Reporting & Disclosure
Getting Real About Measurement: How to Size Up the Triple Bottom Line
As businesses become increasingly strategic about sustainability, using metrics to measure and manage social, environmental and economic impacts has become standard practice. But how companies use that data to guide their activities varies significantly. Read More
The Green Business Decade in Review
As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't. Read More
How Should Wealthier Nations Help Poorer Ones Combat Climate Change?
Assisting poor countries now and in the future in adapting to climate change must be a top priority. Read More
A Night at Hamlet's Castle: Much Ado About … What?
Will a climate agreement by any other name smell as sweet? Read More
Post Office's First Sustainability Report Charts Agency's Green Path
In releasing its first-ever sustainability data, the U.S. Postal Service shows that it has cut total energy use by 9 percent in the past three years, while making strides in e-waste recycling and energy intensity. Read More
Autodesk Draws Up a New Way to Set Carbon Footprint Goals
The Autodesk team announced this week it has devised a new way of setting goals to reduce its carbon footprint. It's called the Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilizing Targets, or C-FACT, and the company hopes other businesses will adopt it and even help Autodesk make it better. Read More
How Companies Manage the Sustainability Tradeoffs
The director of MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment considers the decisions companies have to make if they want to be sustainable -- and challenges some of the conventional wisdom. Read More
Putting the Triple Bottom Line to Work
Although a recent article on GreenBiz.com questioned the usefulness of the triple bottom line concept, four key insights show how TBL can benefit organizations of any size and in any industry. Read More
Kraft to Increase Purchases of Rainforest Alliance Certified Cocoa Ten-Fold by 2012
Kraft Foods vowed to increase the amount of Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa beans ten-fold to 30,000 tons by late 2012, to be used in two premium chocolate brands sold in the European and North American markets. Read More
Soros Pledges to Invest $1B in Cleantech
Hedge fund guru George Soros becomes latest billionaire investor to unveil plans for investing in the fight against climate change. Read More