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Climate change canvas

USA – climate change canvas

Artist: Ashley Cecil
Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Oxfam’s Canvas for Change exhibition brings together artistic stories and voices from around the world, showing how those most vulnerable are affected and striving to cope with increasingly unpredictable weather patterns.”

More about Ashley Cecil at:

http://www.ashleycecil.com/

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Blog Action Day on Climate Change, October 15

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Responsibility Across Borders

Global Dialogue Conference 2009 www.globaldialogueconference.org
Responsibility—climate change as challenge for intercultural inquiry on values
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

An international conference that will bring together the world’s leading experts on responsible investments, corporate responsibility, intercultural ethics and political theory, environmental journalism, and intercultural education for sustainability.

Climate change requires globally concerted actions, but our moral principles of action are local: They are tied to a culture or religion, and often in conflict with each other.
Can we develop a notion of joint global ecological responsibility? This is the most important question in the debate about climate protection, since motivation is the key to change and responsibility across borders is the key to global change.
Here is why this conference stands out and might be of extra importance to you:

  • Cross-cultural differences in value commitments and models of responsibility matter for intercultural marketing, management, and negotiation in transcultural contexts.
  • The conference will present cutting edge research on socially responsible investment networks and corporate social and ecological responsibility.
  • The conference will offer practitioners a forum for critical discussion of problematic aspects of the implementation of corporate responsibility in transcultural contexts of communication and organization.
  • In praxis report sessions practitioners may showcase successful implementations of corporate social or ecological responsibility.
  • Conference sponsors (silver and gold sponsors) may participate in a broadcasted panel discussion with journalists, business research experts, and activists, to discuss whether businesses are merely ‘green-washing’ their interests or aim for genuinely responsible actions.

For more information visit www.globaldialogueconference.org or contact the conference manager: Jacob Bock, filbock@hum.au.dk

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The Justmeans CSR and Social Media Summer Internship

Justmeans is recruiting a cohort of CSR and Social Media Summer Interns for the summer of 2009. Applicants should be enrolled in, or have just completed an MBA program and have an interest in sustainability, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility and responsible investing.

Applicants will answer one of the following two questions reflecting their philosophy related to sustainability and responsibility.

  1. Is Social Responsibility more or less important in a recession?
  2. Why is the Press Release dead?

May 1, 2009, 11:59 p.m.: Application and voting deadline.

Read more at:

http://www.justmeans.com/challenge/CSRinternship

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European Multistakeholder Forum on CSR

On 10th February 2009 the European Commission is hosting a plenary meeting of the European Multistakeholder Forum on CSR. The aims of this meeting are to review progress on CSR in Europe and globally, and to discuss possibilities for future joint initiatives.

The Forum will bring together about 250 persons from key stakeholder groups, including employers and business representatives, trade unions, investors, academics, civil society organisations and public authorities.

Among the speakers are: Olivier de Schutter, Simon Pickard, David Grayson, Etienne Davignon, Richard Howitt. The draft agenda is available here.

The meeting can be followed live on the web

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Do the Green Thing!(2)

Andy Hobsbawn, the creator of Green Thing is talking about the benefits of going green:)) Many good things can happen  if you decide to take a walk!

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