Unilever & Gisele Take Top Honors at International Green Awards
The Sixth International Green Awards celebration took place at a glittering gala in London last week. The awards, which are accredited by the Royal Society of Arts, were established to recognize creativity in promoting international sustainability, focusing on media, communication, product design, people and innovation. Their goal is to “bring together and make more visible a [...]
BSR Survey Finds Sustainability, Human Rights Top Business Concerns
BSR, led by President and CEO Aron Cramer, held a media event announcing the results of a global business survey poll that reveals sustainability, in fact, ranks highly within companies’ core strategies and operations.
Tweet Up Time: “Building a Sustainable Economy” with Presidio Graduate School
Happy Tuesday! It’s time for the first ever tweet up put on by 3p and the Presidio Graduate School. Starting at 6pm PST tonight we will join moderator William Shutkin, President and CEO of the Presidio Graduate School and sustainable business thought leaders and forward-thinking members of the community to discuss strategies for a just, [...]
Tweet Up Tuesday: Building a Just, Prosperous & Sustainable Economy
Have You Heard About the Susty Tweet-Up? We’ve had a big week here at 3p, but the work continues. As part of our partnership with the Presidio Graduate School, we are excited to present a “tweet up” next Tuesday night from 6pm until 9pm PST. The Topic: Occupy America: Strategies for a Just, Prosperous and [...]
What is the Access Economy? Find Out Thursday the 20th
We’ve had a long and friendly relationship with SustainableIndustries.com over the years, and one of our favorite repeat events is their excellent series of “economic forums” which have taken place in a number of cities over the years, most frequently here in San Francisco. Next Thursday, October 20th, I have been graciously invited to moderate [...]
Get Ready for Opportunity Green 2011 in Los Angeles
Although we promote and attend dozens of excellent conferences every year, there are a handful we’ve grown very close with. Opportunity Green – heading into its 4th year in Los Angeles is one of our favorites for a variety of reasons. Los Angeles is the global center of popular culture, from which messages (both green [...]
Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project: The Denial Ends Today
Al Gore is mad as hell about his campaign to get the word out about global warming being smothered by a heavily funded doubt campaign and a disinterested media, and he’s not going to take it anymore. But unlike Howard Beale in the 1976 film “Network,” he hasn’t simply gone to the nearest window to [...]
Coming up: Green Initiatives Conference, Ft. Lauderdale
Business leaders and academics alike have hailed Sustainability as the next mega-trend in business much the same way that “JIT” (just in time inventory) and CRM technologies and strategies sparked a revolution in the 80’s and 90’s and is now de rigeur. As our readers know, we’ve been particularly keen as of late to promote [...]
Discussing Peak Resources High in the Swiss Mountains
By: Piotr Jędrzejuk Sooner or later we will run out of our natural resources. And, before real scarcity hits, resource prices will boom. International tensions will rise. Pollution will increase, since we have to dig deeper and deeper in more and more remote areas. The health and social impacts of our hunger for resources in [...]
SXSW Eco Roars Onto Susty Conference Scene
Those of you who have been reading 3p for a while know I’ve been attending the South by Southwest Interactive Media Conference in Austin for years. Most people in the know consider it to be the most important conference of the year for anything related to web technology and new media. However, many of us [...]
London’s Olympic Stadium Scores High-Tech Wrap from Dow
Dow Chemical’s new Performance Plastics Division has stepped in with funding for the 2012 London Olympic’s stadium wrap. But is it really “sustainable?”
Please Join Us For a Reader Appreciation Happy Hour
TriplePundit is a leading news site for sustainable business news, but it wouldn’t matter if we didn’t have you, our readers, reading and responding to our posts. We love engaging with you online, but we’d like to meet you in person too! That’s why we’re throwing a Reader Appreciation Happy Hour. Here are the details: [...]
JustMeans: Certification, Consumption and Change Conference
We’ve promoted a lot of conferences over the years, and JustMeans.com has always put together some of the most interesting. The Certification, Consumption and Change conference brings together thought leaders from leading brands, NGOs, certifying bodies and service providers for a day of thought-provoking panel discussions on issues confronting ethical certifiers, eco-labels and the conscious [...]
Earth Day 2011: A Billion Acts of Green
When Earth Day was created in 1970, it was considered to be the birth of the modern environmental movement. April 22 of each year, and often the entire week, is devoted to celebrating environmental service and advocacy. University functions, citywide festivals, tree planting and beach cleaning events, and even concerts celebrate a consciousness to preserve [...]
U.S. NGOs that Are Moving the Needle on Climate Change
The past few weeks I have been openly critical of Earth Hour (from WWF) and even 350.org because I believe they could do so much more to mobilize the world to really move the lever on climate change. I personally believe that in order to change our trajectory on this planet, we need to make [...]
Secrets of Getting a (Green) Job
Many of us at one point in time have been looking for a job. Readers of this site may be looking specifically for a “green” or sustainability-oriented job. But what are the secrets to landing that ever alluring position? Last Wednesday, the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles (SBCLA) in conjunction with the Graziadio School [...]
Whole Foods Announces Traveling Film Festival to Celebrate Earth Month
In celebration of Earth Month, Whole Foods announced last week that they will be presenting a traveling Do Something Reel Film Festival, which will touch down in 70 cities across the U.S. during April. Launching this upcoming Friday, the collection of six films will focus on food, environmental issues and everyday people with a vision [...]
Does Earth Hour Truly Benefit the Environment?
Earth Hour will be taking place this Saturday, March 26th, between 8:30-9:30pm local time. Call it an initiative, campaign, or annual ritual, its going onto its fifth year. People are encouraged to turn their lights out for one hour to bring attention to global sustainability issues. Earth Hour is lead by the WWF. No, not [...]
How to Keep all these EVs Charged
Check out this great webcast from our partners at the Energy Collective: Live Webcast March 24, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT Electric vehicles offer a major opportunity for more energy-efficient transportation, as well as reduced dependency on carbon-producing fuels. However, the cars themselves are only half the solution. We must create a new [...]
Corporate Social Responsibility at Tokyo Electric Power Company
By Pankaj Arora The current situation unfolding at the TEPCO operated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor is reaching a strange state of continual deterioration as stated by international security analyst Jim Walsh. TEPCO has displayed a cool and controlled stance until now, but its past track record makes it a bit questionable. In several instances in the past, [...]
Case Study: Corporate Social Responsibility in the US
Ed note: this content is provided by the Ethical Corporation and is an example of the material that will be presented at the NYC Responsible Business Summit in June. Click here for more information. US companies are not as heavily regulated as those in other developed nations, and corporate responsibility is not addressed as a [...]
New Online Sustainable MBA on the Scene
Antioch University New England’s Sustainable MBA is a proud sponsor of Triple Pundit Thinking about pursuing an MBA in sustainable management? Antioch University New England’s online program may be just the ticket. The online program delivers the same curriculum and faculty found in the 24-month weekend program and the 12-month accelerated program, but students can [...]
Global Service Jam: 205 Socially Responsible Services in 22 hours
Last weekend, over 1500 service designers and ingenues came together in 59 cities around the world to develop new public service models in 22 hours (30 if they stayed up all night). The Global Service Jam 2011 was the first of its kind, the biggest chapter in London. The participants were guided by mentors, old [...]
ISO 26000 and the Definition of Social Responsibility
If you’re interested in learning more about ISO 26000, please consider attending the ASQ Social Responsibility Conference June 16–17, 2011, in San Francisco. ASQ provided this snippet from their recently released white paper of the same name. The conference will provide insight into the application of the new SR standard, ISO 26000: Guidance on Social [...]
Responsible Business Summit Comes to NYC this June
Take a quick peek at the event calendar in the sidebar at right, and you’ll see more sustainability conferences than you can shake a stick at. Many sustainability professionals go it alone in their companies and conferences provide a much needed reality check from peers about the state of sustainability. But, with dozens of conferences [...]
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Conference Focuses on the ‘Next West’
These are exciting times for land use planning. While that may be the first time “exciting” and “land use planning” have shared a sentence, the creators of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s 20th annual conference can make that case. As the nation emerges from financial crisis, as markets coil to rebound from recession, and [...]
Largest Study Begins on Impact of Oil Spill on Human Health
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has just kicked off what is believed to be the largest study ever conducted on the impact of oil spills on human health. Individuals who helped with the clean up of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year will be monitored for the [...]
International Women’s Day Spotlights Growing Support for Women Worldwide
International Women’s Day was first celebrated in Europe in 1911. In the years since, it has become a global day to celebrate the achievements of all women – past, present, and future. In some countries it’s a national holiday. Recently, there has been an explosion of nonprofit and corporate-sponsored efforts to empower women and girls around the world [...]
Top 5 Executive Education Programs in Climate Change
Triple Pundit kindly offered me this digital real estate to discuss a range of topics related to intersecting commerce and climate change. I like to call this “climate capitalism.” The past month or so I have done a deep dive on universities around the world who are starting to show an interest in promoting climate [...]
EPA Examines Consumption and the Environment
Will understanding the psychology, patterns, and economics behind over-consumption help us navigate the road ahead? The West Coast EPA is hosting a year long webinar series that highlights the link between consumption and the environment to do just that. By providing information and access to thought-leaders, they hope to expand the conversation on environmentalism. The series [...]
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Webinar: Feb 17Greening Stonyfield Farm: As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner will discuss efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He will discuss the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome.
Webinar: Feb 29Product Scorecards for Sustainability: Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.
NY: Mar 19-20Wall Street Green: The longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow.
Bay Area: Mar 22-23GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!
SF: Mar 26-28Cleantech Forum San Francisco: The 2012 Cleantech Forum San Francisco will mark the 10th anniversary of Cleantech Forums, the annual gathering of the global clean technology innovation community. Our theme this year is “The Power of Global Partnerships,” an exploration of how strategic relationships are playing an ever more important role in the future of clean technology. For a $300 Discount use code "VIPofTriplePundit " More Info.
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Webinar: Feb 17Greening Stonyfield Farm: As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner will discuss efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He will discuss the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome.Webinar: Feb 29Product Scorecards for Sustainability: Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.NY: Mar 19-20Wall Street Green: The longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow.Bay Area: Mar 22-23GRI Certified Training: Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!SF: Mar 26-28Cleantech Forum San Francisco: The 2012 Cleantech Forum San Francisco will mark the 10th anniversary of Cleantech Forums, the annual gathering of the global clean technology innovation community. Our theme this year is “The Power of Global Partnerships,” an exploration of how strategic relationships are playing an ever more important role in the future of clean technology. For a $300 Discount use code "VIPofTriplePundit " More Info.SF: April 10-12 Navigating the American Carbon World: The must-attend event for professionals in the carbon landscape. Over the past decade, NACW has consistently provided informative content, thoughtful discussions and outstanding opportunities for collaboration.Have your event listed here.
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