In my recent column for Greenbiz, I offered some advice to a mother who is re-entering the sustainability sector after a five-year career break. Balancing home and career can be a challenge – particularly so for mums and dads. Many of my clients have found that the flexibility they need can be hard to come by This post originally appeared on Walk Of Life
To be competitive in the growing sea of job seekers, you need to write tight, compelling bullet points on a CV to make the hiring manager read on. Or if you’re a freelancer, you need to impress potential clients with your proven track record and portfolio of achievements. Join me for this free workshop and This post originally appeared on Walk Of Life
Date: October 12th, 2010 @ 18:30
Location: 1 London Bridge, London, SE1 9BG
Panelists: Ben Powell, Founder of Agora Venture Fund and Mark Cheng, Director of Social Finance at Ashoka
Partner: Refreshments kindly sponsored by Ashoka
Register: http://impactinvestment.eventbrite.com
Ben is using Agora to demonstrate to donors, future business leaders, and investors that investing in impact entrepreneurs in the developing world is an effective means to fight poverty and unemployment. Like Muhammad Yunus used Grameen Bank to demonstrate the feasibility of banking to the poor, Ben is using Agora to show that entrepreneurs in the developing world are a profitable target for socially impactful […]
Prompted by a comment of James Cameron, that “every one in five pounds paid out as a dividend in 2009 came from BP” we checked the figures. It is indeed true.
UK companies paid out £56.9bn to investors in 2009.
BP and Shell paid a quarter of all UK dividends according to the Guardian newspaper.
BP alone paid out £10.9bn, i.e. just short of 20% of the UK total dividend.
So what?
Well, BP could be in the middle of the sort of crisis which cripples a company. The Deepwater Horizon blow-out is now expected to be the second worst […]
Join us at 6.30pm at the BBC’s flagship redevelopment in central London – Broadcasting House.
Following the Queen’s Speech announcement of an Energy Security and Green Economy Bill, Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent at the Financial Times; James Cameron, Founder of Climate Change Capital; and someone to represent the government perspective (tbc) will be discussing who in government and in business has the resources, the vision and the mandate to deliver the major changes which are needed to help the UK’s transformation to a sustainable economy.
We have also invited H2ope to give a short presentation on a programme […]
Earlier this week Renault were exposed by the Advertising Standards Authority for proudly advertising in the UK press a 90% reduction in carbon impact of the Renault Fluence, an electric powered vehicle due to launch in 2012. The company based the calculation on an assumption that the car is drawing its energy from the French grid, which is mostly nuclear powered and thus has a lower carbon footprint than the UK grid.
The ASA judgment is here: http://www.asa.org.uk/Compl…lt-UK-Ltd/TF_ADJ_48419.aspx
It remains to be seen if Renault (or at least its marketing staff) will be diligent in correcting their misleading marcomms.
Renault’s beautifully […]
We have posted some video clips from the Green Leaders event.
Scott McGregor of Camco discusses progress to systematise sustainability/emissions management in business in the UK and the US.
You can view Jeremy’s comments on Peak Oil and the process of “re-engineering capitalism” which is needed to avoid severe global macroeconomic impacts.
