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The State of the Sustainable Furniture Industry
The furniture industry explains its reluctance to lead the environmental sustainability movement.

Environmental Awareness
Last year I researched a number of organizations that had an exceptional business. Among the many things that I learned was that each one is focused on environmental issues. The level of environmental focus varied from one organization to another, but the consistent finding was that the commitment started at the top, it came from the leader.
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment
As corporations have got bigger and bigger, they have damaged the environment in different ways. The exploitation of the world’s resources through overmining, overfarming and overfishing is putting our future in doubt. As these shortages influence the market, corporations will have no option but to seek other ways of doing business. As marginal lands become deserts, fossil fuels run dry and fish stocks deplete, the necessity of a sustainable environment will become obvious. What we want is for companies to realise this obligation now, before it is too late.
Governance and Sustainable Development
Poor governance poses a number of obstacles to human development.
Economic Growth, Sustainable Development, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Economic growth is essential for sustainable development and improving social outcomes.4 Growth usually—but not always—benefits the poor; in about 90 percent of the cases in which countries have experienced per capita GDP growth of at least 2 percent per year over a five-year period, the poor also experienced rising real incomes.

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Create a "Green" Office
Businesses small and large alike are determined to incorporate sustainability within business operations. This article describes simple measures which will help businesses improve their environmental performance.
Communicating Your Corporate Sustainability Strategy
As more companies publicly disclose their corporate social responsibility and sustainability efforts in annual reports, press releases, investor presentations and marketing collateral it will be crucial for good communications. There is a risk of under-and-over stating your sustainability story to the public. Increasingly the general public and all stakeholders are becoming more educated on best practices in corporate governance, social responsibility, environmental management, and sustainable business models and practices.

A Stimulus for a Better World: Give them Sustainability without Compromise
Sustainability sounded good when money was flowing in. But now that the economy is broken, business sustainability is taking a back seat to business survival. However, now more than ever, this is a time to advance your business case for sustainability as a top-line and bottom-line strategy for not just survival, but long-term growth and profitability.
Koch Industries' Environmental Crimes
The Koch companies have a notorious environmental record. According to Greenpeace, in the last 15 years they have amassed an impressive rap sheet that includes everything from environmental violations to negligence causing death.
Canon Reaffirms Green Procurement Program for Earth Day
Canon Middle East commemorated Earth Day by reaffirming its commitment to green purchasing. They have reduced their use of resources and minimized their production of waste. Canon is serious about the sustainability of its own operations and they are expanding the green market by encouraging their suppliers to comply with environmental certification systems. To continue reading go to THE GREEN MARKET.

Sustainable Business is Good Business
Sustainability is a worldwide movement that is changing the way we do business. Sustainability is a megatrend that reflects a general shift in thinking or approach affecting entire countries, industries, and organizations. Sustainability is the next transformational business megatrend comparable to mass production, manufacturing quality movement, IT revolution, and globalization.

Best Practices for Sustainability and Communicating Sustainability
A sustainable best practices program involves a comprehensive and holistic approach that encompasses everything a business does that impacts the environment. A successful sustainability initiative demands the willing participation of employees. Businesses also need to understand how to communicate sustainability in a way that conveys their environmental initiatives while enhancing their internal and external brand.

The State of the Sustainable Furniture Industry
The furniture industry explains its reluctance to lead the environmental sustainability movement.

Poverty reduction by trade and production capacity building in less privileged economies
SMEs play a decisive role at all Millennium Development Goals targets, but especially as regards Goal 1 (end poverty and hunger). WUSME's approach: Trade and production capacity building in less developed economies, Goal 7 (environmental sustainability) and Goal 8 (global partnership), all of them targets perfectly correlating with WUSME's Declaration of Purpose approved by the Founding Conference on 23rd April 2010 in San Marino.
Revolutionize Your Business to Keep up With Rapidly Changing Trends
Our business environment is rapidly changing. The decisions you make are based on information and facts currently available. Should new and relevant facts present themselves, you will want to evaluate them and grow to meet the challenge of the changing situation. Your ideal as a business owner is to become more innovative and productive so that you can better compete and capitalize on social, economic, and environmental trends. That could mean implementing Sustainability as a business model.

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