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Sustainability Links from around the web:

Sense & Sustainability: Banking on greener tea

This article in Canada’s National Post discusses the merits of the Lipton Estate, owned by Unilever, in Kericho, Kenya whose management is commendable with responsible labour conditions and sustainable agriculture practices.

Sustainability Is Back In Fashion

The New York Times reports how what has always been viewed as ‘luxury’ goods is now changing. The want is for lasting value and knowledge that materials have been sourced in an environmentally responsible way.

Mars commits to sustainable cocoa production

The Food Business review writes here that Mars have announced they will certify it’s cocoa supply as being produced sustainably by 2020.

Sustainability: Zero-carbon homes

This article examines the government’s pledge to make all new homes zero-carbon by 2016 and looks at what they have defined to be zero-carbon.

Here are some interesting articles from across the web:

Seeds of Sustainability – Imagine 2050

A farm inherited by Sylvia Baretto in Brazil has developed from a chemically fertilized coffee plantation into a progressive organic farm that looks after its workers. They want to spread the word and their knowledge via their website (http://www.fafbrazil.com/fafbr/index.asp)

Sustainable Travel Plan for City – BBC News Wales

Cardiff is being given upwards of £28 million to become Wales’ first sustainable travel town. This BBC article outlines what changes and improvements will be made. There are many comments underneath about this from locals giving their opinion on this massive investment – Cardiff Transport Strategy

Sustainable Sanity – controldesign.com

This article highlights the interesting point of the need to win back labour from other countries to help in making manufacturing of products more sustainable.

Corporate Social Responsibility is vital for businesses to survive – independent.co.uk

Corporate Social Responsibility, also known as CSR, is a must in business in the present financial climate where long-term solutions should be favoured over the short-term and ultimately this will benefit businesses as much as it will benefit society.

Designers Accord NYC Town Hall: 2 Reflections-core 77

This blog gives us an insight into a meeting of a group of designers based in New York speaking about the ways they can encourage businesses to be more sustainable in the designs they produce. In turn for this to be possible they discuss the merits of being able to share this in a community of sustainably aware designers.

Ok I’m calling our links blog sustainability links this time, so by the modern wonder that is Google Alerts I bring to you London Callings pick of the week top sustainability links.

A Study on the most sustainable countries

An article on how art and sustainability can and should work together

Towards sustainability, lifestyle, what is the most difficult thing to change?

An inspiring article on sustainable Dave’s mission to reduce the amount of waste he produces in a year.

Sustainable Dave’s blog can be found here

Sustainable Travel International is a global non profit travel company that promotes environmentally responsible travel, their site can be found here and an interesting article explaining their position here

We thought we would share some of the most useful and interesting links and articles we come across week by week. You can also link to these by using the tags on our delicious tag cloud in the side bar.

“Sustainability is the ability to support this generation as well as future generations.”

Here is an interesting essay arguing that ecological agriculture is productive enough to feed the world’s population, especially in third world countries – Is ecological agriculture productive?

A widget you can download to give you tips on how to make yourself greener daily – Green Prophet’s GreenyourlselfDaily

An article from the Cyprus Mail about how we can create sustainable cities of the future. One at the page search for ‘Sustainability’ using the ‘Search by Keywords’ option. The article is called ‘Cities of the Future’ Sunday January 11th 2009.

A blog on Valcent about top reasons to eat locally grown food

An article on YAHOO! GREEN – Amazon deforestation drops sharply

A few great tips on how to be ‘green’ in the workplace.

Biofuels and climate change discuss the sustainabilityof biofuels here

Fairtrade.org asks can fair trade stop global warming?

Treehugger asks will Obama take the lead on the development of sustainability challenges?