Reporting: How the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Does It
In this post, Elaine analyzes the GRI’s own sustainability report, asking what extent GRI Stakeholders should be content with a report about direct impacts and outputs (the things that the GRI is saying, doing, using) versus a report about the outcomes the GRI can reasonably claim to have influenced.
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Setting a Strategy for Sustainability
Argues why businesses should move beyond the duality of environmental concerns……
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The Top 10 Women in Biofuels
As the founder of the Bay Area networking group, Women In Cleantech & Sustainability, I am keenly interested in learning about who the media thinks as being the most influential women in the field. However, it feels like every…
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The Top 10 Women in Biofuels
As the founder of the Bay Area networking group,…
Changing the Climate Conversation to Conservation
This post makes the argument that changing the conversation…
Changing the Climate Conversation to Conservation
This post makes the argument that changing the conversation…
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Social Media & CSR: Rules, People and Tools
Social Media goes hand in hand with corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and community investment, but figuring it all out can be daunting. Here are some rules you must know, people you must meet, and tools you must have.
States Can Create Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs
After feed-in tariff legal uncertainty, a January 2010 report by the National Regulatory Research Institute finds that states can successfully and legally implement feed-in tariff programs to accelerate renewable energy projects.
New Green Startup Accelerator Accepting Applications
Greenstart, a startup accelerator exclusively designed for cleantech companies, is seeking applications for the company’s inaugural three-month accelerator session, which begins on September 12. Submissions will be accepted until July 3
British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in The Loop Current – Florida Next
Scientists monitoring the massive BP oil spill with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Envisat radar satellite say that it has entered the Loop Current, a powerful oceanic conveyor belt that flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida. It is expected to begin impacting FLorida in six days time.