Going green is highly profitable for three reasons: it cuts costs, reduces risk against rising energy and electricity prices and can increase revenue because a large segment of consumers want to buy products and services from green companies.

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North American corporations dispose of millions of PCs a year – with sensitive corporate and customer data on them. The introduction to this white paper looks at the risks that businesses incur by not properly disposing of end of life electronics

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The Globe and Mail’s Leading Thinkers series on Corporate Responsibility video features Jim talking on why economics is a far greater driver of sustainability than guilt. See http://bit.ly/ltG909
Two videos that follow it are:
1) Energy efficiency mitigates the risk of rising energy prices http://bit.ly/l9h1iF
2) Shifting the debate from [...]

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The Globe and Mail’s Leading Thinkers series on Corporate Responsibility video features Jim talking on why economics is a far greater driver of sustainability than guilt. See http://bit.ly/ltG909
Two videos that follow it are:
1) Energy efficiency mitigates the risk of rising energy prices http://bit.ly/l9h1iF
2) Shifting the debate from [...]

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The Globe and Mail’s Leading Thinkers series on Corporate Responsibility video features Jim talking on why economics is a far greater driver of sustainability than guilt. See http://bit.ly/ltG909
Two videos that follow it are:
1) Energy efficiency mitigates the risk of rising energy prices http://bit.ly/l9h1iF
2) Shifting the debate from [...]

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North America contains just five per cent of the world’s population, yet we consume 33 per cent of the world’s resources. If every person on the planet consumed as much as us, we would require at least four more planets to feed the demand. At the heart of our unsustainable North [...]

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Oil and gas subsidies total $500 billion a year globally!!

Why are global governments subsidizing the most profitable corporations in the world?

Seven of the top 20 most profitable companies worldwide were oil companies in 2008 – and their cumulative profit roughly equaled the other 13 companies added together.

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Laptop sales surpassed desktop shipments in the U.S. in 2005, according to Current Analysis, and worldwide in 2008, according to iSuppli. This makes computing more ubiquitous than ever before, but with enhanced portability comes increased risk of losing your data. Notebooks are more easily and frequently lost, stolen, dropped, exposed to [...]

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Hands-free driving laws are now in effect in B.C., Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Drivers can only use a mobile phone with headset or an in-car speaker kit. These allow drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and eyes (mostly) on the road. The laws also typically [...]

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