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Global responsibilities
Community involvement used to be largely a home-based activity, but as international knowledge of the voluntary sector and community needs grows, that is slowly changing.
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Held to account for green
growth
Steadily more companies are reporting the impact of their activities on the environment, but progress is slow while the standards expected are rising
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Shell: Global business,
home community.
The oil giants have long had some of the largest community programmes. With the privatised colossi like BT and British Gas joining the scene, achieving a distinctive approach in a more crowded arena becomes harder, yet Shell in the UK continues to run one of the most interesting programmes.
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Deprivation in the
Countryside
Deprivation and disadvantage is widespread in rural areas, not just restricted to urban areas.
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Buying into the
Environment
Environmental considerations now play an important part in purchasing and supply decisions, as business success increasingly depends on environmental performance
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Local economic
development
As the economy moves out of recession, the advice needs of new and expanding small businesses become more urgent, while the scope for local economic strategies grows more promising.
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Eurotunnel: Crossing the
community channel
Eurotunnel is in the news, having completed the Channel Tunnel, but what of its community programme?
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Urban areas
Britain is still divided between north and south on a wide range of social and economic factors, according to an analysis of the 1991 census data published on August 11 by the School for Advanced Urban Studies at Bristol University.
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Twenty Green Reporting
Tips
Many companies are responding to the green agenda by published corporate environmental performance reports, but some are so poorly prepared they become counter-productive; here is how to get it right.
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Regeneration
At a seminar in London on July 30, a group of community development specialists heard Joan Shapiro from the South Shore Bank of Chicago explain how her bank is making money through reviving distressed communities.
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Urban regeneration
A skills development programme for managers and other key players in urban regeneration partnerships, Winning Partnerships, was announced by the then Environment Secretary, Michael Howard MP, at the Cities '93 Conference in Birmingham on May 24.
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