With a new "Product Survey" launched at the CeBIT trade exhibition on electronics, Greenpeace International challenges the IT industry on the environmental performance of their products.

The Sustainable Entrepreneur Programme aims at developing and implementing a one-year part-time leadership programme on sustainable entrepreneurship. It will promote new enterprises, whose core activities are centered on creating social and/or environmental benefits. Especially due to the rising number of people who focus their lifestyles on health and sustainability (LOHAS) there is a growing market e.g. for organic food or ethical fashion as well as a growing number of business ideas in the fi [...]

Resource efficiency and resource productivity issues are receiving growing attention worldwide. Reasons include recent resource scarcities and rising prices of certain commodities as well as the contribution of resource consumption to climate change.

As value chains become global, resources increasingly flow across national boundaries during the different phases in value chains. Extraction, manufacturing, consumption and end-of-life treatment often happen in different countries or even conti [...]

CSCP takes part in international conference

On October 16 to 19, 2008 the 7th International Science Conference on Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change will take place in Delhi, India. As a follow-up to the 2005 Bonn Open Meeting the upcoming 7th International Science Conference will concentrate on human and social dimensions of global environmental change.

Centenary of the German Werkbund – reflecting design and society

On November 26, 2007 a wide range of leading experts will present and discuss contemporary design issues at the Frankfurt Municipal Museum of Decorative Art. The form and design of structures and products profoundly influences social interaction and society as a whole.