Video of the highlights from the E-idea Indonesia event
Watch the highlights from the E-idea Winner’s Workshop event in Indonesia.
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LRQA/British Council E-idea Japan winner’s profile 6
Art School by FUNFAM Tsuneyuki Fujioka “Deforestation” has now become a hot issue worldwide, and there has been a tightening of timber harvesting regulations. In such a situation, bamboo has an important role as a sustainable and renewable resource. Through the use of bamboo kitchenware and its connection to the everyday habit of eating, children [...]
LRQA/British Council E-idea Japan winner’s profile 5
Energy Literacy Platform Shuichi Ishibashi Our vision is to optimize energy consumption in households in Japan by providing our “Energy Literacy Platform”, which will enable you to manage in a user-friendly way your household energy consumption. By creating a system to check real-time energy usage, we believe that we can enhance the energy literacy of [...]
LRQA/British Council E-idea Japan winner’s profile 4
Tie for Change Hiromi Morimoto Tie for Change (TFC) aims to help us change our perception and behavior from a position of “looking at what we don’t have” to one which “realises and embraces the richness of what we already have. TFC aims to contribute to sustainability by creating an ecological, educational and empowering platform, [...]
LRQA/British Council E-idea Japan winner’s profile 2
Cyclus Satoshi Yanagisawa The issues of sustainability has become widely recognized and an area of general interest. However, we have not yet got to grips with this ethos of sustainability to the degree we would like to think we have. Certainly, there has been a very ambitious socio-restructuring movement which contains lots of potential but [...]
LRQA/British Council E-idea Japan winner’s profile 1
Horses and Humans Together Tatsunori Kikuchi In Japan, the food infrastructure system- the most important element for survival- is weakening because of gap between the demand and supply. This gap is caused by several reasons including reduction in the land used for cultivation, and decreased food productivity stemming from a fall in the working-age population [...]
LRQA and British Council announce E-idea winners
Forty young eco-entrepreneurs triumphed over a field of 888 applicants in the E-idea competition held in seven Asia-Pacific countries to win up to £12,000 in seed funding as well as mentoring and international training opportunities for projects they have devised to address some of the biggest environmental challenges facing communities in the region. Read the [...]
Management Systems in Not-for-Profit Sector
Siingapore Zoo (part of WRS) is an example of a not-for-profit organisation in Asia that successfully deployed ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 to achieve its objectives.
Using BS 25999 to reduce risk and lower compliance costs
A recent research report, comprising of interviews conducted by IBM, with over 1200 chief financial officers from 79 countries, concluded the following points mentioned in the article.
exposure to economic risks increasing
One of the main conclusions from the report suggests that the disaster impact could have been reduced through resilient building design and the deployment of an early warning system complemented with good community preparedness.
Restoring Trust in CSR
This video interview with Alan Knight offers insight into the new AA1000AS standard. The standard will be launched in London on the 24th of October.
CSR Reporting in China
A website looks at the issues of Corporate Social Responsibility and how they are being delivered in China.
The YouTube! ISO14001 video
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.
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