"If you want to build a business to last, you will take Corporate Social Responsibility seriously. Talented employees demand it, informed customers expect it, long-term investors will require it. Embedded in the business, CSR can be a source of creativity and innovation, leading to new products and services, access to new or under-serviced markets, or even new business models.

Smart businesses know they will not have all the CSR answers themselves. They will learn from each other and from stakeholders in business. MOSS is here to help that process. I encourage you to join and become an active participant as it works to develop an appropriate Australian vision of Responsible Business and business support for sustainability"

Prof David Grayson OBE,CBE
Director Doherty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University (UK)

2012 is International Year of Cooperatives highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, particularly their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration. With the theme of Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World the Year seeks to encourage the growth and establishment of cooperatives all over the world. If you are seeking to better understand your stakeholders and how you can develop better co-operation within your communities, check out our MapYou Stakeholder Engagement MasterClasses. Or ask us about the new nationally accredited MapYou Training programs.

2012 is also the year of 2012 - International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made sustainable energy one of his five priorities and has directed the United Nations to focus on universal access to energy, improved efficiency and enhanced deployment of renewable sources in order to combat endemic poverty. How will you get involved?

Need support developing your CSR or Sustainability Strategy?  Want to be transformational as opposed to transactional? Read how we can assist...

New UNEP Report Outlines the Pathways to 2020 to deliver the additional 6 to 11 Gigatonne cuts needed to get world back into safe territory limiting temperatures to a 2 degree increase.

Do you know what you are worth?  Check out the  2011 Sustainability Roles and Salary Survey results.

Want to learn how to innovate and profit from the emerging green economy? Discover how you can mitigate your carbon risks with net zero costs, or explore how to transition and transform your organisation to a world class leader in sustainability - MOSS now offer consulting services lead by International sustainability expert Dr Martin Blake and MOSS CEO Anne-Maree Huxley.    

Focus Press offer Carbon Neutral Printing. Focus Press, Australia's leading environmental printer offers Carbon Neutral Printing and they absorb the price of the offsets!  This is value adding at it's best. Click here to learn how you can take advantage of this special offer. 

Transitioning an organisation from a short term take, make and waste thinking to one of long term sustainability is a survival imperative for organisations operating in a world of increasingly scarce resources. MOSS has been involved in developing The Sustainability Challenge a revolutionary new engaging and interactive training tool to aid essential understanding and capability around complex issues such as emissions reduction, sustainable supply chain and social responsibility whilst auditing your culture's attitudes towards sustainability. Click here to see a demonstration or learn more. If you need assistance to reduce your carbon emissions and become more efficient, check out the East River Software Energy and Carbon Emissions Management Platform (ECMP). It enables organisations to focus on reducing energy and water consumption as well as automating carbon emissions management and reporting for all energy sources including electricity, water, gas, fuels, solar, wind, waste and renewables.  Find out how.

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