The management systems community
17th Mar 2008
This set of guidelines, accompanied by case studies from five businesses, explains the steps a business should take to identify what ecosystems it depends on and the risks and opportunities related to changes in those ecosystems.
17th Mar 2008
The Maine lobster industry is seeking to have its lobster certified as sustainable by the London-based Marine Stewardship Council.
17th Mar 2008
In the current wave of the environmental movement, there is quite a bit of talk. But research from Natural Marketing Institute shows that there is also quite a bit of action.
10th Mar 2008
It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
28th Feb 2008
The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation’s first independent certification for carbon offset products.
Event: 24th Jun 2008 – 25th Jun 2008
Taking you from step one to step ten to achieve a green supply chain
30th Jan 2008
While investors believe the environment is a serious business issue, they also believe that many companies have yet to view it that way.
21st Jan 2008
Virgin Money is launching a green fund which will invest only in companies committed to high environmental standards.
21st Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
An article in The Observer brings home the harsh realities that consumers, business and government have to face in dealing with climate change.
18th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
Alcoa is the latest organisation to sign up for the California Climate Registry (CCR), making their carbon emissions available to the public.
The CCR is awarding founding reporter status to companies that sign up to the scheme before May 2008, as an incentive for early membership.
Companies that sign up commit to voluntarily measure, independently verify and publicly report their industrial gas emissions.
The CCR’s Gary Gero is interviewed in this Voluntary Carbon Standard podcast.
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