sustainability

By Dominic Mason, Managing Director SEA, Sedgwick Richardson –  Where are you from? It is one of the simplest questions people ask and the…

By Dominic Mason, Managing Director SEA, Sedgwick Richardson –  The rate of urbanisation in Vietnam is well-documented with 40% of its total population now…

By Dominic Mason, Managing Director SEA, Sedgwick Richardson –  The idea of sustainability branding as a concept may seem contentious. For some, it carries…

Bà Christina Ameln, Nhà chiến lược Bền vững và Cố vấn của Purple IVY, AVPN và Sustainable Vietnam, First Published in the Vietnam Investment Review‘s…

Oliver Woodruff, ARUP writes – We need to alter how we power the World, move through it, produce materials, and build it.  What is more, we must adopt ways of doing so without emitting greenhouse gases.  We must also build resilience to lessen the impacts of unavoidable climate change reflected in flooding, drought, wildfires and heatwaves. 

(English version) Felicitas Huong Friedrich, CSR & IC Manager Schneider Electric writes in July issue of Forbes Vietnam – A couple of years back I was in Jakarta, anxious to meet my new colleagues, whom I have never met before. They all seemed very nice and enthusiastic but over dinner, I was finding myself trying to keep up with the conversation. This was not a language barrier. A whole new world of strategic sustainability efforts opened to me while listening to my colleagues from Schneider Electric.

To read all the articles on EQUO on Sustainable Vietnam, click on:  More than just straws  Do we have to sacrifice to be sustainable? …

Being inundated with information, it can be hard to figure out where to start. Worse?Sustainability is usually seen as an action that requires additional effort, work, time – things most of us can’t spare in our busy lives. Getting back to the basics and simplifying things can help reset this.

I’ve always felt dismayed with the way the majority of eco brands seem to rely on fear-based tactics. This dogmatic all-or-nothing approach alienates consumers who may want to take the first step towards becoming more eco-conscious, but who aren’t quite ready to totally overhaul their lifestyle.

…if years of paper straws, tofu steaks and reusable diapers have taught us anything, sometimes leading with a message of sacrifice just isn’t that enticing.