Canada the good?
For the third year in a row, Maclean’s has partnered with Jantzi-Sustainalytics, a global leader in sustainability analysis, to present the Top 50 Socially Responsible Corporations. The companies’ efforts vary—Merck has donated 1.3 million doses of its rotavirus vaccine to babies in Nicaragua, for instance, and Sony Corp. has diverted 205,000 kg of old electronics from landfills since 2008. But they all provide lessons (starting on page 46) on how to be better corporate citizens—lessons that, based on how Canadian companies generally compare to others on this measure, are worth taking note of.
Canadian oil sands companies were caught blinking in the international spotlight when world leaders met at the 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen. In the run-up to the meetings, foreign activists and newspaper columnists dubbed the industry “dirty” and hell-bent on transforming a large swath of northern Alberta’s boreal forest into a barren moonscape. Ottawa, meanwhile, was accused of being one of the biggest stumbling blocks to global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Getting branded as the world’s environmental villain was an unfamiliar and uncomfortable experience for Canadians, many of whom were eager to dismiss foreign criticisms as the rantings of a handful of fringe groups. But anti-oil-sands sentiment has only grown louder in Europe over the past few years and, increasingly, it’s being echoed in some quarters of the United States, the biggest importer of our oil sands crude. Granted, resource extraction has never been a warm and fuzzy business, but many Canadians have been left wondering whether the industry could do a better job insulating itself from such criticism.
And oil sands companies aren’t the only Canadian firms with a potential reputation problem. With a few exceptions, Canadian companies have been relatively slow to embrace the sorts of activities and initiatives generally associated with being good corporate citizens. A ranking of G7 countries performed for Maclean’s by Jantzi-Sustainalytics shows Canada near the bottom of the list when it comes to large publicly traded companies’ performances on corporate social responsibility (CSR) measures that fall under the umbrellas of environmental, social and governance criteria. Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom all scored well ahead of Canada. The one bright spot was that Canada scored ahead of the U.S., where corporate culture has historically been defined by short-term profit-maximization above all else.
Boreal Forest Food Web - News
ForestEthics was a key part of the process by which the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) last year was ostensibly forced to agree to sanitize large chunks of boreal forest in return for an end to "Do not buy" campaigns.
In the run-up to the meetings, foreign activists and newspaper columnists dubbed the industry “dirty” and hell-bent on transforming a large swath of northern Alberta's boreal forest into a barren moonscape. Ottawa, meanwhile, was accused of being one
esknokencar: forest food web examples
Yes amitjoey. thanks a lot for that help. I wish more people participated in it. infact if more members can continue to do it today it will be very helpful. yesterday there were at least 3 mails from reporters expressing interest in us. This was because a few people wrote to them about IV and requested them to do a followup article abut us. I had found about 72 articles yesterday morning and we had more than 50 potential reporters to contact.It is not easy to get press coverage and this is one opportunity where we can captitalize on the venture captitalist story (no pun intentended). But I also believe that IV members are here to address some issues confronting them re the GC processing. I would focus on things that need doing - the core agenda - not on fraud committed by some handful of persons, and who has got his/her spouse a job where. These are not issues that concern us - there are enough crabs in the anti-basket to bring legal immigrants down - its a stunning revelation that USCIS can at random hike fees, lengthen process, and leave legal immigrants in a limbo for years on end. Indeed the system is so incoherent that to this day they are unable to give us a reply on waiting times and our place in the line. I prsonally have yet to see such an ill-defined and poorly organized immigration system anytwhere in the world. Every nation - be it Canada, Australia, NZ, or UK have a clear outline and timeline as to fees, waiting periods, rights and responsbilities of people in the line to immigrate - be it for PR or citizenship. And this is the very least we too can expect of the US immigration system. A big push is needed for immigration reform for legal immigrants. And we are not likely to get anywhere if our focus will be on issues that are raised in anti-immigration forums. This is not to say these issues do not exist - the point I am trying to make is that they are NOT OUR issues. We only need to focus on the positive. The contributions of the genuine, law-abiding majority of legal H1B who come from many nations across the world and get stuck for years on an artificially created queue. The fact that we have come here on an H1 B visa which by law allowed us to file for a GC. The issue @ hand is waiting time, and associated concerns, an attempt to end retrogression, remove per country limits or at least align them with H!B intake numbers, and recapture of visa numbers.
Boreal Forest Food Web - Bookshelf
Ecosystem dynamics of the boreal forest, the Kluane project
Conversely. at the top of the food web, top-down interactions are strong, ... Leihold l996l. l 7.l Experimental Perturbations of the Boreal Forest We tested ...Food Chains and Webs
FOREST FOOD WEB The Eastern Mixed Forest is a great woodland region running down the eastern United States. Here, the boreal, coniferous forest of the north ...The food web of a tropical rain forest
IN THE preceding twelve chapters the concept of the food web has been used as ... feeding habits are components of temperate and boreal forest communities. ...Towards sustainable management of the boreal forest
Nutrient-rich systems can support a greater abundance offish food; however, ... 1 ), with the closed-forest boreal zones being under the most pressure from ...Britain's changing environment
Solar energy foxes owls dead matter rabbits Figure 5.4 A food web in a ... Temperate grassland 0.6 1.6 Temperate forest 1.2 32.5 Boreal forest 0.8 20 Tundra ...Daily Report Directory
Taiga - Boreal Forests
The picture shows a food web in a temperate coniferous forest. ... Trees found in boreal forests include such evergreen conifers as balsam firs, black spruces, jack pines and ...
Borealforest.org
Provides information on Ontario's northwest forest, boreal forests of the world, and the forest industry.
Forest Food Web Activity
a section of the boreal forest; the largest ecosystem in the world (see map). The boreal forest was ... Compare a forest food web and ecosystem to that of another ...
The Wilderness Classroom " The Canadian Shield's Boreal Forest
Boreal forests separate the Arctic tundra from the southern deciduous forests. ... green plants are at the bottom of the food web, how do they get their own food? ...
Educational Resources - Who's Coming to Dinner? - The Food Chain
... Species of the Northwestern Ontario Boreal Forest" on our site as a ... is called a "food web". Students can create an example of a food web by adding species ...