Serving people, planet and profit: An 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business for entrepreneurs, activists, and decision makers
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ClimateCounts.org, a non-profit organization funded by Stonyfield Farm, has a mission to “bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change”. The principal tool used to achieve that is the Climate Counts Company Scorecard rating the “climate commitment” of 60 major corporations across 9 industry sectors. In collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet, ClimateCounts released their first annual scorecard last year.
The scorecard, based on 22 criteria (pdf), showed if a company was “stuck”, “starting”, or “striding” toward climate responsibility.
Last week ClimateCounts released their second annual scorecard showing that, overall, businesses have improved since one year ago. The average company score rose 22%, or a 39 out of 100 (0 = really [really] bad; 100 = phenomenal (to which no company comes close).
Some companies are a bit cool to the whole idea behind ClimateCounts. Amazon, who managed to pull their score from a zero all the way up to a blistering high of five, shrugs off the rating, citing “significant progress” in reducing their carbon footprint. (five being infinitely better than zero).
Companies like Google, who has pledged to become carbon neutral, showed a bit more enthusiasm for the project, and rightly so, rising 38 points from last year to 55.
A breakdown by ranking shows Nike at the top with an 82 and Wendy’s International in a dead heat for last place with Jones Apparel Group, Darden Restaurants, and Burger King, all scoring zero.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) yesterday announced the implementation of a GHG program in Brazil. The 'Brazil...[read more]
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Leading multinational manufacturers, members of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Council, announced the results of their initial survey and effort to promote greenhouse gas emissions reporting and reduction throughout their supply chain networks.[read more]
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Research by the Kenexa Corp. indicates that organizations’ environmental activities and records can significantly influence the views employees’ and potential hires have about managements’ credibility, trustworthiness, and ability to manage and lead, as well as workers’ job satisfaction and employee retention.[read more]
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It was announced yesterday that Dell Computer’s 2.1 million-square-foot headquarters in Round Rock, Texas is now powered entirely with renewable...[read more]
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And if you were to ask Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s CEO, he’d say Wal-Mart isn’t green at all – which doesn’t seem...[read more]
Public skepticism and mistrust of businesses’ efforts to “go green” not only pose problems for corporations making honest, substantive efforts to do so, they pose significant obstacles for the type of local-to-globally coordinated efforts necessary to mitigate climate change and enhance energy security. Bridging this credibility gap was the subject of a recent GreenPepper “Eco-Concerns” survey. [read more]
The Carbon Disclosure Project and Merrill Lynch & Co. have joined in a three-year global partnership that aims to spur wider adoption of corporate carbon accounting and disclosure standards and help channel investment $$$ into carbon and greenhouse gas reduction projects. [read more]
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At the invitation of the U.S. government, public and private sector leaders will be gathering in Washington D.C. early March for WIREC 2008, the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference. The third such event, organizers are busy lining up voluntary pledges from participants to promote and foster renewable energy, which are to be collected and publicly released as the Washington International Action Plan.[read more]
As leaders in the corporate sustainability movement, it is important to be able to share our ideas with others...[read more]
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