Before the GRI Conference began on Wednesday, the City of Amsterdam invited us to spend the morning on a canal tour of the city. The Netherlands is quite vested in reversing the role that climate is having on our planet–most of the country lies below sea level.
Who said reporting and disclosure conferences must be dull? Last night the GRI hosted an awards ceremony for companies who proved that they have successfully engaged their shareholders in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting.
Just as Julia Child’s first impressions of France reminded her of China, The Netherlands so far remind me of Vietnam. Watch a posse of bikes cross an intersection to see why!
Leon Kaye has entered a competition which, if successful, could have him work in Amsterdam for a few days at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference in Amsterdam May 26-28. The URL is http://www.justmeans.com/contestidea?ideaid=NDQ2
I was amused when someone passed on this story of what some park rangers in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands are using to foil bikers who are off-roading illegally. They are riding what you may be seeing a lot more of in the next decade: the electric motorcycle. Electric motorcycles are a [...]
Pollution from agriculture and animal husbandry are the elephants in the room that many in and out of the green movement don’t want to talk about. But if you take a look at some of the most polluted towns in the country, they are in California’s Central Valley? Ever drive up I-5? Gross! Which is [...]