Category Archives: sustainability
Hospitality Industry Needs to Expand Sustainability Program Participation
By Jennifer Moon The largest hotel companies have all launched sustainability or corporate responsibility programs. The programs feature significant similarities and differences. This post provides an overview of how the programs of the top firms compare. The top five hotel … Continue reading
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Seven Highlights from 2011 and the Outlook for 2012
With the end of 2011 in sight and a new year on the horizon, it’s a good time to reflect and to plan. Let’s reflect on the key events in supply chain sustainability from 2011. Highlights from 2011 So many … Continue reading
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Wielding Influence as a Sustainability Leader
With small budgets but big responsibilities, wielding influence is a critical skill for sustainability leaders. Influence, and how to get it, are among the topics explored in the latest Green Research corporate sustainability study. A handful of top sustainability executives believe … Continue reading
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Book Review: Greener Products
Greener Products: The Making and Marketing of Sustainable Brands by Al Iannuzzi CRC Press; November 8, 2011 Creating a sustainable society will depend in large part on reducing the environmental impacts of making, distributing and using products and of disposing … Continue reading
Filed under Life Cycle Assessment, marketing, sustainability, waste management, water
Traditional Marketing Discovers Sustainability
By Bonnie J. Wallace Philip Kotler, influential marketing guru, has published an article announcing that marketers must begin to account for environmental constraints in their marketing strategies. Kotler declares the new norm in the July 2011 issue of the Journal … Continue reading
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Corporate Sustainability Leaders to Focus on Employee Engagement and Supply Chain in 2012
Study Identifies the Only Two Sustainability Ranking Schemes Relevant to a Majority of Companies New York City (November 30, 2011) – Green Research, a New York-based corporate sustainability research and advisory firm, today released a new report based on its … Continue reading
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I Laughed, I Cried, I Responded
Critics are raving about the Green Research sustainability executive survey: “When it was all over, I felt exhausted, but also possessed of a strange need to scream, or laugh, or run all the way home, or pick up parked cars … Continue reading
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The Strategy Behind Sustainability 3.0
I am not a fan of these 2.0/3.0/4.0 monikers. (Anyone remember Web 2.0?) But the new article by Yvon Chouinard, Jib Ellison, and Rick Ridgeway in the October 2011 issue of the Harvard Business Review uses the term Sustainability 3.0 … Continue reading
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Engagement
The National Environmental Education Foundation and GreenBiz today released a new study of sustainability and employee engagement. There’s very useful material in this report. But does it look at the topic backwards? The study, “Toward Engagement 2.0: Creating a More … Continue reading
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Inside the Companies Ranked by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Last week SAM and Dow Jones Indexes announced the 2011 results of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes Annual Review. The Dow Jones Sustainability Index is one of the best known sustainability rankings of public companies. Because it is intended to … Continue reading
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Shining a Light on Supply Chains of Generic Pharmaceutical Makers
It was an interesting coincidence that the New York Times ran a story about the supply chains of the makers of generic drugs last week, on the heels of our report about pharma sustainability goals. The article characterized these supply … Continue reading
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Pharma Companies Face a Supply Chain Sustainability Opportunity
We published another sustainability goals benchmark report today, this one focused on the pharmaceutical industry. A couple of things that stand out from the benchmark: – Judging from the goals they have announced, the major pharmas are serious about sustainability. … Continue reading
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Immature Management Practices Put Sustainability Goals at Risk: New Research
A growing number of companies are using public announcements of sustainability goals as a means of signaling their commitment to become sustainability leaders and to compete for superior positioning versus their rivals. But many companies are unprepared. That’s one of … Continue reading
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Sustainability Without Metrics
If you want to understand how major brands think about sustainability; if you want to join a community of professionals who are working to make major brands sustainability leaders; if you want to be inspired by leaders who make money … Continue reading
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Leading LCA Tool Vendor PE International Bulks Up with Five Winds
PE International, the leading vendor of software tools for life cycle assessment, announced today that it was merging with Five Winds International, a sustainability consulting firm with deep expertise in life cycle assessment. The acquisition gives PE International a deeper … Continue reading
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