Archive | July, 2008

Kerstin Dietrich

Ms. Dietrich is a global specialist on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). During her recent, fourth, visit to Pakistan she graciously shared with TBL, her thoughts about the development and potential of the CDM in developing countries like Pakistan. Khadeeja Balkhi: If you were to capture the essence of the CDM as you see it, […]

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Global Briefs Jul-Aug 2008

Remake a Living: The Jobs Are Blowin’ in The Wind Turbines are sprouting like wildflowers after rain in Texas, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Not to mention China. As the hype about “green” jobs has grown, the wind-energy industry has done a pretty good job of reporting accurately on their job […]

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Behavioural Safety At Workplace

A safety culture is directly dependent on the attitude of employees towards safety – proposes Attock Refinery Limited (ARL). Below it presents an initiative to encourage, promote and instill safe behaviour among its employees, in this case, through the introduction of behavior-based safety concepts and customized process control solutions. The most commonly used definition of […]

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Happiness-Spirituality as The Fourth Bottom Line

‘Serving society’ seems to be one of the newfound mantras of the corporate sector. Being a part of people at the grassroots levels, uplifting the destitute, shouldering the elderly, educating the illiterate or improving conditions in the rural areas; these form a slew of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ventures and are becoming a necessary part […]

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