Origins Natural Resources Inc. is a subsidiary of The Estée Lauder Companies and a brand with a strong environmental ethic embedded in its mission. After collaborating with integrative health specialist Dr. Andrew Weil, the Origins brand took its “green” commitments to a whole new level. Vice President of Packaging, John Delfausse, for example, headed a [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
City Challenge 2010
November 27, 2009 – 8:30 am
Today at the EUROCITIES meeting in Stockholm Maud Olofsson, Minister for Enterprise and Energy Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, urged all cities to take on the Globe Forum City Challenge!
Globe Forum has decided to challenge all European cities to share their sustainability projects to promote urban sustainable development. This challenge arose with the goal of [...]
Get up to speed, leverage your global network
November 24, 2009 – 8:21 am
Consumers around the world are more demanding than ever and require organizations to guide them to consume sustainable. Hence corporations and governments will have to forcefully make it ‘easy’ (eco-easy), for consumers to be more green, by restricting the alternatives.
Several companies have successfully challenged their internal processes to minimize the time it takes to bring [...]
2 degrees might be too much…
November 20, 2009 – 2:57 pm
László Szombatfalvy’s new book “Vår tids största utmaningar” (The big challenges of today) is really interesting.
He assesses the risk of 4 big mega threats of today: The pollution of the environment, the climate change, the political violence, and the world poverty.
The risks associated with these threats are much higher than the risk we normally accept within [...]
Indigenous Innovation in China
November 12, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Today I attended an interesting seminar about innovation in China, arranged by Vinnova.
A Chinese GDB growth of 8.9% Q3 2009, no crisis there….By 2020 China will invest 2.5% of their GDP in R&D in order to become an innovation-oriented society.
The problem in China according to Mr John Chiang from Peking University is a lack of entrepreneurship. The [...]
Did the temperature increase during the last decade?
November 11, 2009 – 10:12 am
According to Pew Research Center only 57 percent of the Americans believe that the world is getting warmer, a drop from 71 percent since last year. 36 percent believe the temperature increase is caused by humans, down from 47 percent.
Dagens Nyheter writes about this in todays editorial. They also write that the temperature has not increased during the [...]
Catch up with videos from Globe Forum Gdańsk
November 9, 2009 – 6:50 pm
Whether you are interested in the panel talks, innovators competitions or listen to the wisdom of the crowd the links below will guide you to all the videos from Globe Forum Gdańsk , both in English and Polish.
Globe Forum web
WirtualnaPolska
Capital24
Globe Forum youtube channel
Photos from Gdańsk
November 5, 2009 – 3:14 pm
Pictures from Globe Forum Gdańsk. Rising stars of business and sustainability met and networked at The Baltic Philharmonia which took place on the spectacularly renovated waterfront in Gdańsk.
Maximum profit – no longer a reason for a company to exist
November 5, 2009 – 10:19 am
- It’s rather obvious that we can’t continue “business as usual” if we want to survive. We need to create corporations built from a deep sense of responsibility for the common good, Hans Hassle CEO of Plantagon International AB continues. For Hans, this means core business that’s good for society, as well as democratic and transparent [...]
Thanks Gdansk and Thanks Poland!
November 2, 2009 – 1:31 pm
It’s over and it went so fast.
It was an amazing experience and we made it. We, the Globe Forum Team, succeeded in making the biggest conference that ever happened in Gdansk. We brought sustainability and innovation to discussion and we were astonished how the Polish market is into it.
Thank you Gdansk and thanks to all [...]
