Chief executives have increasingly incorporated environmental, societal, and governance issues into core strategies, McKinsey research shows.
These CEOs are responding to increasing pressure from employees and consumers, but some also see opportunities to gain a competitive advantage and address global problems.
Click here to read the McKinsey Quarterly article on CEOs and social issues
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AUCTION & Special Presentation: Our Way Of Life: The Wild UP
Save The Wild UP is hosting an Auction and Special Presentation by Fred Rydholm and slide show from Jack Deo. We will have spectacular items and experiences availble for you to bid on!
Tickets are available at the Save The Wild UP Office.
Tickets include one free drink, hors d’oeuvres, and admission to Fred Rydholm and Jack Deo’s presentation, “Our Way of Life: The Wild UP”
Keep a look out for additional information in the coming weeks.
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Items we thought were interesting include:
Books:
Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations. By
Videos:
Planet Earth: Complete Collection. Narrated By David Attenborough
Useful Items for the Wild UP:
HandCrank AM/FM/NOAA Weather radio with 12 LED Lights
Wireless Cell Phone Signal Booster
Canada creates largest Freshwater Marine Protected Area in the World on Lake Superior
To read more about the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area please check out the following links:
We applaud Canada’s recent recognition of the value of Lake Superior and their efforts protect and conserve it! It’s a wonderful start.
The famous leading Old Testament scholar and prolific author, Walter Brueggemann, recently visited the Upper Peninsula to discuss the controversial sulfide mine proposal and the Bible’s environmental messages. His presentation explored the “connection of the Bible and the environmental crisis.”
For the whole story and a link to a video on the presentation click here.
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A Grand Canyon hiking slide presentation by award-winning author and noted hiker Eric Hansen with a sidebar update on Save the Wild UP and sulfide mining.
Moderate temperatures, spectacular low-angle sunlight and lack of crowds make winter the perfect season to visit the Grand Canyon. Author Eric Hansen, a veteran of 24 Grand Canyon treks, will outline the attractions that make this a must-do outing for any hiker’s life list. He will also highlight savvy strategies and logistics that make it a reasonable outing for average hikers – not just the superfit.
Tactics such as using mules to carry loads or reserving Phantom Ranch housing allow hikers to visit the canyon bottom without carrying heavy loads. While the slide show presentation will center on inner canyon hiking and backpacking, there will also be information on day hikes from the rim and trout fishing within the canyon. A handout will steer prospective hikers to resources helpful in planning your own Grand Canyon visit.
Eric Hansen is the author of Hiking Wisconsin and Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – A Guide to the Greatest Hiking Adventures in the U.P. His writing credits also include extensive work for Backpacker Magazine and other journals. Eric’s op-ed essay on the U.P.’s Coaster Brook Trout and the threat of sulfide mining won the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s first prize for 2005 newspaper conservation writing. That essay is available as a pdf at www.eric-hansen.com
U.P. Sulfide Mine Proposals Threaten Our Headwaters and the Great Lakes
Eric will also offer an update on the robust citizen’s campaign to counter ill-advised proposals for sulfide mining to our north. Richard Milliken, Michigan’s longest-serving governor, has joined that campaign and has taken a strong stand against the mine proposals. For more information see SaveTheWildUP.org
Eric’s books will be available for purchase. They make excellent holiday gifts.
MARQUETTE — Four Upper Peninsula chapters of the Michigan Audubon Society have signed a joint resolution opposing all sulfide-based mining in the Upper Peninsula.
Announcement of the groups’ opposition came as a state Department of Environmental Quality public comment period on the proposed approval of a Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company nickel and copper mine closed Wednesday.
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Below is the introduction of the 700+ page review of Kennecott’s Mining Permit Application (MPA) by the National Wildlife Federation. The report addresses serious legal and technical deficiencies with the MPA. You may download the entire 702 page document as a PDF (It is a large file – 24.8 MB)
Comments in Opposition to Issuance of the Nonferrous Metallic Mining Permit Required by Part 632, NREPA Applied for by Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company, February 2006
Submitted to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality on October 17, 2007 by National Wildlife Federation, Michelle Halley, Esq.
These comments address the Mining Permit Application (MPA) for a nonferrous metallic mine commonly called the ‘Eagle Project’ originally applied for by Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company (KEMC) in February of 2006, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) subsequent preliminary approval issued on July 30, 2007 and the Draft Permit MP 01 2007.
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is a national conservation and education organization with over 4 million members. The Great Lakes and Lake Superior have been focal points of our work for over 25 years since they are globally important natural resources for wildlife and humans. This project poses dire threats to the Lake Superior watershed.
Our review of this MPA reveals some startling likelihoods should the mine be allowed to proceed as proposed:
These likely and scientifically supported scenarios – none of them discussed or disproved by the MPA — demonstrate the low quality of KEMC’s MPA, that the MPA does not meet standards in Part 632 and other Michigan and federal laws, and that the MPA should be summarily denied.
The Rise of Big Water
By Charles C. Mann
Vanity Fair May, 2007
As major cities battle drought and pollution, they are turning to a handful of Western companies to manage the problem. But as “Big Water” takes hold of the ultimate market-China-will those who can’t pay have the spigot turned off?
October 11, 2007
BY TINA LAM FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Environmental groups on Wednesday blasted comments by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that northern states with plenty of water should share it with parched states. “It shows we need the strongest possible protection for the
Great Lakes, especially when water levels are declining,” said Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Gov. Jennifer Granholm, adding that legislators need to approve a water compact Granholm and other governors signed in 2005, when they saw growing threats to the lakes. “His comments prove those threats should not be taken lightly,” Boyd said.
Richardson, also a Democratic presidential candidate, has been campaigning heavily in
“I want a national water policy,”
Lake Superior is in a drought, too, hitting an all-time low last month, and all the upper