According to a recent press release by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the world’s most successful companies are placing a heavy emphasis on green building and corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, the large majority of these businesses are using LEED, the world’s top green building initiative, to realize their goals. The press release comes on […]
CCI approves Pact of Reliance and RuYi
Reliance Industries Limited had proposed to enter into a joint venture with the Chinese company, RuYi. The Indian body that regulates fair trade, Competition Commission of India (CCI) has given its nod for the deal. CCI said that there is no anti-competitive issue raised through the deal. The Chinese company will now hold 49% share […]
ARE WEST’S UNHRC EFFORTS TO SAVE HUMANITY (EELAM) FROM THE RAJAPAKSE GENOCIDE CRIMES BEING UNDERMI
After keeping the world in suspense Delhi voted for the West’s historic March 2012 UNHRC resolution only with a condition that SL consents to any action for the crimes. In normal circumstances action on an UNHRC resolution follows automatically to hold accountability proceedings against those responsible (will this include the South Block ‘in the […]
Climate Change: geoengineering, an option not a solution for global warming
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system; it is not the nearest to the sun but it is so hot that it can melt hard metals if placed on its surface. Greenhouse effect from the action of Green House Gases (GHGs) is the chief factor for this hotness. Venus is next to planet […]
Gauging ‘social returns alongside financial returns’; solicits RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani
Encouraging private sector players to adopt the modernized version of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India’s largest private sector conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), emphasized the need to gauge a business’s social returns alongside its financial returns for a true measure of success. Speaking at the fifth annual Col Ajay Mushran’s memorial […]
College Football Awards: 2009 Eddie Robinson Award: TCU Coach Gary Patterson
2009 Eddie Robinson Award-TCU Coach Gary Patterson Jan. 4, 2010 Old Head Sportscapper Island.com 9th-year coach has led unbeaten Horned Frogs to BCS bowl TCU’S PATTERSON WINS 2009 EDDIE ROBINSON AWARD NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (FWAA) – TCU coach Gary Patterson has been named the winner of the 2009 FWAA/Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year […]