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The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) in North America proudly hosted its second Sustainability Roundtable on September 1st in Chicago. The event titled, "Moving Sustainability Forward at a Time of Economic Slowdown", focused on the materiality of an organization's Sustainability Strategy and discussed the challenges in keeping the Sustainability actions close to the organization's core activities.

New legislation has just passed by Barack Obama that requires every business in the U.S. to have a Sustainability Officer or a Green Officer. One of the jobs these Green Officers is to develop a sustainability performance plans. Also, businesses must create a committee on federal sustainability. Green Officer Training can help companies meet the demands of this new executive order.

3BL (Triple Bottom Line) Media and the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) announced today a strategic partnership which will provide CSE clients with access to the world's largest corporate social responsibility and sustainability news distribution network.

The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) in North America successfully extended the momentum of corporate training in CSR and Sustainability by hosting its CSR Practitioners' Workshop in the US on September 1-2, 2009.

As part of its rebranding effort, SDialogue (formerly SRB Marketing) is currently running its $10,000 "S Contest," and using audio and video to promote the contest to other organizations with a sustainability story to tell. It's also giving participants multimedia options for entering - participants can enter the contest with a short written argument for why they should be chosen at the firm's website or Facebook page, or can add or substitute a video at its YouTube page. The winner gets $10,000 worth of sustainability strategy and communications services.

As part of our sustainable development interview series, Leila Chirayath Janah, CEO of Samasource was kind enough to share some of her thoughts with us today. A big thank you to Leila and her team for taking the time out of their busy schedules... 1. Could you briefly explain your role and responsibilities within the organization?

Colorado Rocky Mountain School Work Crews provide an avenue for students to take leadership roles and initiate change on campus toward creating a more sustainable life. The Recycling Work Crew maintains recycling stations in all the dorms and major buildings. They collect recycled materials and take them to the local recycling center.

There are so many common misconceptions surrounding sustainability. Check out this myth-busting video "What's Your Big Green Lie?!" which gives a taste of the widespread ignorance of green issues at http://www.biggreenlies.com.

As part of our ongoing interview series, Nigel Waller, CEO of Movirtu, shares his thoughts on applying technology and mobile solutions to help those people at the "base of the pyramid" (BoP).

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Corporate Social Responsible News: Newmont Mining + Dow Jones Sustainability Index; Greenergy 2030's Business Alliance; China CSR Research Center's Rankings

Corporate Responsibility Officer Summit Chair Jay Whitehead today announced that the speaker lineup for the 5th annual CRO Summit, held October 6-7 at the Union League Club of Chicago will feature a record 7 CEOs-leaders of the corporate responsibility movement in sustainability, governance, compliance and philanthropy.

Corporate Social Responsible News: Clinton Global Initiative Partners Green for All + Living Cities; Proctor & Gamble's Sustainability Programs; UN Global Compact's Climate Change Conference Run Up

Despite its destructive reputation, the goat is really a marvelous animal. Talk about sustainable. They are almost entirely useable and recyclable. Goats are intelligent and curious. Trainable and affable. They are a renewable source of milk and fiber for yarn. They provide meat and hide. They make great pack animals, and are easier to raise and require less resources than cattle.

Last winter, my husband Dan and I noticed we were beginning to struggle in our quest for fresh, local food. As a Californian learning to endure my first Boston winter, I wanted more variety in our produce. At the same time Dan, a culinary school student, was learning more and more about the role of things like corn syrup and stabilizers in processed food. Between the two of us, we often ended up wondering what we could do to ensure that what we put into our bodies was healthy, fresh and ultimately unprocessed. So we took up cooking more and expanded our repertoire to include items like homemade bread, chicken stock, ice cream and others. Still, in hindsight we relied more often than we would have liked on cheap meat, poultry and dairy - often because it was what we could afford.

According to C.K. Prahalad, a professor of corporate strategy at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan, corporations seeking to create new markets addressing the needs of the billions of poor people living at the bottom of the economic pyramid can - and should - use that effort to drive sustainability and innovation within their own ranks.

Corporate Social Responsible News: Caterpillar's Dow Jones Sustainability Index Status; Alcatel Lucent's Eco-Award; SDialogue's Name Change

10 'Must Have' sites on CSR. 10 of the best blogs on CSR. 31 websites with excellent resources, links, media, tools, news and much more. 20 people to follow on twitter who will ensure you know everything there is to know about CSR and Sustainability.

What does our tree free, compostable packaging have to do with your healthy lifestyle?...EVERYTHING.