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[ November 25, 2008; 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Speaker: Jem Bendell, Director, Lifeworth Consulting, Associate Professor, Griffith Business School

Venue: Seminar Room 2-2, Level 2, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772

This seminar discusses corporate responsibility trends and the implications for research, policy and management. Details and registration at the LKYSPP website.

Local News

Growing allure of ‘green-collar’ jobs in Singapore (Straits Times via Wildsingapore) - Students are eyeing green-collar jobs at a mini fair at the National University of Singapore, which showcases careers in renewable energy.
Wind power takes off in big way (Straits Times via Wildsingapore) - Vestas Wind Systems officially launched its $500 million wind research centre [...]

[ November 14, 2008; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Speaker: Ms Carrie Johnson, Senior Lecturer (Adjunct) for Masters in Environmental Management at NUS, and Director of PAIA Consulting

Venue: Level 10, Room 1002, NTUC Centre, 1 Marina Boulevard

The Singapore Environment Institute (SEI), ACCA Singapore and Singapore Compact for CSR are jointly organising the Sustainability Reporting Workshop. This workshop will explain what is sustainability reporting, its [...]

[ November 3, 2008 to November 4, 2008. ] The CSR Asia Summit 2008 will be held from 3-4 November at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. The annual CSR Asia Summit is organised by CSR Asia and provides insight into CSR topics related to Asia, including issues organised under the themes below:

Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Supply Chain Challenges
Community Investment, Social Innovation and Poverty [...]

As more companies jump on the green bandwagon and declare that they are green, there are some who are not being honest or who overstate their so-called green practices or products. In Singapore, greenwashing also occurs, and recent businesses accused of greenwashing include Starbucks, Tuas Power and Compass Point.
This article includes a list of simple principles that you can apply [...]

The National CSR Survey was released yesterday by the Singapore Compact for CSR, together with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Singapore Business Federation. The survey was conducted with about 500 companies, both large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and measured their awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR), including what it meant to [...]

Local News

International panel to review BCA’s green plans (Business Times via Wildsingapore) - The Building and Construction Authority has invited five international experts to review its green building plans and recommend new directions for Singapore’s green building efforts.
Can a green F1 ever exist? (Straits Times Blogs)- The environment takes a backseat during the F1 Grand [...]

[ August 21, 2008; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Speaker: Ms Carrie Johnson, Director of PAIA Consulting and Senior Lecturer (Adjunct) at NUS

Venue: Level 22, SBF Seminar Room 1, 10 Hoe Chiang Road, Keppel Towers, Singapore 089315

The Singapore Environment Institute (SEI), ACCA Singapore and Singapore Compact for CSR are jointly organising the Sustainability Reporting Workshop to help companies and organisations understand the relevance of sustainability [...]

trendwatching.com, an Amsterdam-based independent trend firm, scans the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. For their June 2008 Trend Briefing, the focus is on 3 trends for the branding of eco products and services: ECO-ICONIC, ECO-EMBEDDED and ECO-BOOSTERS. Read the full Trend Briefing.
1. ECO-ICONIC
Eco-friendly goods and services sporting bold, iconic [...]

Green Business Times is starting an advice column, which will be published every Friday under the Ask category. Send us your questions related to business and the environment, or related to topics covered on Green Business Times. The questions would help us to understand what you are concerned about or interested in.
We will choose the best questions and [...]