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Earth Charter U.S. announces winners of the 2010 Sustainable Business Awards

The Earth Charter US Sustainable Business Awards honor companies in the Tampa Bay area that exemplify the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit. Chosen from 32 nominees, this year's recipients demonstrated creativity in this year's difficult economic environment, maintaining their commitment to retaining employees, contributing to the community and safeguarding the health of the planet.

Tampa Bay Businesses Define Sustainability

Written by Jan Roberts

Ask a dozen executives what corporate sustainability means, and chances are they will deliver 12 different definitions. Some will talk about regulatory compliance and risk management. Some will describe cost reductions. Others will mention somewhat hazy measures, such as carbon neutrality, or more tangible metrics, such as energy efficiency improvement and revenue per sustainable product. A few will give skeptical shrugs. However, the executives of 18 Tampa Bay companies, being recognized as the 2010 Earth Charter US Sustainable Business Award Winners, light up as they discuss their demonstrated commitment to the triple bottom line of sustainability that includes people (employee and community wellbeing), planet (environmental health) and profit.

ECUS Zambia Partnership Update: Hands-on training teaches participants to build waterless toilets

The ECUS partnership program in Zambia, COPE (Community Action on Poverty and Environment), recently conducted the second session of its Waterless Toilet Trainings, providing hands-on training to 34 participants through the construction of a waterless toilet. This 5-day training project was conducted in southeast Zambia in Chilupula Village in Chief Bunda Bunda`s Chiefdom,in the Chongwe District, 90 kilometers from Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia.

Helping Haiti's Children - Join our efforts

More than three weeks after the devastating earthquake, the people of Haiti are still struggling. The United Nations food program is still not reaching as many Haitians as hoped, and their cash-for-work program to employ Haitians to clean up the rubble is extremely underfunded, only reaching 12,000 of the 200,000 people they aimed to serve.¹

Furthermore, it will be a long time before conditions return to anything resembling normalcy. This is especially true for children that have lost parents and family members in the disaster. This is why Earth Charter US is partnering with Friends of the Orphans to help provide assistance to Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos/Nos Petit Frères et Soeurs, a long-established organization that is serving the neediest in Haiti.