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Live Blogging SB ’10 – Best Green Brands, Metrics for Success, CSR Best Practices, Responsible Profit, and More

By Tracey de Morsella on June 8, 2010 Comments Off on Live Blogging SB ’10 – Best Green Brands, Metrics for Success, CSR Best Practices, Responsible Profit, and More Annie Longsworth, Best Buy, Bruce MacGregor, CA Technologies, carbon management software, Charlie Brown, Christina Siun O'Connell, Cohn & Wolfe, corporate social responsibility, Credit360, CSR, CSR reports, CSR's Seven Best Practices, CSRHUB, Cynthia Figge, Dale Hart, Dara O'Rourke, Design for Behavior Change: Helping Consumers Co-Create a Better World, Domani, Domtar, Eco-Innovation, ecoSoftware, environmental responsibility, Ethical Markets Media, Gap, Getting Beyond the Spreadsheet: New Tools for Measuring Impact, Gil Friend, GoodGuide, green products to buy, GreenXchange, Hara Duncan Bradford, Hazel Henderson, HIP Investor, IDEO, Jason Saul, Jim Sullivan, Joel Riciputi, Kindley Walsh-Lawlor, Lewis Fix, market drivers, Mary Capozzi, Methodologie, Mission Measurement, Motivating Mainstream Consumers to Make Sustainable Choices, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Natural Logic, NIKE, Paul Herman, Perry Goldschein, Re-Defining the Metrics of Success: The Emerging Measures of Qualitative Growth, Responsibility AND Profit: From Corporate Responsibility to Responsible Profit, salesforce.com, SAP, sb '10, SDialogue LLC, Shelton Group, social enterprise, social good, social innovation, sustainability, sustainability initiatives, sustainable brand innovation, Sustainable Brands 10', Sustainable Business, sustainable development, sustainable innovation, sustainable products, Suzanne Shelton, Telling Your Story: CSR Reporting Case Studies Unwrapped, the Outdoor Industry Association, The Unfolding Green Brands Landscape: Notes on the Trendline, Today's Data Explosion and the Drive to Radical Corporate Transparency, Will Sarni Founder, Yahoo

We have a busy live blogging schedule today. The Green Economy Post team will be reporting on 11 sessions. In addition to our live blogging team, we will be streaming commentary from 0ver 70 SB ’10 attendees. Topics include: key market drivers, the best green brands, the metrics of qualitative growth, responsible profit, incfluencing consumers, drivers behind sustainable brand innovation, GreenXchange and eco-Innovation, CSR best practices, CSR Reporting Case Studies, tools for measuring environmental and motivating mainstream consumers to make sustainable choices. See our live blogging schedule for today

Role of Retail in Sustainability

By Jennifer_Rice on June 5, 2010 2 Comments Best Buy, consumers, corporate responsibility, Eco Options, EcoEasy, energy savings, green electronics, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Electronic Report, Home Depot, manufacturing, Market, Marks and Spencer, recycling, REI, retail, Staples, supply chain, sustainability, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods

As manufacturers continue incorporating sustainability practices within their product manufacturing processes and supply chains, the retail industry – as the main customer point of contact – bears the responsibility of educating consumers about the sustainability choices available in the market.