In this interview, Sourcemap founder Leonardo Bonanni shares his quest to shed light on supply chains and to make them more sustainable.

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Patagonia has released its Footprint Chronicles, one tool to help customers and stakeholders learn more about the the company’s global operations and suppliers.

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The Checks and Balances Project and Climate Progress revealed a memo outlining a national PR campaign to undermine and sabotage the wind power industry.

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H&M, the global fast fashion leader, has ramped up its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts in recent years, improving performance on labor and the environment.

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Dr. Bronner’s, like its founder, Emanuel Bronner, is a story of a company’s great highs and the lowest of lows.

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In this video interview, author of The Unhealthy Truth, Robyn O’Brien, chronicles her journey behind the American food system, which started when her youngest of four kids developed an egg allergy.

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The consumer trend tracking firm Trendwatching.com is covering a new trend called “Flawsome” which shows why businesses who truly embrace their flaws will come out on top, and why those who don’t are likely to suffer from consumer indifference and maybe even disdain.

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Campbell Soup Company recently announced that it will phase out the use of BPA in its can linings, in part due to the advocacy of the Breast Cancer Fund.

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Unilever, the food and consumer packaged goods giant, branched out its United Against Waste campaign to its North American division.

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A new study by the University of California provides evidence that companies that publicly announce information about their carbon emissions will see a significant and almost immediate increase in share price.

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Although there’s been a lot of progress around labor transparency, Apple’s recent issues show there’s still quite a way to go. LaborVoices is turning to the humble but highly effective telephone to actively address this issue. And make a profit from various channels while doing it.

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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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These trends, which range from a boom in certified multi-family construction to the advent of consumer friendly home energy technology, were identified by us based on discussions with a broad range of audiences over the latter part of 2011.

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McDonald’s will soon roll out a new ad campaign that will feature the sage and long time American icon, the farmer. Lettuce and potato growers will see TV time.

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In working with a variety of corporations and organizations one issue is becoming increasingly prominent: the growing need to disclose efforts to act in a more sustainable manner. In that context, the trend towards greater transparency ultimately is headed in one direction – an “Integrated Report” in which financial and nonfinancial performance are tied together and articulated in a single document. Although there is no formal standard to what constitutes an integrated report, there is growing evidence that the financial markets reward those companies that engage in sustainable behavior and disclose those efforts in a comprehensive manner, including impact on bottom line performance.

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A look back at the role of corporate banks during the financial crisis of 2008 and a look at other options such as Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs).

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Olfa Strauss’ experience this summer and how her company handled protests over rising food costs and wealth inequality in Israel will be an enduring case study for other companies in the Middle East that will feel pressure to change their ways throughout a region that demands more accountability and dignity from their leaders.

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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.

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By: Joe Lawless What is corporate social responsibility and why should any business care about it?  Corporations have been debating about social responsibility since the 1950s.  What has changed in the intervening 60 years is consumers’ access to information – the good, the bad and the ugly.  Good information about the noble acts of firms [...]

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Ernst & Young released a report earlier this week that explains how sustainability can and will change the role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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The scandal that is currently rocking the media world puts Rupert Murdoch clearly in the epicenter of the storm. News of the World (NoW), a UK based publication of News International (NI) has been accused of hacking a murdered school girl’s phone. The scandal has resulted in the resignation and consequent arrest of Rebekah Brooks, [...]

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Last week Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor maker by revenue, released its annual CSR report, a task it has completed faithfully since 2001.

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Critics of ExxonMobil will not be satisfied with anything that one of the world’s largest energy companies says or does, so the report focuses what they company has achieved versus what it said it has done in the past.

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With $700 million annual revenue from cookie sales, Girls Scouts has recently come under fire for not only failing to adequately address, but for unethically censoring critiques of the company regarding its palm oil use. The organization has claimed to have done its part by joining the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), but critics [...]

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Earlier this month, the Obama Administration under the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) launched the advisory committee on voluntary foriegn aid (ACVFA).  On that list advisors was none other than Cameron Sinclair, a person who has revolutionized the way we think and speak about people and architectural spaces, and actually acts and implements [...]

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With over 1 billion monthly searches for recipes, Google is in a prime position to influence what Americans “discover” when searching for food. The Internet search giant released a new tab next to the “Images, Videos, and Shopping choices” on their search-results screen: Recipes. This option will ultimately simplify finding professional recipe websites, but what [...]

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In 2009’s Strategy for Sustainability, Adam Werbach promoted what he called the TEN cycle (transparency, employee engagement and outside networking) as an avenue by which corporations could implement sustainability into their operations and succeed at reaching their North Star Goal. The North Star was a broad reaching, time sensitive and value-centered goal. It aligned the [...]

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Toyota is transforming their corporate philanthropy to be “by the people and for the people” with the advent of their 100 Cars for Good program. The company will donate 100 cars to charities across the United States. The winners will be determined by the voting public on a daily basis this summer, putting their philanthropy [...]

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We live in a world of choices like a fish lives in a world of water. But how do we know, which choices will have a greater or lesser impact on our poor overstressed Mother Earth? Some of them are obvious, but most are not. If only we had a little green angel sitting on our shoulder that we could ask. Okay, not likely. Then how about an iPhone app? Believe it or not, such a thing already exists. It’s called GoodGuide and it is available both on the web and as a mobile app.

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Whatever you think about WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, he is not going down–nor will he be extradited -quietly. The megalomaniac Internet activist has caused plenty of consternation, and a spike in antacid sales, for his release of US State Department cables and other confidential information that has revealed much about wars and events around the [...]

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