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Title: Energy efficiency and management
Date: July 24, 2008
This article was published on China environmental information for a discussion on energy management system establishment in a company and the methods for energy efficiency management.
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Title: Enterprise sustainable development strategy
Date: June 20, 2008
This article was published on China environmental information for a discussion on the importance of making a sustainable development strategy for a company and how to do it with a case study in packaging design considering life cycle environmental impacts.
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Title: Life cycle management-a guide to business sustainability
Date: June 15, 2009
This article was written by Bill Kung for the International Green Product Forum, the key content of the article includes background of LCM, application and practice of life cycle thinking and management in business and so on.
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Title: Ecovane Sustainability Newsletter-Issue No. 1
Date: June 22, 2009
Abstract of this first issue: Chinese economy has achieved continuous growth since the early 1980s, however the growth isn't without pain and sacrifice on resource and environment quality, and the carrying capacity of the earth, the existing linear expansion model are not regarded as sustainable. To help the economy in China to stand forward, if not forefront of the sustainable development, Ecovane is going to put together the knowledge, experience and tools of sustainability into our newsletter, we hope the peanut of sustainability will bring some more and more green seeds to the land of business in China.
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Title: An article by Crille on sustainability thinking
Date: July 10, 2009
Author: Cyrille Jeru
This article was written by Cyrille Jeru of the Natural Step (UK) for the Ecovane Sustainability Newsletter, as a contribution from Natural Step to the business sustainability education in China. The article is written in English.
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Title: Business Sustainability in Retail Industry
Date: July 10, 2009
This article was written by Bill Kung, in this paper major issues relevant to sustainability of retail industry was discussed and improvement suggestion was given. This paper was prepared in Chinese.
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Title: Life cycle management-a bridge to more sustainable products
Date: July 10, 2009
This article was prepared by Allan A Jensen, as a complementary paper to Mr. Allan's speech on the International Green Product Forum, in this paper the author explained the concept of life cycle thinking and management and their application in business and product development and also explained why LCM can assist in the product sustainability.
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Title: Green IT by Martin S?derberg of TCO (Sweden)
Date: July 14, 2009
This article was prepared by Mr. Martin_S?derberg,as a complementary paper to his speech on the International Green Product Forum, in this paper the author summarises the speech on the conference and also proposed three other topics, including 1) Green IT ¨C towards a reduced carbon footprint and sustainable development, 2) How to achieve 80% reduction of computers climate impact and 3) Text about TCO-label. This article is in English.
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