by Andrew Winston
This may be hard for anyone below 40 to fathom, but companies didn’t always fire people to save money. IBM was famous for “full-time employment,” but then its first layoffs in the early 90s changed the game forever. Over the last 20 years it has become (supposedly) good management practice to slash people [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Get Lean on Energy Costs, Not People
September 30, 2009 – 11:24 pm
Increase the pressure – 69 days left
September 30, 2009 – 1:44 pm
69 days left, increase the pressure sign the petition that will be handed over to representatives of the US and Chinese governments.
Mats Schultze, Stockholm, Sweden
No time to lose!!!
Anders Wigelsbo, Sweden
Not buts, no ifs… the time to act is NOW! For once, set aside egocentricity and short term economic interests… co-operate!
Anna Lindbäck, Sweden, Stockholm
This is our [...]
Meet Cortus at Globe Forum Gdansk
September 29, 2009 – 2:36 pm
Cortus is a great best practice example of a Globe Forum Facilitator company that have worked enthusiastically to reach out and communicate its advantageous technology. Cortus’ gasification technology allows for energy-intensive industries such as steel, pulp and paper to green their activities without sacrificing productivity.
Recently an environmental permit was granted for Cortus’s first 5MW demonstration [...]
2 degree – Globe Forum is engaged, are you?
September 28, 2009 – 10:21 am
The two-degree campaign has been set up to increase public pressure before the climate negotiations get underway in Copenhagen in December. There are high hopes that a global climate agreement will be drawn up, but there are difficulties in getting all the countries to sign up to an agreement.
Go to http://www.2grader.se/en/ and sign the petition [...]
Take the way to sustainability through regeneration
September 23, 2009 – 10:23 am
For many old industrial cities regeneration is necessary to become sustainable. A great case of this is the Globe Award winning project in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Cardiff has shown a deep understanding of the importance of moving towards a knowledge based economy within a holistic perspective on sustainability. Cardiff demonstrates practices of a sustainable city with [...]
The race of the cities
September 22, 2009 – 8:01 am
Berlin, Dublin, Curitiba, Gdansk, Stockholm, Boston, Eindhoven, Barcelone or Hong Kong are all cities claiming to work towards sustainability.
Globe Forum is always on the look out to collaborate with cities who understand the meaning of hosting a marketplace that supports sustainable innovation and research that helps corporations and organizations to find a sustainable way of doing [...]
Sustainability
September 21, 2009 – 8:02 am
Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. It can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Sustainable maintenance of the natural world and the responsible use [...]
The Convention Centre Dublin
September 18, 2009 – 10:10 am
The Convention Centre Dublin will be the first carbon neutral international convention centre in the world as the impact of the building’s construction on the environment is zero.
Designed to meet the highest standards of environmental sustainability, the venue is being constructed with concrete that has a zero carbon footprint.
Long-term operational requirements have also been prioritised, [...]
Gdansk
September 10, 2009 – 10:18 am
The Globe Forum office is at the moment working a lot from Gdansk, Poland. In October 28th-29th Globe Forum will organise a large sustainability conference here.
The city is absolutely fascinating! It is beautiful, mysterious and history is always present.
You have a large population with scars from some of the worst episodes of European history, but [...]
