Sep 29 2010
Sabre Holdings recently commissioned a report (published in July 2010), on employee “green teams” in an attempt to understand what makes these teams effective. A lot has been written about best practices in this area but this report (“Generating Sustainable Value: Moving Beyond Green Teams to Transformation Collaboratives“) provides an excellent summary of the four [...]
Apr 13 2010
I finished reading Adam Werbach’s “Strategy for Sustainability” a couple of months ago. As with many other books about developing sustainability strategies (e.g. “Green to Gold” by Andrew Winston and Daniel Esty or “The Next Sustainability Wave” by Bob Willard), this one introduces Werbach’s framework for crafting a corporate sustainability strategy. It includes his concept [...]
Oct 23 2009
Results of a poll released today by BSR.org show that climate change tops the list of priorities for CSR (corporate social responsibility) executives. 41% of executives polled at this week’s BSR conference in San Francisco rated climate change a “5″ in priority on a scale of 1 to 5. Other sustainability issues that topped the [...]