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Shell CEO Calls for Carbon Pricing; Environmentalists Say Devil Is in the...
Royal Dutch Shell PLC CEO Ben van Beurden promoted a carbon-pricing plan at the Oil & Money conference in London on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reports that the plan will encourage investment...
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7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sweden’s Forest Economy
Sweden is so heavily forested that open areas are the exception.It’s the opposite of continental Europe, where Germany’s well-known Black Forest or France’s Bois Des Landes are deviations in the...
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First Round of Plenaries at #NewMetrics '15 Tackles ROI, Reporting, Multiple...
The main-stage program of New Metrics ’15 kicked off Wednesday with a simple, yet powerful reminder: This set of conversations is all about upside potential, smarter risk management and long-term...
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#NewMetrics '15: New Tools for Creating Positive Impact in Your Company's 401(k)
The divestment/investment movement calls on institutional, family, and individual investors to hold themselves accountable for the impacts of financial investments. By moving their money, individuals...
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#NewMetrics '15: The #BusinessCase for Gender Equality in Leadership
“No country can get ahead if it leaves what amounts to half the population behind.”This quote from the McKinsey report, Economic Benefit of Gender Equality, provided a soft opening to a session focused...
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Money Talks – the Dark Secret of the Sustainability Event Circuit
“...almost all fortunes are made out of the capital and labour of other men than those who realise them.” - Lysander SpoonerDo you have to pay to play?If you are a sustainability practitioner and...
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Brands Must Scale Up Diversity – and Fast – If They Want to Remain Relevant
“Women challenge the status quo because we never are it.”Addressing a (thankfully) diverse audience of sustainability professionals in London, UK, last month at an event hosted by The Crowd, Cindy...
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#NewMetrics '15: Willard, Gowdy Present the Holy Grail of Managing...
“As a business community we are making progress, but not enough, and not fast enough. Perhaps this stake in the sand will increase urgency around this.” — Bob Willard, on the Future-Fit Business...
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#NewMetrics '15: WWF, CDP, Trucost Present Tools for Staying Afloat in Water...
How do you make a problem you can’t see important? This is a big theme across all the breakouts at New Metrics ’15 this week — the importance of finding the accurate and appropriate measurement tools...
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Farm-to-Air Fresh: JetBlue, TERRA Launch Blue Potato Farm at JFK Terminal 5
JetBlue Airways and TERRA® Real Vegetable Chips today revealed the T5 Farm – a blue potato farm and produce garden at Terminal 5 (T5) at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. An experiment...
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#New Metrics ’15: Aiming for Net Positive? We’re Talking ‘Gross Net Positive’
Clearly, with an exploding population, rapidly accelerating fossil fuel-based consumption and climate catastrophe all looming, the current “net negative” state – whereby we extract more than we return...
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#New Metrics '15: How to Calculate SROI for Traditionally Overlooked Social...
While quantifying and valuing the true costs and benefits of environmental impacts has matured, doing the same for social impacts remains elusive.On Tuesday, during a series of in-depth workshops...
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U.S. Renewable Energy Rises to Historic Levels While Coal Use Sags
U.S. reliance on wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy has reached historic levels and is poised to make even greater gains in the near future, according to new report by the Natural...
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#NewMetrics '15: A Deep Dive Into the Multiple ROI of Well-Run Corporate CSR...
As representatives from Walt Disney, Lockheed Martin and Campbell’s Soup attested on Wednesday morning at New Metrics ’15, well-run corporate sustainability programs bring multiple benefits, including...
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New Metrics '15: Everything You Need to Succeed at Sustainability Investing,...
The final morning’s plenaries at New Metrics ‘15 started with a warm welcome and call from MC Paul Herman of HIP Investor to be energized and ready to focus in on sustainability investing.Herman...
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Measure Twice, Cut Once: 5 Key Takeaways from the Closing Plenaries at...
Sustainability has long been seen as a soft issue — or at least too complex an issue to apply metrics. That is yesterday’s thinking as reaffirmed by all the speakers this week at New Metrics ’15. On...
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Loliware’s Edible Drinkware Attracts $600K Deal on ‘Shark Tank’
Frustrated by the amount of disposable packaging discarded at events and the amount of time it takes for disposable cups (including biobased plastics) to degrade, Chelsea Briganti and Leigh Ann Tucker...
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Community Hiring: The Labour Market Advantage Is in Your Own Backyard
The world’s most innovative leaders know that social businesses are more profitable businessesConsumers around the world, from Vancouver and Toronto to Shanghai and New York, believe that a company’s...
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Report: Hotel ‘Greenwashing’ is Off-Putting to Customers
Greenwashing practices, combined with claims of corporate social responsibility, have reduced the trust of U.S. consumers who are increasingly recognizing hotels’ green claims may be self-serving,...
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Novozymes Encouraging Companies to Seize Opportunities Presented by SDGs
Representatives of 193 countries met at the United Nations’ annual summit last month to agree on a global agenda for continued growth made up of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs tackle...
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