The following post is part of a CSRHub series focusing on 10 trends that are driving corporate transparency and disclosure in the coming year. To follow the discussion of each trend, watch for posts on the CSRHub blog every week. CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offers sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on nearly 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly [...]

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Supply chain leaders can make some improvements around sustainability – here are the first five steps.

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Coal ports in the Northwest threaten the regions work to reduce pollution and embrace clean energy.

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Crowd sourcing and the power of social media are changing the corporate social responsibility and sustainability landscape.

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The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings on over 5,000 of the world’s largest publicly traded companies. 3p readers get 40% off CSRHub’s professional subscriptions with promo code “TP40″ By Bahar Gidwani Slow Money is a national movement that [...]

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How do we begin to assess the impact of pro-active business activities? And hold business accountable to their claims?

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Companies are increasingly using social media as a tactic for corporate social responsibility and sustainability communications.

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Companies that strive to fill their board seats with women stand to benefit in several ways. Companies with female leadership often perform better, stand to reduce their fiduciary risk, and may have a better connection with a women-majority consumer base.

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The top eleven remarkable moments at the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics Conference

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Shell is preemptively suing 12 environmental organizations over drilling in the Arctic. Shell has attempted to bully its way through environmental concerns in the past, yet it has never produced the best results. This time is unlikely to be different.

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A new study by the BrownFlynn team sheds light on the effects of A-level GRI reporting.

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Whole Foods Market is performing very well in the stock market. An article on Motley Fool argued that these results are connected to the fact that Whole Foods’ mission is “making its business really matter, in far more ways than the traditional bottom line.” In other words, Whole Foods has become an impressive example to the business case of sustainability. But is it true?

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As climate deniers gain ahold of school curriculum, will the societal teachings of sustainability stick with our young children?

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What does stability over the past year mean for companies, their CSR ratings and their CSR performance?

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We believe several trends are driving corporate transparency and disclosure towards a tipping point where disclosure will be normal and opaque behavior will be aberrant.

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CSRHub users can now track corporate performance indicators and CSR ratings over time. What does this mean for CSR progress?

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As future generations take the lead in determining our sustainable future and responsible business, how will their innate conceptions and expectations for a responsible economy inform our challenges and solutions?

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Are people who care about CSR all only focused on environmental issues? It is important to investigate further what are the values that people care most about in corporate performance.

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Apple released details of its supply chain performance, via an extensive “Progress Report.”  Our friends at Supply Chain Matters provided a link to the report, and to a list of all of Apple’s suppliers.

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BP is putting a lot of money behind a TV commercial that opens with “This was the Gulf’s best tourism season in years.” In the sixty-second spot, businesses in Gulf cities like New Orleans and Panama City Florida invite tourists to come back. The ad is gorgeously filmed. Sparkling blue water. Giant flocks of birds. Sumptuous dishes of local fish. It’s the second wave of a campaign to restore tourism hurt by the BP oil spill and just one of BP’s efforts at restitution for regional businesses.

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A Tacoma-Pierce County, WA Task Force just sent its recommendations to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency about how to reduce soot in the air to meet EPA standards. The soot is created partly by diesel vehicles and industry, but the most (53 percent) is from wood burning stoves and fireplaces.

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This post was originally published on the CSRHub blog. By Bahar Gidwani Climate Counts recently released the fifth update of its well-known Climate Scorecard. In the report that accompanied the release, Mike Bellamente, the new director of Climate Counts, pointed out that 79 of the 136 rated companies had scores that showed they were “striding” towards improving [...]

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When a friend sent me this photo of a giant inflatable rat wearing a sign  “Asbestos Kills,” the first thing I thought of was Bahar Gidwani’s March 2011 post on CSRHUB blog. Gidwani’s piece was inspired and also illustrated by a rat photo he’d taken near the Citicorp building in midtown New York, which in turn was inspired by the rat’s presence several years ago at a building next to his that employed non-union staff. Why had it reappeared?

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Last month KPMG released the results of a survey of corporate social responsibility reporting that found that 95 percent of the Fortune 250 is now reporting on CSR activity. Among the largest 100 companies in each country surveyed, CSR reporting increased by 11 percent since 2008. Clearly, sustainability reporting is not just a passing trend. But [...]

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This post was originally published on the CSRHub Blog. By Carol Pierson Holding Banks are big proponents of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). They give extensively to charities, pay their employees generously and contribute to the environment with LEED certified buildings and sustainable operating practices. They measure and monitor the results of their CSR investment, and [...]

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Mother Nature had her day in the spotlight when she hit New York City with the first October blizzard in recorded history– on the same day Occupy Wall Street’s Environmental Action Group scheduled its first Climate Justice day.

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In the early 2000s, car sharing was a small-time counter-cultural service offered by community organizations in liberal and university markets. You heard about bigger companies tip-toeing around the market. Enterprise quietly started renting its cars by the hour to local residents in 2007.

Then suddenly, starting around Labor Day, concrete announcements from market leaders in cars and car leasing are everywhere.

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For the first time, I had the opportunity to attend the                                                                                   Corporate Responsibility magazine’s [...]

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In the past ten years, environmentally friendly cars have become a fixture in advertising. First came the Prius. Then BMW claimed its electric batteries boost performance, great for boosting the entire BMW brand. Chevy Volt, an electric hybrid, hypes range, innovation and American values, trying to minimize its differences from traditional cars. Nissan LEAF touts its green credentials, scooping up the ultra-green market.

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Last month, Newt Gingrich-trained spokesman for anti-global warming forces, Mark Morano, announced on Fox TV the “collapse of global warming science.” And he’s got legions reiterating his message. According to Morano, 7 of 8 lobbyists on global warming are now “anti-action” lobbyists.

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