Items Tagged With environmental management

Well done to all the successful communities recognised at the Beautiful Scotland Awards that keep our villages, town and cities beautiful. Led by committed and inspiring voluntary effort, they have transformed eyesores and maintained the very essence of Scotland. This year's top award has been won by Glenrothes.

Subsea 7

One of the world's leading engineering and construction companies, Subsea 7 was a regional winner of the VIBES awards in 2004. Employing in excess of 3,900 people worldwide, Subsea 7 provides underwater services including complete EPIC (engineering, procurement, installation and construction) services, inspection repair and maintenance covering life of field, survey and positioning, pipeline installation, full project management and engineering together with robotic intervention services and are active in the North Sea, Brazil, West Africa, Gulf of Mexico and Asia Pacific.

New Online Travel Calculator To Encourage Kids To Walk To School To support International Walk to School Month, a new interactive online Travel Buster tool has been launched today - a colourful cartoon calculator aimed at showing 7 - 11 year olds that walking, or c...

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Scotland to host global conference on species management The management of wildlife species for conservation, conflict resolution and sustainability, will be the subject of a major international conference to be held in Scotland this month (October). ...

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Demand Responsive Transport - A sustainable development no brainer
11:14 - 20.11.2008 Blog >> Policy
Yesterday we heard from Stewart Stephenson at a conference in Edinburgh that the government supported the concept of demand responsive solutions to our travel and transport needs. Of course the government should be supportive it is a sustainable development no brainer. A demand responsvie approach gets people from A2B in a more efficient, economically competitive, environmentally responisble and social more equitable way.

Unfortunatley there is no meat on the bones of that…
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Marbella or bust?
12:00 - 06.10.2008 Blog >> Communities
So should 80 school teachers be flying to Marbella for a professional development event? Found myself getting upset with all the fuss today, as why shouldn't a group that is hardly overpaid be allowed to travel to work hard for a couple of days and maybe enjoy an hour by the pool? Hearing the families and journalists today you'd think it…
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The most unsustainable of times
11:58 - 30.09.2008 Blog >> People
It seems like everyday we wake up to the effects of our unsustainable behaviours.

The financial crisis/credit crunch, whatever you choose to call things is the legacy of years of irresponsible economic activity. It suggests that currently the reality of so called sustainable economic growth is a bit of an oxymoron.

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ISE10 Washing Machine
14:04 - 24.09.2008 Blog >> People
Not the most exciting decision I've had to take recently, but I had to replace an old Hotpoint machine after it had got REALLY NOISY. Bearings were away, and it wasn't worth fixing after over 10 years good service, including two young boys through washable nappies! I'd been able to fix a couple of things myself previously, including the door release and the carbon brushes on the motor, but this I felt this was beyond…
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Change is in the bag
09:01 - 23.07.2008 Blog >> Business
Those clever people at Love your world in Glasgow have developed a range of products to advance the messages of environmental responsibility. It's much more than just bags..its about changing attitude and behaviour.
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