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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

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.

The Four Best Practice Strategies Needed for Successful Carbon Management

By Tracey de Morsella on March 10, 2010 1 Comment BAE Systems, Best Practices Carbon Management, BHP Billiton, BP, building management systems, business process changes, carbon issue, carbon management, carbon management strategies, carbon reduction plan, CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officer, cisco, CO2 emissions, CO2 reduction goals, cross-functional strategy, CSR Directors, Dow Chemical Company, electric vehicle fleet trials, energy managers, finance, financial analysis, fuel data, granular energy, HP, Operations, Peter Charville-Mort, Proctor & Gamble, SAP, social responsibility, sustainability programs, Tracey de Morsella, transformational change, unintended consequences, Verdantix, Wal-Mart

A new report released by independent research firm, Verdantix, explains why firms are floundering with carbon management and putting the future of the business at risk due to flawed governance and strained business processes. It warns that unless CEOs take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge their firms will fail to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions.

Carbon Accounting Software Market Experiencing Tremendous Growth

By Tracey de Morsella on March 8, 2010 1 Comment 2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Al Gore, AMR Research, Climate Change, Computer Associates, Condoleezza Rice, ECA, ECA market, ECA startups, EHS, emissions management, Enablon, Energy Management, energy savings, EnerNoc, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Enviance, environmental health and safety vendors, environmental impact, GHG, GHG emissions, GHG Software Products, greenhouse gas emissions, Groom Energy Solutions, Hara, IHS, Johnson Controls, market consolidation, Microsoft venture capital, Paul Baier, PE International, ProcessMAP, SAP, Stephen Stokes, sustainability investments, Verdantix, Walmart Supplier Sustainability Assessment Program

carbon accounting softwareWhile other industries are sputtering along or even tanking, as a result of the global recession, the emerging Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) software market is experience a phase of phenomenal growth. The number as providers has almost doubled, venture capital money is flowing freely and Groom Energy predicts that ECA software purchases will increase 600 percent by 2011

The Traits of a Highly Effective and Successful Chief Sustainability Officer

By Tracey de Morsella on March 4, 2010 1 Comment Allianz Insurance, British Airways, BT, CA, carbon reporting risks, Carbon Systems, CH2M Hill, Chief Sustainability Officer, Chrysler, cisco, Climate Change, climate change strategy, CO2 reduction, compliance risks, corporate social responsibility, CSO, Deloitte, Dow Chemical Company, ECX, efficiency gains, energy cost savings, Energy Management, Fiat, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Hara, IBM, IHS, Kroger, low carbon business model, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, natural resource efficiency, Norman Broadbent, operational efficiencies, Orange, SAP, Shell, Siemens, sustainability governance, sustainability initiatives, Sustainability management, sustainability plans, sustainability products, sustainability risks, sustainability strategy, sustainable business strategies, sustainable growth markets, target emissions goals, Tesco, Toyota, Unilever, UTC, Verdantix

Verdantix, recently released a free report, that explains why the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) is needed, defines the role of the CSO, and provides a profile to guide the appointment of the CSO. It also explains why organizations face a climate change and sustainability management deficit, why fixing sustainability governance gains is becoming a major priority by a growing number of firms, how the CSO can spearhead business transformation, who the ideal candidate for the chief sustainability officer role is, and what are the three priority areas of domain expertise.

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.

Who are The Top Green IT Outsourcing Vendors?

By Tracey de Morsella on August 28, 2009 Comments Off on Who are The Top Green IT Outsourcing Vendors? Accenture, Aramark, Black Book Research, BPO, Brown-Wilson Group, Business Process Outsourcing, Capgemini, CIBER, CSC, Document Process Outsourcing, DPO, energy costs, Engineering Services Outsourcing, environmental waste, ESO, Facilities Management Outsourcing, FAO, Finance and Accounting Outsourcing, FMO, green initiatives, green IT data center strategies, Green Outsourcing IT survey, green sigma, greenhouse gases, HCL, Hewlett-Packard, HRO, Human Resources Outsourcing, IBM Global, ITO, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, KPO, Legal Process Outsourcing, Logica, LPO, Mastech, Océ Business Services, Oracle, outsourcing service providers, outsourcing spending, Patni, Perot Systems, Professional Employer Organizations, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, recycling programs, SAIC, SAP, SITEL, sustainability, sustainability-focused outsourcers, Top Green IT Outsourcers; Information Technology Outsourcing, Top Green Technology Outsourcing Vendors, Top North American Green Technology Outsourcing Vendors; Top IAAS/Cloud Computing Green Technology Outsourcing Vendors; Top Transportation/Supply Chain; Top Green Consultants, Wipro, WNS Global, Xerox

Each year, Brown-Wilson Group and Black Book Research undertakes an annual survey of outsourcing service providers’ green initiatives from the perspective of their client experience. These research results represent an extensive and representative perception study of outsourcing vendors, validated by 1,338 unique company respondents from service users around the globe earlier this year. Over 7,000 individual nominations were received during the survey. They surveyed outsourcing buyer CIOs, governance, buyers, user managers &
corporate executives uncovered both the progress of suppliers and to determine who are the cream of the crop when it comes to Green IT. Xerox topped the list, followed by Accenture, CSC, Capgemini and IBM Global.