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By Kyle Cahill / Environmental Defense Fund
Leading companies know it: “Business as usual” is changing. Customers, consumers and shareholders often want companies to address social and environmental concerns. At the same time, man...
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By Matt Kistler | Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart believes that being an efficient and profitable business can go hand-in-hand with being a good steward of the environment. Its mission hasn't changed: helping more than 176 million shoppers...
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By L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions
Sir Nicholas Stern and Bill Clinton both have it right. Global climate change has been our greatest market failure. Now it's our greatest market opportunity. Capturing this will require investment, ...
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By Peter Capozuca, Kathryn Pavlovsky, and Michael Daher | Deloitte
Sustainability is increasingly influencing brand image and perception of consumer product companies. According to a study by Information Resources, Inc., about 50 percent of consumers consider at le...
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By Doug Gatlin | U.S. Green Building Council
Sustainability is fast becoming accepted as a mainstream ideal in our society. 2007 was marked by a series of bellwether events: corporate America challenging our nation's political leadership to ta...
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By Chris Deri | Edelman
Edelman and its research partners, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Net Impact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), recently assessed the market in ord...
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By Richard M. Gittleman / Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
“When Is Cap and Trade Effective? In the EPA’s experience, cap and trade programs have proven highly successful in the context for which they are best suited: reducing emissions on a...
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By Anthony Campanelli / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Corporate sustainability and greening efforts have been gaining attention as Americans become more committed to helping protect the environment. As consumers, we are encouraged to purchase green produ...
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By Nancy Wertheim / Deloitte Tax LLP
When the subject turns to environmental issues in a retail setting, discussion typically goes either to doing the politically correct thing (such as, saving trees or eliminating plastic shopping bags)...
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By Andrew Winston | Co-Author of "Green to Gold"
"Oil Hits $100, Jolting Markets."
On Jan. 3, 2008, this headline blared across the front page of the Wall Street Journal. What a roller coaster of energy prices we’ve been on since. After ri...
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By Bill Birchard / Author
For what is a company accountable? The answer to that has grown bigger with every passing decade because companies have become accountable for more than reporting satisfactory performance. They h...
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By Peter Breitstone |Aon Environmental Services Group
The Drive for sustainable performance has put pressure on executives to disclose more about the interactions between their corporations and their stakeholders. For risk managers, sustainability presen...
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By Bob Willard | The Sustainability Advantage
Companies embracing sustainability strategies can grow their "icebergs of value" above and below the waterline. They can mitigate impending risks and capture profitable opportunities.
What does a com...
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By Rese Fox / Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Many companies are taking the plunge and deciding to build green LEED-certified buildings (LEED is the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green buil...
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By Doug Gatlin / U.S. Green Building Council
Evidence that green buildings do not have to cost a penny more than their conventional counterparts continue to pile up, as do the studies that validate significant ongoing operational cost savings ...
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By Paul von Paumgartten / Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments
The new construction of high-performance green buildings gets the lion’s share of attention in the United States when building experts discuss building trends, solutions for climate change and...
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By Mark Layton and Eric Hespenheide / Deloitte & Touche LLP
Risk intelligent executives know that both threats and opportunities will present themselves in this new era of corporate responsibility and sustainability (CR&S). These business leaders realize tha...
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By John Spurway | Atlantic Hydrogen Inc.
Atlantic Hydrogen Inc. (AHI) began with an idea. The company's founders saw an opportunity to develop a technology that, with the right combination of science and entrepreneurship, could make a sign...
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By David Linich, Deloitte Consulting
With a focus on reliability, dependability and sustainability, the U.S. Postal Service strives to be the hallmark of reliable delivery of our nation’s most important communications. Facing an er...
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Richard Kidd is the Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), an initiative that facilitates the federal government’s implementation of ...
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By Savitha Sagar and Sharon Chae, Deloitte Consulting
The United States government faces an urgent need to become the nation’s environmental steward and leading innovator in sustainable solutions. Perhaps more than any other federal agency, the Gen...
