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Employees Should Be Part of Any Green Solution

By Kevin_Moss on March 21, 2010 1 Comment Baxter, Brighter Planet, BT Americas, community relations, corporate responsibility value, CSR, customer relations, employee engagement, employees, environmental, environmental investments, environmental programs, innovation, Kevin Moss, lean energy program, McDonald's, National Environmental Education Foundation, NEEF, operational efficiency, recruitment, retraining, solar;, Supply Chain Management, sustainability, sustainability education, sustainability initiatives, workplace

There are a tremendous number of business benefits of environmental and sustainability education for employees, including: improved operational efficiency, strengthened customer and community relations, innovation, supply chain management, and increased employee recruitment and retention.

The Business Case for Environmental and Sustainability Employee Education

By Tracey de Morsella on March 16, 2010 1 Comment air conditioning, Baxter, best practices, business case for environmentally literate employees, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon footprint, Carrie Freeman, conservation, cost avoidance, Diane Wood, E&S, E&S education pilot programs, eBay, employee education and engagement initiatives, employee engagement programs, employee environmental and sustainabity education, energy costs, energy efficiency, environmental education programs, environmental performance, environmental safety and health, Green Teams, incentives, Intel, lighting, Lockheed Martin, Margaret Lindeman, motivate employees, National Environmental Education Foundation, NEEF, recruitment, recycling, retention.business case for E&S education programs, solar;, stakeholder expectations, sustainability, sustainability activities, The Business Case for Environmental and Sustainability Employee Education, The Engaged Organization, Tracey de Morsella, waste reduction

Educating employees about energy efficiency,conservation, recycling, waste reduction and other similar measures benefit not only the companies that institute them, but also the organization’s employees, but also the communities in which they operate.

Who Tops Newsweek’s First Annual Green Rankings?

By Tracey de Morsella on September 21, 2009 1 Comment Agilent, Allegheny Energy, Ameren, American Electric Power, Applied Materials, Baxter, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Bunge, Business Ethics Magazine, Carbon Disclosure Project, Climate Center, Climate Change, Climate Counts, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, Conference Board, Consol Energy, corporate social responsibility officers, CorporateRegister.com, CSR, Dan Esty, David Vidal, Dell, EIS, emissions, energy, environmental footprin, environmental footprint, Environmental groups, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT SCORE, environmental impacts, environmental policies, FirstEnergy, GHGs, GREEN POLICIES SCORE, GREEN SCORE, greenbiz, greenest companies in America, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Intel Corporation, ITT, Joel Makower, John Steelman, Johnson & Johnson, KLD, KLD Research and Analytics, Kohl's, Marathon Oil, Marjorie Kelly, National Resource Defense Council, natural resources, Newsweek, Newsweek Green Rankings, NIKE, NRG Energy, Peabody Energy, PG&E, Praxair, regulatory compliance, REPUTATION SCORE, Southern, Starbucks, State Street, State Street Corporation, Tellus Institute, toxic waste emissions, Trucost, United Technologies, utility, Wells Fargo, Yale University, Z-scores

Today, Newsweek launched a ranking of the greenest companies in America in its current issue and Hewlett-Packard took top honors. The Newsweek Green Rankings is the first-ever report based on companies’ actual environmental footprint, policies and practices. The twelve-page report in the September 28 issue, features a green ranking of America’s 500 largest publicly-traded companies as measured by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees. On Newsweek.com, users can search and sort the data in several ways, analyze the detailed methodology of the study and submit and review comments.