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2014年5月16日 星期五

Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair

FLA head Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights — globalized industries where no single national body can keep workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global supply chains honest? Van Heerden makes the business case for fair labor.

Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability

IKEA Three key numbers 1. 3 Billion people coming to middle class by 2013 2. 6 celsius degree higher temperature 3. 12 cities to 500 What IKEA try to go all in and has implemented 1. LED: next big thing, provide light with little heat and last more than 20 years 2. Better cotton. 3. Wood: set standard of all forestry. 4. Within three years, double certified material. 5. Solar penal. 6. Eliminate child labors,and audit all the time to ensure better working condition Conclusion - If you are company leader and not weaving sustainability, he urges you to do it. - Nike, Lego, Timberland have done it. Maybe what they did are not perfect, but in the right direction. - Nice-to-Do to Must-to-do

2014年5月13日 星期二