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Guardian Media Group launches sustainability vision

12 Mar 2010:
Owner of Guardian and Observer to tackle 10 issues ranging from environmental management and ethical procurement to employee and community engagement
Guardian's sustainability reporting website shortlisted for prestigious award

11 Mar 2010:
The Guardian's online sustainability reporting website has been shortlisted for the inaugural Ethical Corporation Awards
Full details of GMG's 2015 vision and strategy

9 Mar 2010:
We commit to play our part as a leading media organisation in creating a fair society that lives within the means of our planet
Guardian exhibition shows how Tsunami victims are facing a new threat

24 Feb 2010:
The Guardian has just opened an exhibition highlighting how Tsunami-affected communities in India are struggling to fend off the onset of tourism development which is threatening their traditional way of life
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Observer's relaunch enlightened by the spirit of 1791

John Mulholland: When the world's oldest Sunday paper relaunches this week, it will aim to build on a heritage founded on the age of reason
The Guardian's 10:10 pledge to cut emissions

As part of our sustainability strategy, we have signed up to the 10:10 challenge to cut our carbon emissions by 10% in 2010
- The beauty of 10:10 is that it's both achievable and meaningful
- More on the 10:10 climate change campaign

Sustainability sections
Sustainability -The big picture

Corporate social responsibility has been at the centre of the Guardian and Observer since their inception.
Editorial

Our greatest impact comes from informing and influencing our global audience
Business

The current business model does not work for newspapers any more. So we will have to build a new one that does
Commercial

We will work with our readers to gain a deeper understanding of what products and services they want
Operations

Our ambition is to be environmentally regenerative. We will investigate how we can become carbon positive
People

To be successful multimedia publishers we have to move away from the familiar routines of the past
Community

We will work in partnership with our local and global communities to address their social and environmental needs
Assurance

GNM has made the commitments, but is it delivering on them?

Alan Rusbridger: 'By having a paywall, you are cutting your journalism off from the world'

Video (9min 03sec): Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, who recently gave the annual Hugh Cudlipp lecture, talks to Matt Wells about the future of digital journalism
About the Scott Trust
Alan Rusbridger on the contradictions of advertising-funded journalism

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Drought turns southern China into arid plain

7 Apr 2010: The government has embarked on a massive rain-making operation, firing thousands of cloud-seeding rockets into the sky
Rio de Janeiro swamped by landslides and floods

7 Apr 2010: Video (1min 38sec)
Natural disaster caused by heaviest rains in decades kills dozens
'Green roof safaris' tempt the black redstart back to Sheffield

7 Apr 2010: 'Wild and natural' roofs have lured the bird, which once favoured the city's dilapidated industrial sites
Millions of sea turtles dying in fishing gear, report warns

7 Apr 2010: Tens of thousands of sea turtles were trapped and killed by commercial fishing fleets over the past 20 years, but real total could number millions
Arctic winter ice recovers slightly despite record year low, scientists say

7 Apr 2010: Figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre indicate six or seven- year low over past three decades
Britain blooming earlier thanks to rising temperatures, study says

7 Apr 2010:
Nature readings from 1753 until present day – including information from Springwatch viewers – show that change has been greatest in past 25 years
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Guardian reorganises editorial executives

26 Mar 2010: Deputy editors Katharine Viner and Ian Katz taking on extra responsibilities, with creative director Mark Porter leaving. By Jason Deans
GMG's Carolyn McCall confirmed as easyJet chief

24 Mar 2010: Executive to leave Guardian group after 24 years to lead airline. By Mark Sweney
Guardian group chief executive Carolyn McCall to join easyJet

23 Mar 2010: 'Tough operator' who oversaw sale of Trader Media Group for £675m
GMG to drop original programming and cut staff at Channel M

17 Mar 2010: Cutbacks at TV service follow sale of Manchester Evening News and its other regional papers to Trinity Mirror. By Stephen Brook
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