Every year on World Environment Day, we are reminded of the need to take individual actions for our environment. This year, besides taking small individual actions, let us also start thinking about how we can work towards systemic changes with more impact. While it is important for each of us…
Continue ReadingThe Sustainability Toolkit
By Bhavani Prakash How do Singapore based companies engage their employees around sustainability and CSR? This was the question that prompted me to interview eleven organisations over a four month period to share bright spots that other companies could emulate. The result: an online 42 page resource entitled, ‘The Sustainability…
Continue ReadingNTUC FairPrice takes the lead to measure and reduce food waste
NTUC FairPrice is taking the first steps to measure and reduce food waste in its supermarkets. So far, FairPrice is the only supermarket retailer that has publicly commit to food waste reduction efforts, and this leadership is something that the other supermarket retailers need to follow. After two years of…
Continue ReadingReducing Marine Trash in Singapore
We arranged a meeting yesterday with staff from the Department of Public Cleanliness and the Policy and Planning Division in the National Environment Agency (NEA) to discuss about marine trash, together with Siva from International Coastal Cleanup Singapore and Ria from Wildsingapore. The objectives of the meeting were to: Understand…
Continue ReadingTips on nudging the government
We were asked how to lobby the government on environmental policies, our reply was first don’t use the word ‘lobby’, would prefer to call it nudge. Second, be positive and constructive, think win-win. Third, there’s no guarantee that you can influence the government but you can try these tips on…
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