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Eurosif’s 2012 Procurement Report: What Investors Must Know About Sustainability Supply Chains

The report discusses supply chain management and sourcing materials from an investor’s perspective regarding environmental and labor issues in particular and their compliance with international laws, regulations and standards as mentioned above.

Investors are advised to adopt a robust supply chain au...

Beyond Growth: Green Transition Accelerating Despite Recession

Green Transition Scoreboard® 2012, the latest findings from Ethical Markets Media, reports over $3.3 trillion invested or committed in privately financed green markets, specifically tracking five sectors: Renewable Energy, Green Construction and Efficiency, Cleantech, Smart Grid and Corporate R&...

The Brutal Truth about Sustainability Reporting

Last month, Strategic Sustainability Consulting (SSC) released its sixth annual  Sustainability Report . That means we have published one report for every year that we've been in business. And once again, as cofounder and President, I was the author. Committing to write an annual Sustainability report...

Let The Rape Stop Now: Business Case for Sustainability

The constant struggle between business' social and environmental responsibility and investor demands is already an old tale. "The field has stretched and magnified so quickly that even though I have only been doing this work for three years, it feels like 10," confessed a fellow attendee at a recent...

Leaderless Global Governance

Too much global political capital nowadays is wasted on harmonizing policies that don't need it, and not enough is spent on harmonizing those that do. Over-ambitious and misdirected efforts at global governance will not serve us well at a time when global leadership and cooperation are bound to rema...

The Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy

Evergreen is a way forward for a great diversity of communities -- not merely those in inner cities -- to build resiliency and to redefine wealth through hands-on ownership of capital, a more creative and productive use of internal assets, and through shared purpose and respect for the limits of the...

The Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy

Our global economy now operates in a precarious state of social and ecological fragility, reflected in a rising wealth gap and growing ecological “overshoot” as we use up the earth’s finite resources and stress the ecosystem beyond its power to regenerate itself.  

Can CSR Help Drive an Entrepreneurial Impact Economy?

Impact investing is an emerging asset class focused on the flow of capital towards companies that align market incentives with scalable impact. In other words, investing in for-profit companies that are making the world a better place. It is a paradigm shift away from a bifurcated non-profit vs. for...