LifeGate puts the environment at the center of doing business. One of its projects, Impatto Zero (Zero Impact), which lowers carbon emissions through reforestation, has created over 20 million square meters of new forests since the Italian company was founded in 2000 by entrepreneur Marco Roveda. Another LifeGate activity is LifeGate Engineering, which advises residences, businesses and public […]
This is the story of an architect who, having traveled to a school in Zambia and seen the often limited conditions in which the primary schools operate there, decided to devote some of her spare time to fund-raising and designing affordable and sustainable schools and housing in Africa. Erinn McGurn’s side project has turned into […]
The green economy, and balancing economic and environmental development, is an increasingly important topic in China. Global companies must demonstrate leadership in incorporating sustainability issues in their own operations and product offering. China is one of Nokia’s largest markets, and Nokia has had a substantial presence in the country for 25 years. Like in all […]
Using various forms of art and expression, artists are addressing today’s atrocities. Helen Doyle‘s film, Les Messagers (The Messengers), is one movie with a mission: it is a 2003 documentary that follows six artists whose work denounces war and barbarity. Produced by InformAction, the film is about the Muslim experience in the siege of Sarajevo. […]
Since the community was founded in 2007, the British Council Global Changemakers have grown into a group of over 600 teenagers from 110 countries whose stated mission is “to empower youth to catalyse positive social change.” They call themselves activists, volunteers and social entrepreneurs, and run their program around three pillars: learning, doing and advocacy. […]
China produces nearly half a billion tons of steel annually. The resulting steel slag production, the partially vitreous by-product of smelting ore to separate the metal from the rest, amounts to some 40 million tons. Decreasing iron ore resources, coupled with increasing energy costs, have led Shanghai-based Baosteel to find ways to process the steel […]
