At the State of Green Businesss Forum today, I was inspired by the enthusiasm and accomplishments of Alexis Ringwald, currently of Serious Materials, but also a real business citizen of the world.  There were two excellent riffs on the themes of recycling and reuse, by Lisa Gansky and Rupesh Shah, and more from Rupesh on [...]

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We’ve identified the six biggest blunders companies make in communicating their environmental sustainability efforts and impacts – in other words how they “step on the hoe” in talking about how green they are.  The first and most egregious of these blunders is a lack of substance to back up claims. A study conducted in April [...]

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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 [...]

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