At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, participants had the opportunity to engage with a panel in a discussion of the 2011 worldwide agenda for the environment. Read more…
The White House has announced that Carol Browner is leaving her position as the White House “energy czar” and that the position is likely to be eliminated. Ms. Browner, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, led the unsuccessful effort to pass climate change legislation. She had also been the main defender of administration efforts to create comprehensive energy policy. Read more…
My article, “The Game of Sustainability Trade-Offs,” was just published in the Institute for Supply Management’s Inside Supply Management magazine Read more…
In Sunday’s New York Times, Matthew Wald’s Week in Review column focuses on how recent U.S. Department of Energy data reveals reductions in CO2 emissions from U.S. sources, a phenomenon mirrored around the world and tied to the slowdown in business and other activity because of the global recession. Read more…
2011 is here and we have another year in which we will find sustainability-related challenges and opportunities. Of couse, there will be continued focus on creating eco-efficiencies that reduce corporate environmental footprints. These will be driven (a) by the desire to capture associated cost savings, (b) to comply with new laws and regulations and (c) to meet stakeholder demands for greener products, processes and supply chains. All of this “Sustainability 1.0” work is good and necessary. Read more…
The Federal Government buys more than $500 billion in goods and services each year. That makes for an enormous and very complex supply chain, with some great chances for sustainability gains.
That’s why we’re excited to hear that the administration has begun to develop an incentives-based approach to making its supply chain more sustainable. Earlier this month, GreenGov, the government’s internal sustainability watchdog, launched the GreenGov Supply Chain Partnership and Small Business Pilot. Read more…
There’s been a whole raft of stories recently about companies waking up to the importance of their water use––especially around World Water Week earlier this year, when Coca Cola and Pepsi both published detailed reports on their ‘water footprints’. Read more…
Over at GreenBiz, a review by Marc Gunther of the new book Sustainable Excellence asks a very interesting question about sustainability and responsibility on the large scale. Read more…
GreenBiz.com’s Heather King recently interviewed Virgin America’s CEO David Cush. He’s in an interesting position because he’s (admittedly) in an industry that’s in the center of the action in sustainability and is also “led” by an innovative pioneer, Sir Richard Branson, who has made it known he’s willing to invest in and champion sustainability. Read more…
How can a company drive sustainability through its supply chain? It’s a point we’ve often addressed: if an organization wants to be green, it isn’t necessarily enough to focus on internal processes. The carbon footprint of a company’s product is affected by the sustainability practices of the suppliers it uses. Read more…