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Green Supply Chains Need Innovative Sustainable Packaging

By Dave Meyer on July 14, 2011 1 Comment Accenture, Alpha Packaging, business sustainability, carbon footprint, Coca-Cola, Dave Meyer, Dell Computer, environmental, environmental packaging, forest stewardship council, General Mills, green packaging, Grocery Manufacturers Association, post consumer content, recycling, sustainability, sustainable packaging, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, sustainable packaging design, sustainable supply chain, Visiongain, Walmart

Looks at the importance of sustainable packaging in achieving a sustainable supply chain. Many factors ranging from form factor, packaging weight, to recyclable post consumer content and so forth acting in concert go into green packaging, which can lead to significant cost savings throughout the supply chain, at each single step where packaged materials are used, including consumer packaging itself. The post goes on to list important considerations and attributes related to green packaging.

Event Spotlight: Sustainable Brands ’10 Presents Leading Edge Strategies for Building Business by Innovating for Sustainability

By Tracey de Morsella on May 12, 2010 1 Comment 3M, brands, Bumble Bee Tuna, Clorox, Coca-Cola, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Hewlett-Packard, IDEO, Johnson & Johnson, Life Technologies, Monterey, Nestle, Nokia, SAP, SB’10, stakeholders, sustainability, Sustainable Brands 2010, Williams-Sonoma

Sustainable Brands 2010 – Where the Sustainability & Brand & Design Communities Come Together to Build Brand Leadership. Monterey Conference Center, June 7-10. Join 700+ sustainability executives, business and brand strategists, designers, and communications experts who are building brand value through sustainability.

Celebrating Women in Sustainability: 10 Women Making Strides in Sustainability – Updated January 26, 2011

By Aysu Katun on March 2, 2010 27 Comments Anita Roddick, Autodesk, Big Green Purse, Bonnie Nixon, Children on the Edge, Christina Nicholson, Coca-Cola, Community Service Volunteers Media, corporate sustainability programs, CSR, Diane MacEachern, Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Elizabeth Sturcken, Emma Stewart, Environmental Defense Fund, Erin Carlson, ethical consumerism, FedEx, Green Moms Carnival, Green Mountain Energy, Greenpeace, Hannah Jones, Hewlett-Packard, Interface Inc., Karen Flanders, Kimberly-Clark, Kira Gould, Lance Hosey, Microsoft, NIKE, Pottery Barn, sustainability, sustainability leaders, The Big Issue, The Body Shop, The Prince's Rainforest Project, UPS, Wal-Mart, Williams-Sonoma, Women in Green, women leaders, Women’s History Month, WWF, Yahoo, Yahoo! for Good

There is an increasing number of women who are in leadership roles in sustainability. As part of Women’s History Month, let’s take a look at ten women who are making strides in sustainability and shaping ethical consumerism. Add women in sustainability that you admire to the list in the comments section.

How Leading Companies are Pioneering Innovation in Carbon, Water and Waste

By Abhijit Khanna on December 13, 2009 2 Comments Abhijit Khanna, AquaSciences, AT Kearney group, BASF, biomimicry, business sustainability, Calera Corporation, Carbon, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon footprint, CEO Water Mandate, Chicago Climate Exchange, Climate Change, climate change risk management. Mandatory reporting, climate risks, Coca-Cola, compliance, corporate sustainability, corporate water strategy, CorporateRegister, creative destruction, desalinization, DJSI, Dole, Domani Consulting, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, DuPont, e-waste, ecoefficiency, Ecopatent Commons, environmental, environmental performance, Environmental Protection Agency, Global e-Sustainability initiative, Global Reporting Initiative, green innovation, Green Policies, green products, Green Rankings, green rankings. KLD, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Hewlett-Packard, innovation, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons, Interfaceflor, LEAN manufacturing, Levi Strauss and Company, life straw, NanoH20, nanotechnology, Nestle, NIKE, Nike Trash Talk, Patagonia, PepsiCo, reputation, reverse osmosis, risk management, risk management practices, SAB Miller, SB Boot Camp, Serious Materials, social performance, Sprint, Subaru, supply chain, sustainability consulting, sustainability performance, Sustainable Brands Boot Camp, Sustainable Life Media, Tennant, Trucost.Green Score, Vestergaard Fransden, Wal-Mart, waste, Water, Water Disclosure Project, water footprint, Water Footprint Network, water management companies, water neutraility, water neutrality, water utilized upstream, water-resource management, Waxman-Markey Kerry Boxer, Will Sarni, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Xerox, zero-waste

A summary of the second webinar in the Sustainable Brands Boot Camp series, Innovation Opportunities in Response to Today’s Environmental Hot Buttons: Climate Change, Water & Waste. The webinar was led by Will Sarni, CEO and founder of Domani Consulting, an integrated sustainability consulting firm, and featured examples of new, innovative business and product strategies from various markets that are successfully being brought to market in response to emerging environmental and social strains.

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.

The Business Case For Carbon Management Software: CFOs Will Be Compelled To Invest In It

By Tracey de Morsella on September 10, 2009 2 Comments accounting, audit costs, auditability, Board, brand exposure, Business Case For Carbon Management Software, CA ecoGovernance, carbon abatement, carbon abatement investments, carbon abatement spending, carbon accounting, carbon assets, carbon costs, carbon data, carbon data modelling tools, carbon data quality. Climate Disclosure Standards Board, carbon data verification, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon emissions communications, Carbon Hub, carbon liabilities, carbon management organiZation.carbon management strategy, carbon management software, carbon management systems, carbon prices, carbon reduction commitments, carbon reduction plan, CarbonView, Caterpillar, CFO, CFOs, change costs, cisco, climate change risk management. Mandatory reporting, climate change strategies, CO2 compliance deadline, CO2 targets, Coca-Cola, compliance costs, Crédit Agricole, David Metcalfe, emissions data, energy cost savings, enterprise carbon footprint, enterprise footprint, ESS, EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme, GHG audit, GHG reporting, global consistency, government regulations in a number of countries, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenstone Carbon Management, Hara, IHS, IHS opsInfo, implementation of carbon management software, Investors Want More Disclosure of Climate Risk Data from Corporations, mandatory reporting rules, National Grid, PE International, risk management, SAP, SAS, SAS for Sustainability Management, Shell Exploration & Production, supply chain carbon footprint, Tesco, The Gap, Verdantix, verification of carbon emissions data, Vodafone and Weyerhauser, Wal-Mart, Westin hotel, Xstrata

The financial risk of carbon liabilities, a need for better management control over carbon data, and new government regulations in a number of countries, will will compel CFOs to invest in carbon management software in the coming year. This is the main conclusion of the report, The Business Case For Carbon Management Software, from the research firm Verdantix. The report analyzes the business case for investing in carbon software from vendors like CarbonView, Carbon Hub, ESS, Greenstone Carbon Management, Hara, IHS, PE International, SAP and SAS.

How to Sell Green Marketing To Your Boss

By Sofia_Ribeiro on September 3, 2009 Comments Off on How to Sell Green Marketing To Your Boss brand value, carbon emissions, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola/NRC Recycling Bin Grant Program, competitive advantage, customer loyalty, eco approach, environment, environmentally friendly, environmentally sustainable, fair-trade practices, going green, Green Marketing, green marketing campaign, green marketing campaigns, green program, green washing, impact, Internet marketing, Kiwano Marketing, Light Greens, managers, market niche, Mintel, National Recycling Coalition, Nokia, NRC, packaging, reputation, sofia ribeiro, sustainable marketing, The Low-Car Diet Campaign, The Take-Back Campaign, traditional marketing, True Greens, word-of-mouth, Zipcar

Throughout the years, I have encountered many people who wanted to go green, but couldn’t sell the eco approach to the executive team. I believe most managers are simply not aware of what green marketing is, and why it’s better than traditional, non-green marketing.