disclosure Global Report 2011: Raising corporate awareness of global water issues presents water findings from 190 companies around the world.

I wrote about the innovative, waterless dyeing technique pioneered by a Dutch company, DyeCoo in August last year. It appears that Nike liked the look of this technology and will now be working with the company to reduce water use. The technique uses recycled carbon dioxide to dye synthetic fibers and uses absolutely no water. Nike [...]

Investor groups, coordinated by Ceres, announced they’ve filed shareholder resolutions with Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips and 14 other oil and gas companies, “pressing them to disclose their plans for managing environmental and workplace challenges such as hydraulic fracturing, greenhouse gas emissions and woker safety.”

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Unilever announced the launch of the Unilever Foundation, a global charity that will be key to helping the company reach its goal of improving the health and quality of life of more than one billion people around the world. This is an ambitions goal, but it’s one that fits very well with Unilever’s brand and strengths.

The UN High-Level Panel Global Sustainability released its report in Addis Ababa yesterday entitled “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing.” The panel’s 99-page report, which will serve as an input to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June, (otherwise known as the Rio+20 Summit) is a call to action, “to address the sustainable development challenge in a fresh and operational way.”

Readers of TriplePundit don’t need reminding that the waste stream derived from buying bottled water is an environmental hazard. Less than a third of all plastic bottles get recycled in the USA, when they could be put to effective second-life use. Ford Motor Company announced last week that in partnership with REPREVE, they plan to [...]

The EPA announced that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution. This may influence the highly contentious debate in New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to lift the ban on fracking in the Marcellus Shale area. “If fracking is so safe, why does it need loopholes?”

The following post is part of the course work for “Live Exchange” the foundational course on communication for The MBA Design Strategy Program at California College of the Arts. The rest of the posts are presented here. By Ryan Wilday As an industrial designer, and design strategist, I am a prolific user of paper. Whether [...]

Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee recently released a report in which it argues that the “perfect storm” of declining water supply and rising demand are likely to make water the critical limiting resource of our time. The report, entitled “Peak Water: The Preeminent 21st Century Commodity Story,” paints a convincing picture of a world that is [...]
By Andy Wales, SABMiller plc Whilst the debates at Durban struggle to agree a way forward on climate, a more fundamental change is needed in the form of a paradigm shift in viewing the world’s environmental problems. Today, environmental challenges are still often looked at as standalone crises. But the challenges around climate change, water, [...]

Marketing can make people eat McDonald’s hamburgers, wear shoulder pads, and buy that new laundry detergent even though the old one is fine. It basically compels masses of people to run along with the latest fad. If marketing is so successful in changing our lifestyles, why is it so difficult to use it to promote more sustainable behavior?
One of the most humbling and inspiring presentations at Opportunity Green 2011 was given by Gaylon White, Director of Design Programs for Eastman Chemical Company. He told the story of the development of a new water treatment technology called the HydroPack. The HydroPack is a twelve-ounce plastic bag that can be thrown into any (that’s right, ANY) contaminated water source and within eight to twelve hours, it produces an electrolyte and nutrient enriched drink free of viruses, bacteria, and even heavy metals.

San Francisco is unique among California cities in having a combined stormwater runoff and sewer system. Stormwater surges can overload the system and send overflows to the San Francisco Bay with minimal treatment. One way to fix this is to minimize the stormwater flow: intercepting it before it hits the sewer system.
We are MBA students studying the interconnections of sustainability and business at the Presidio Graduate School. As part of our curriculum, we are developing a capital markets mechanism to monetize ecosystem services that would incentivize communities to preserve and/or rehabilitate vital local ecosystems, such as watersheds. This is a letter of inquiry to engage the Packard Foundation (the Foundation) as an investor in a proof of concept pilot project for the above model.

Given the twin concerns of peak oil and climate change, it’s no surprise that natural gas (with its lower carbon intensity than coal) has been hailed by many as the salvation of our modern way of life, at least for now. And with the discovery of enormous deposits under Marcellus Shale in the Eastern US, [...]

3p is proud to partner with the Presidio Graduate School’s Managerial Marketing course on a blogging series about “sustainable marketing.” This post is part of that series. To follow along, please click here. By: Chad Reese Over the last few years, the concept of the urban vertical farm has captured the imagination of many. The [...]
This post was originally published on the Ashoka Changemakers blog and is republished with kind permission. By: John Converse Townsend The 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace introduced a different kind of villain to popular audiences: Dominic Greene, the ruthless capitalist with a sinister scheme to take control of Bolivia’s water supply and, under [...]
If you were a tree, the question of where you were planted would have significant impact on your future prospects. The same is true for wind turbines.

Many people are becoming increasingly concerned about the ability of farmers to feed our ever-increasing population, and with good reason. Consider the following set of circumstances: Human population is increasing rapidly. It is expected to reach 9 billion by 2040. As prosperity rises, more and more people are moving higher up the food chain, putting [...]
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