CSR Blogs

If only sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) were simple and easy to execute. On the contrary, their very complexity is shifting and shaping the current and global professional landscape. And with these changes come a host of new questions, a bevy of new challenges, countless creative successes, and even more demoralizing failures as businesses, nonprofits, governments, and individuals attempt to embrace sustainability and CSR on both the professional and personal levels.

In this everchanging space, Justmeans Staff writers use their knowledge and expertise to bring you the leading stories and facts to help readers stay current on all these issues. As the business world continues to grapple with sustainability and CSR, Justmeans will continue to write about it.

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Innovation & Technology

New York City Gears Up for Technology Leadership
According to the UN Commission on Science, Technology and Innovation, technological advancement is a development megatrend that will play a major role in implementing SDGs.

Innovation & Technology

The Disruption of Local Living, Investing and Cheese
Peering through the window, San Francisco-based Mission Cheese looks like a cool cheese and wine bar, an intimate and hip place for a date or business meeting.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Corporate World Moves Forward with Human Rights Transparency
​Supply chain transparency regarding human rights ​is becoming an increasingly important CSR issue.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Blended Finance is the Way Forward for a Sustainable World
Blended finance is the new buzzword that can be heard with increasing frequency at the meetings of the IMF, the World Bank or the World Economic Forum.

Environment

How Hortau Helps Farmers Produce More Crops With Less Water
At a time when water conservation is high profile because of California’s nearly five-year drought, a company that provides more efficient irrigation systems for farmers is important.

Innovation & Technology

United Technologies Proves Sustainability Works
Water and food are two essential things that humans need to survive.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Boxed Water ​Relaunches ReTree, Aims At 200,000 Trees in 2016
Boxed Water, the sustainable ​consumer ​water company that sells water in cartons instead of bottles, has announced ​the relaunch of​ its ReTree program in partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) whereby they will plant more than 200,000 trees in 2016.

Environment

We Mean Business Highlights Post-Paris Opportunities
Global leaders have converged to New York this week to sign the ​agreement thrashed out at the ​COP21 in Paris in December 2015.

Environment

US and UK Studies Issue Warnings About Financial and Health Impacts of Climate Change
A new study by the London School of Economic (LSE), published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, says climate change could cut the value of the world’s financial assets by $2.5tn (£1.7tn).

Innovation & Technology

Simprints: Changing Vulnerable Children’s Lives with Affordable Technology
Globally, the births of more than 50 million children – representing 40 per cent of the total births worldwide – go unregistered each year.

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