Business Sustainabilty

The Race to Rank: The Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders Unveiled

By Elaine_Cohen on September 21, 2010 2 Comments BeyondBusiness, CRD Analytics, CSRwire.com, Elaine Cohen, ESG performance, FESG, G1000, Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders, GRI G3 indicators, JustMeans, Martin Smith, Michael Muyot, MSCI World Index, Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index, Smartview, sustainability performance

The Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leader Ranking was made public for the first time on 15th September 2010. This is the most credible and authoritative sustainability performance ranking available and is an unparalleled tool for ESG-minded investors.

Greener Board Meetings – Get On Board!

By Dani Glaser on August 5, 2010 3 Comments baords, Board Effect, board meetings, Board Packets, Boardbook, BoardDocs, BoardVantage, Dani Glaser, Diligent Board Books, Directors Desk, greener board meetings, My Board Packet, online board governance, paper, Principal of Green Team Spirit, web-based board portal system

There are a number of ways in which you can make sure that your board meetings are green. The most common way is to invest in a web-based board portal system. However, meeting remotely is not always an option. Other options include: receiving electronic rather than printed documents and receiving links to news articles rather than printed versions.

Choose the Right Flavor: Ice-Cream, Sustainability & Business Innovation

By Dave Meyer on August 4, 2010 3 Comments 7-P, assurance systems, community based giving programs, continual improvement, EMS, end state, environment, environmental footprint, environmental management systems, green, ice cream, innovation, ISO 14001-based Environmental Management System, Japan, Joel Makower, Jonathan Scott, lean, locally sourced materials, Makower, organics, people, performance measurement system, process, product, Quality Management Systems, real-time measurement, resource consumption, Six Sigma, soft serve, stakeholder, sustainability, sustainability program development, system, The Sustainable Business, The Toyota Way, transparent public disclosure, triple bottom line

The keys to unlocking value through implementing sustainability initiatives require positioning through: identifying marketplace trends that reward innovation toward sustainability; optimizing the linkage between sustainability, environmental and business objectives; creating a systematic process and internal champions that can drive the system from the inside out; establishing a manageable performance measurement system that demonstrates ‘triple bottom line’ results; and building assurance systems for compliance and credible and transparent public disclosure.

The Washington Post Equates CSR with Charity: #FAIL

By cjarvis on August 2, 2010 2 Comments BP, BP brand, charity, Chrystia Freeland, corporate social responsibility, CSR, CSR focus, education, environment, Exxon, financial crisis, good business, oil spill, philanthropy gulf oil spill, responsibility, safety standards, Thomson Reuters, triple bottom line, Washington Post, What’s BP’s social responsibility

Was Corporate Social Responsibility responsible for the BP spill? Absolutely! CSR? Don’t quit your day job! (so says the Washington Post)

The Food Revolution: Rethinking Fast Food

By Michael D Tam on July 23, 2010 2 Comments changing behavior, corporate social responsibility, Fast Food, First Lady, food, Food revolution, healthy diet, NakedPizza, obesity, Revolution Foods, SB10, social mission, Stonyfield, sustainability, Sustainable Brands, Sustainable Brands 10', Sustainable Life Media, Whole Foods

Robbie Vitrano, Co-Founder, NakedPizza, and Eric Quick, SVP Operations, Revolution Foods, presented at the 2010 Sustainable Brands Conference in June, not only bringing attention to the growing harmful consequences of fast food, but also providing innovative and real solutions.

Sustainability: What’s In It for Me? Creating a Cycle of Employee Engagement with Incentives

By Mary Modney on July 21, 2010 5 Comments corporate social responsibility, CSR, employee engagement, employee incentives, environment, environmental education, environmental literacy programs, GreenNurture, Johnson & Johnson, Mary Modney, National Environmental Education Foundation, NEEF, Stonyfield Farms, sustainability, sustainability education, Towers Watkins

Companies are attempting to motivate employees to do the “right,” or sustainable, thing when at work by increasing environmental and sustainability education and awareness and it is paying off with increased profits. Complementing education with incentives to engage a diverse workforce with varying levels of engagement and social consciousness motivates employees to take action.

Green Project Management: Supporting ISO 14000 Standards Through Project Management Processes

By Andrea Krasnoff on July 19, 2010 1 Comment A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Third Edition, Andrea Krasnoff, Capability Maturity Model Integrated, CMMI, Communications Management, Cost Management, Deming’s Plan-Do-Check-Act, EMS, environmental impact, environmental impacts, Environmental Management Policy, Environmental Management System, environmental policy, green project management, green project management methodology, greenpm, GreenPM methodology, greenthink, Human Resource Management, Integrated Change Control, Integration Management, International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14000, ISO 14001:2004, ISO14001, PDCA, PMBOK, PMI, Procurement Management, Project Charters, project management, Project Management Institute, project quality assurance, project quality control, quality audit, Quality Management, Quality Management Plan, quality management program, risk management, risk rating, risk response strategy, scope change, scope change process, Scope Management, Six Sigma, stakeholders, Time Management, Tom Mochal, WBS, work packages

An introduction to the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 14000 family of standards that have been developed for organizations to operate in way that sustains the environment, that explores how “greenthink” can be applied to project management in support of aligning with these standards.

Four Steps to Go Green Like eBay – Starting With Employees

By cjarvis on July 15, 2010 2 Comments @RealizedWorth, Annie Lescroart, Best Employee Engagement Strategy, Bike to Work Week, business case, CA, Ceres eBay, Chris Jarvis, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, corporate volunteering, e-recycling, e-waste, eBay, eBay Green Team, Employee Engagement Strategy, Employee Volunteer Programs, energy consumption, energy savings, EVP, Facebook, green, green building, Green Team, JustMeans Social Innovation Award, Net Metering bill, Realized Worth, San Jose, smart irrigation system, Social Media, solar panel, sustainable, twitter, Utah

In a recent interview, Annie Lesroart of eBay, shared with us how eBay implemented a fast, ambitious and effective strategy to go green. From forty employees, the program expanded to hundreds of thousands of eBay buyers and sellers (including people who don’t even work at eBay!) How did this happen? And how can it happen for you?

Greening Your Company’s Procurement

By Andrea Krasnoff on June 30, 2010 1 Comment

Green procurementThere are a number of areas within procurement that can be enhanced to consider the environment and help you establish a green procurement approach. including requiring that they meet any defined environment criteria for deliverable completion, using audits for validation; having the vendors inform you as to how they will align their processes to your organization’s environmental focus; and re-evaluating how environment requirements are weighted.