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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.

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.

Buy it Ethically: Embedding CSR in The Procurement Function

By Elaine_Cohen on December 2, 2009 3 Comments buying, collaboration with competitors, CR, CSR, data sharing, Ethical Corporation, Green and Black, Hasbro, How to Embed Corporate Responsibility Across Different Parts of Your Company, HP, Mattel, PepsiCo, procurement, procurement operation, Sedex, Supply Chain executive, target setting, transparency

Elaine reviews the procurement section of the Ethical Corporation’s latest research publication on How to embed Corporate Responsibility across different parts of your Company and how issues of sustainability and ethics are embedded in the supply chain.

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.