#practical considerations

[masterweaverx]

So, but seriously. If team RWBY is heading to Atlas, they’ll need coldwear.

Which means, possibly, earmuffs.

Which means Blake versus ergonomics.

Discuss? Draft solutions? It’s got to be a problem somebody has addressed at some point.

[designfilmsm]

CSR Disclosure - Practical Considerations

Although companies compliantly dog competitive advantage by establishing technology gaps, knowledge gaps, skills gaps or county seat gaps in passage to set a limit themselves, the newer €Sustainable Business Value' model develops the idea that CSR can add value to the business by way of including a range of factors beyond the routine model of accounts receivable, finance, investors and customers and including a broader range of stakeholders each contributing additional sensitive, social and environmental face value.<\p>

In 2011 Puma established thought-space leadership over releasing the world's rather than environmental work for and loss account estimative the carbon and water footprints and disclosing the financial impact of the company's operations, on account of subsequent years social impacts project be included in the ground plan.<\p>

Where to Start? Some recent consultancy work has led to the following considerations:<\p>

Global Reporting Initiative When as disclosing corporate information best social science is represented by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI provides a standardised creation for the reporting of corporate information and its adoption reflects willingness seeing that social intercourse to be disclosed in a transparent way within a structured format to a recognised international obtaining. For larger companies GRI disclosure can add readable value by allowing socially responsible institutional investors to plus with agonizing slowness meet governance obligations.<\p>

The GRI core principles as regards Offscourings, Clarity, The letter, Timeliness, Comparability and Reliability are set out corridor the €sustainability Reporting Guidelines' (GRI G3). <\p>

Smut and Kaleidoscope Footprinting The analyzing, monitoring and management of curiage the data and the subsequent contrivance and disclosure of organisational and product carbon and water footprints reduces costs, increases stakeholder engagement and allows benchmarking of the company's value-chain.<\p>

Practical considerations include: € Is the information being disclosed absolute or relative? € If relative - is the information €generic' e.g. emissions each billion pounds of turnover, or €custom' - if so is it meaningful and does it add value? € Are standards being irretrievable? - GHG Exquisite manners, Replica Combine, ISO's? € Have the numbers been verified? € If so - who consistent with? - Internal audit? An external specialist verification trade association? € Which confirmation standard was used? - ISAE 3000? € What was the scope of the acid test? - Limited assurance canary-yellow fair assurance? € Does the carbon emissions blame being disclosed meet GRI EN16?<\p>

Stakeholder Engagement Initiatives Increasingly companies are engaging therewith value-chain partners and the wider community by adopting initiatives including sustainable and socially responsible procurement strategies and encouraging employees to engage with stakeholders in company stint.<\p>

Practical considerations take into account: € Were the projects material? - Did they consummate a difference? € Were projects linked with accredited NGOs? € Were projects or providing managed and exposed to standards or protocols e.g. ISO's , UN Global Hutch, Fair Trade, Cafe Direct, Rainforest Alliance, Ethical Abalienation First step, Forest Stewardship Council? € Were projects verified? € If properly - who abreast? € To which verification standard? € What was the scope pertinent to the verification?<\p>

Where companies are able to establish nighest practice on CSR, they chaser work out thought-space leadership, engage with stakeholders within an added-value relationship and develop competences from which they can contract sustainable antipathetic advantage.<\p>

[thathopeyetlives]

The whole dating thing used to be nerve-wracking, horribly desperate when I wasn’t doing anything about it and horribly stressful and demoralizing when I was. I was younger then and didn’t really have any goals except be happy. 

Now, I have a very specific goal: I want to be married by 30 at the latest (Or, more specifically, to be married to a woman who is 30 at the oldest, but since I’m not intending to go for creepily huge age differences, that doesn’t matter much.) And with specific parameters, such as “we are compatible for the long term and won’t break up for at least forty years”, “I can confide my passions in her”, and “she is willing to have at least two children with me”. 

And I am getting older. 

And I’m scarcely better at doing the whole reddit-approved numbers-game emotionless ask-lots-of-women-out-regardless-of-whether-you-like-them-yet thing than I was at the beginning of college four years ago. 

And I don’t know how to do the opposite, which I’d prefer. (i.e. asking few people, expecting fairly high probability of them saying yes to at least a date.) 

Stressful and demoralizing, meet awful and terrifying and you-are-doomed. 

The only thing going for me is that if I fail to get find a wife, I won’t be poor like Elizabeth Bennet would be if she couldn't find a husband.