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How to Have a Successful Sustainability or CSR Career – Free 80 Page Guide

By GEP- Admin on April 29, 2011 3 Comments Center for Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Careers That Make a Difference, corporate social responsibility, corporate social responsibility careers, CSR, csr careers, environmental issues. Liz Maw, Herman Miller, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NetImpact, social issues, sustainability, sustainability careers

NetImpact and The Center for Corporate Citizenship are offering a free guide entitled Corporate Careers That Make a Difference provides a practical framework for career development in sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Pink Announces Their List of The Top Women in Sustainability

By Tracey de Morsella on January 26, 2011 4 Comments 2011, 5 Women to Watch, Aflac, Alison Taylor, Betsy Holland, Brigitta Witt, Britta Gross, Calvert Investments, Citi Foundation, Citigroup, CitiGroup Senior Leadership Committee, cleantech, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, corporate social, CSR, Dell, Elizabeth Johnson, Ernst & Young, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, good governance, green building, Hyatt, Ingrid Saunders Jones, Intel Corporation, Jane Connell, Johnson & Johnson, Kathryn Brown, Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, KPMG, Leisha John, Lorie Wigle, Mary Wenzel, Pam Flaherty, Pat Rayl, PINK, responsibility, Siemens, socially responsible investment, solar;, Susan Cischke, sustainability, The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Turner Broadcasting, Verizon, Wells Fargo, wind, women, women in sustainability, Women's History Month

Last year, during Women’s History Month, we published, our list of the top women in sustainability. This week, PINK released their list of the top women in sustainability for 2011. These are women who they see as pioneers who are employing cutting-edge best practices to lead the movement for corporate responsibility and sustainability

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.

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.

Carbon Management Is Becoming a Core Supply Chain Business Issue

By Tracey de Morsella on March 15, 2010 1 Comment A.T. Kearney, Acer, BAE Systems, Bank of America, Baxter International, Brad Minnis, Cadbury, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon emissions, carbon management, carbon reduction, Carrefour, CDP Supply Chain Report, Climate Change, Colgate-Palmolive Company, ConAgra Foods, Daniel Mahler, Dell, EMC Corporation, emissions, ENEL, energy reduction, Europe, FIJI Water, GHG management, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, green house gas, H.J. Heinz Company, HP, IBM, Imperial Tobacco Group, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Juniper Networks, Kao, L'Oréal, Logica, National Australia Group, National Grid, Newmont Mining Corporation, Paul Dickinson, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble Company, Reckitt Benckiser, Royal Mail Group, Sony Corporation, supplier engagemen, suppliers, supply chain, Tracey de Morsella, Unilever, Vivendi, Vodafone Group

Companies are now requiring their suppliers to address carbon management as a core business issue. A plan to deselect some suppliers in the future for failing to meet carbon management criteria set by the companies. These organizations are increasinigly developing strategies for engaging with suppliers on carbon related issues amd have emissions or energy reduction plans in place.

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.

Who are The Top 50 U.S. Green Power Purchasers?

By Tracey de Morsella on April 27, 2009 1 Comment and low-impact hydropower, biogas, biomass, Cisco Systems, City of Houston, CO2 emission2, Dannon, Dell Inc., environmental impacts, EPA, EPA's Green Power Locator, Geothermal, green power, Green Power Partnership, green power purchasers, greenhouse gas emissions, Intel Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, kilowatt-ho, Kohl’s Department Stores, Motorola, PepsiCo, pollution, procurement, renewable resources, solar;, Sony DADC, The Pepsi Bottling, U.S. Air Force, Wal-Mart Stores, Whole Foods Market, wind

EPA today released a list of the nation’s top green power purchasers. These organizations are all participants in the EPA’s Green Power Partnership. The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The Partnership currently has hundreds of Partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, and colleges and universities. The list this year’s top green power purchasers is led by Intel Corporation, PepsiCo, Kohl’s Department Stores, Dell Inc., Whole Foods Market, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Air Force, Cisco Systems, Inc. and the City of Houston.