Es interesante observar la evolución de la sustentabilidad desde un punto de vista empresarial y holístico. A inicio de año diversas empresas transnacionales que vienen desde hace años trabajando en temas de sustentabilidad (Unilever, Nestle, DuPont, BASF, etc.) comparten sus prioridades y sus acciones para hacer su parte, pero ¿Cómo se aplica esto a los empleados, desarrollar el talento, mejorar la retención y sobre todo comprometer plenamente a toda la organización?

Una idea que ha sido desarrollada recientemente menciona que el éxito de la sustentabilidad en una organización se camina en 4 etapas que son:

En la etapa inicial o básica, un pequeño número de empleados voluntarios participan en actividades de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial con los objetivos de eficiencia y ahorro de costos.

En la etapa intermedia, un departamento de RSE gestiona actividades de sustentabilidad que promueven la eficiencia operativa interna, es en este momento que la sustentabilidad comienza a integrarse en las metas de la empresa.

La tercera etapa o de mejorar la cultura organizacional busca promover la salud, el bienestar y una actitud de compromiso y ser parte del cambio en los empleados, con una mayor integración de la sustentabilidad en el producto y en los procesos de la empresa.

Y en la última etapa, que es la etapa estratégica, la empresa mira hacia el exterior integrando las acciones de la organización con la comunidad, utilizando la sustentabilidad como la base de su modelo de negocio.

 

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Los altos niveles de contaminación atmosférica a lo largo del tiempo pueden obstaculizar el sueño de una buena noche, según una nueva investigación presentada en la Conferencia Internacional ATS 2017. "Estudios anteriores han demostrado que la contaminación del aire afecta la salud del corazón y afecta la respiración y la función pulmonar...

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today announced it has selected the University of Michigan to continue hosting NOAA’s cooperative institute in the Great Lakes region. 

NOAA made the selection after an open, competitive evaluation to continue funding the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR), formerly called the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research. 

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Gardeners know the frustration of a false spring. Coaxed outside by warm weather, some people plant their gardens in the spring only to see a sudden late frost strike at the plants with a killer freezer burn. Grumbling green thumbs, along with farmers and water supply managers, would benefit from more accurate predictions of the first and last frosts of the season.

Such timing is in flux, however. The frost-free season in North America is approximately 10 days longer now than it was a century ago. In a new study, published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Utah and the U.S. Geological Survey parse the factors contributing to the timing of frost in the United States. Atmospheric circulation patterns, they found, were the dominant influence on frost timing, although the trend of globally warming temperatures played a part as well.

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During the research, the scientists were to answer the following questions which are currently considered to be important in the realm of radiobiology:

What are the peculiarities of low-dose gamma radiation`s effect on living creatures?

What are the differences between gamma and alpha, beta radiation in terms of their effect on living creatures?

Photobacterium phosphoreum, which is quite suitable for a comprehensive analysis of a radiation effect, was used as a test organism. In the course of the experiment, the luminous bacteria were put into an experimental capsule where they were undergoing the effect of different radiation capacity and duration under the temperatures of +5 °C, +10 °C, +20 °C.

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NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer are preparing for an unscheduled spacewalk outside the International Space Station Tuesday, May 23. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

Whitson, Expedition 51 commander, and Fischer, flight engineer, will replace a critical computer relay box that failed May 20. The relay box, known as a multiplexer-demultiplexer (MDM), is one of two units that regulate the operation of radiators, solar arrays and cooling loops. They also route commands to other vital station systems.

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