20 Questions To Ask Your Sustainability Reporting Manager

20 Questions To Ask Your Sustainability Reporting Manager

In this post Elaine focuses on the importance of critically reviewing the organization’s sustainability reporting by posing and then speaking to a series of questions that focus in on various aspects of how to evaluate the current state of an organizations sustainability reporting.

How to Set Sustainability Goals: The Do’s and Don’ts

How to Set Sustainability Goals: The Do’s and Don’ts

In this post Elaine gives some examples of successful sustainability goals and examples of goals that fall short of the mark, arguing that reporting needs to address what companies WILL do not just what they HAVE done. This post seeks to give insight on what is the right way for companies to establish sustainability goals.

Communicating the Business Value of CSR

Communicating the Business Value of CSR

This post examines how to communicate the business value of CSR to the stakeholders those important external groups that are linked with and can have large impacts on a company. The post goes on to point out various ways effective CSR initiatives can have a positive effect on the business and how it is becoming […]

Corporate Governance for Sustainability Needed for a Green Economy

Corporate Governance for Sustainability Needed for a Green Economy

Meeting the challenges of climate change and a global transition towards a sustainable economy is such a monumental task that it requires the suitable governance structures that are able to channel corporate and other resources toward sustainability. This post covers some of the issues in this important subject including carbon lock-in, shorthand for the “interlocking technological, institutional and social forces…that perpetuate fossil fuel-based infrastructures in spite of their known environmental externalities”. It suggests a four pronged approach combining regulatory requirements, economic incentives for sustainability, public pressures, and finally to restructure the foundations of corporate governance to serve multiple stakeholders.

Sustainability as a Profession?

Sustainability as a Profession?

What kind of jobs are available in sustainability, what kind of education and experience are required, will sustainability persist or will it fade away? Such questions lead one to ask what is sustainability? Multiple people have multiple definitions depending on their unique take on it. The triple bottom line is emerging as a defining conceptual explanation for what sustainability means, but widespread understanding of what this means remains somewhat shallow. This post suggests some of the expertise aspiring sustainability professionals should have.

Why Create a CSR Report? Because of a Real Return on Investment

Why Create a CSR Report? Because of a Real Return on Investment

Companies should create a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) report because of the a real ROI they stand to gain, either through reduced costs or increased revenue, or both. The key drivers include investors, market expectations, competitors, regulators, employees, and communities. Each of these drivers has at its core either increasing revenues, or reducing costs.

How to Use Social Media for Better Corporate Social Responsibility

How to Use Social Media for Better Corporate Social Responsibility

As corporate social responsibility and social media collide, David Connor examines the outcome – and provides tips on getting the most from CSR via social media.

Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill

Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill

This is an explanation of how Green Project Management could assist in incorporating environmental thinking in any project, factoring the environment into project management processes. The authors believe that a more structured approach to including the environment in all project management processes would have uncovered some of the issues faced at the BP Deep Water Horizon Spill, and led to some very different decisions during the project, prior to deciding to drill more than five thousand feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico.

Why Social Media Is Vital to Corporate Social Responsibility

Why Social Media Is Vital to Corporate Social Responsibility

Social media has begun to play a key role in how companies shape their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and present themselves as good corporate citizens. The standard for CSR is being redefined and is evolving as a driver of innovation. The bottom line is now three-fold, and is centered around people, planet, and profit. As business leaders strive to build more sustainable and socially responsible entities, formal social media strategies are becoming paramount.

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