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· GreenBiz.com >
o Resources > e.g.
§ How-to
§ Reports
§ Tools
§ Organizations
§ GreenBiz Essentials
· GDRC Global Development Research Center >
o Programmes > Sustainable Business >
· CleanerProduction.com »The Gateway for Sustainable Business, Cleaner Production, and Pollution Prevention« (The site is produced by Burton Hamner) > e.g.
o Directory >
§ Tools >
· Management Systems for Cleaner Production
· Cleaner Production Assessments
· Measurement and Accounting for Cleaner Production
· Design for Cleaner Production
· Purchasing for Cleaner Production
· Public Reporting of Sustainability Performance
o CD ROM Library with more than 500 of the best non-copyright publications on how to manage and promote sustainable business, with a focus on operations management. Each resource is described.
§ »This CD is a goldmine of useful, practical resources for sustainability implementers. Burton Hamner has done the hard work of culling the best-of-the-best from thousands of worldwide public domain how-to publications on sustainable business. His annotated index makes it easy to quickly access the most relevant. This CD belongs in the library of any serious sustainability practitioner.«
· Environmental Expert > e.g.
o Technology & Equipment
o Software & Online Solutions
o Training & Education
o Services & Consulting
o Articles & Case Studies
o >
§ Browse Categories > e.g.
· Environmental Mgmt > e.g.
o Browse SubCategories > More SubCategories >
§ Strategic Env. Mgmt. / SRI / Corporate Social Responsibility
· SLM Sustainable Life Media »People, Information and Events to Help You Innovate for Sustainability, Profitably!« (Burlingame, CA, USA) > e.g.
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· IW IndustryWeek (Penton Media, Cleveland, Ohio) »Connecting Manufacturing's Leaders«
· WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development >> e.g.
o Projects/Initiatives > Water > Global Water Tool
§ See also: GreenBiz > Resource Efficiency > Water
· EPA Environmental Protection Agency (USA) >> e.g.
o General Environmental Measurement Resources
o Environmental Management Systems
· U.S. DoE (Department of Energy) >>
o Smart Communities Network > e.g.
· Tools
· ClimateBiz (Emphasis on USA) > e.g.
o Resources > e.g.
§ How-To
§ Tools
· GEMI (Global Environmental Management Initiative; USA) »is a non-profit organization of leading companies dedicated to fostering environmental, health and safety excellence and corporate citizenship worldwide.« > e.g.
o GEMI Projects > e.g.
§ Work Groups >
· Business & Climate Work Group
· EHS Information Management Systems (IMS) Work Group
· Metrics Work Group
· Sustainable Development Work Group
· Water Sustainability Work Group
· Business Incentives, Environment: Value to Business (EVTB), Environment: Value to the Top Line (EVTL), Environment: Value to the Investor (EVI), Global Climate Change, Multinational Corporations (MNC), Service Providers, Supply Chain, Transparency
o GEMI Conferences (with presentations)
o GEMI Publications > e.g.
§ GEMI Metrics Navigator
§ GEMI SD Planner and GEMI SD Gateway
§ Collecting the Drops: A Water Sustainability Planner
§ Transparency: A Path to Public Trust
§ Forging New Links: Enhancing Supply Chain Value Through Environmental Excellence
§ Clear Advantage: Building Shareholder Value / Environment: Value to the Investor
o Homepage >
§ GEMI News
§ GEMI Interactive Tools > e.g.
· GEMI Metrics Navigator
o The tool presents a thorough, six-step process to select, implement and evaluate a set of ‘critical few’ metrics that focus on an organization’s success.
· GEMI SD Planner and SD Gateway
· SD Compendium of Selected SD Tools
· Collecting the Drops: A Water Sustainability Planner
· Forging New Links Supply Chain tool & web site
· GEMI's "Business and Climate" web-based tool is designed to help companies assess the most appropriate ways to address climate change-related emission reductions and reduce energy consumption.
· GEMI's HSE Web Depot is designed to help companies utilize information technology to more effectively manage and integrate their health, safety and environmental (HSE) responsibilities.
· C4S Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College (Michigan, USA) >
o Sustainable Business (links with short descriptions) >
· CSIN Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network
· William Blackburn Consulting Inc. (Long Grove, Illinois, USA; Bill Blackburn – ex Baxter International Inc., Chief of Corporate EHS) »Providing clients with 30 years of professional experience on the leading edge of environment, health and safety management, sustainable development and emergency response.« >
o Publications / Presentations > e.g.
§ The Sustainability Handbook - The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility (to order; February 2007)
§ Creating the Sustainable Company: How to Transform Your Organization (.pdf, 36 pp.)
· IIT Stuart Graduate School of Business (24 May 2005)
§ Sustainability Programs at a Large Corporation: Some Practical Strategies (.pdf, 21 pp., 9 November 2004)
· Natural Logic (Berkeley, CA, USA) > e.g.
o Services >
§ Feedback: Reading the Signs >
· Interactive Dashboards: Deploy key performance indicator (KPI) systems that streamlines the collection, analysis, and reporting of environmental performance data -- dashboards that track and drive performance. >
· S-BAR »Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings«
o Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings (S-BAR) is the first comprehensive system with a market-based, broadly applicable, and transparent means of assessing a company’s environmental, economic and social performance.
o S-BAR creates a clear and condensed standards framework that incorporates and builds on lessons learned and systems created over the past two decades by hundreds of nonprofit organizations, trade associations, investment and academic institutions, and government agencies.
o The S-BAR Certification Tool will use a structured set of criteria that covers the full range of social and environmental practices. The process will take place online, reducing paperwork, time, and costs and will allow for instantaneous feedback.
· As a B Corporation you differentiate your business from the growing barrage of green- and cause-marketing campaigns and stand out as a leader in the market, creating a clear path for others to follow. B Corporations™ are a new type of corporation that are purpose-driven and create benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. > e.g.
o B Tools
o Survey
§ The B Ratings System is open to everybody whether or not you'd like to become a B Corporation. It's a useful management tool 1) to assess your company's impact on each of its stakeholders and 2) to improve your social and environmental performance using our Tools and Best Practices embedded in the Survey.
o See also:
§ related article at SocialFunds: B Corporations: Verified Sustainability (13 March 2008) - B Labs takes the guesswork out of which companies are actually working for the future.
· SVN Social Venture Network (Based in San Francisco, California, USA)
o Resources >
· Government of Canada >>
o Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada >> Trade Negotiations and Agreements (TNA) > Trade Topics > Development and Society > Corporate Social Responsibility >
§ Why CSR Matters for Canadian companies active internationally >
· International CSR Tools
o Industry Canada >> Programs and Services > By Subject > Sustainability and Environment >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility
· CSR Tools >
o Indicators, Measurements, Reporting and Benchmarking
· Supportive Information and Links >
o Corporate Social Responsibility: An implementation Guide for Canadian Business
§ last version: 2006 (??)
§ html version and .pdf version (98 pp.)
§ Eco-efficiency >
§ Other Resources > Building Sustainable Enterprises
· »Workshop held in 2004 whose materials remain applicable to businesses interested in eco-efficiency measures.«
· NRTEE National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) > e.g.
o Program List > Past Programs > Capital Markets & Sustainability > e.g.
§ Publications > e.g.
· Measuring What Counts (March 2006)
o Establishing a best practice approach for the management, valuation and performance measurement of corporate contributions to the sustainability of Canadian communities
o Program List >
· Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada) >
o Faculty of Management >
o Five Winds International was founded in 1998 on the knowledge that when you understand the forces shaping your business, you can harness them and use them to your significant advantage.
o Since then, we've grown from a small environmental-management consultancy to a multidisciplinary firm serving clients in North America, Europe and Asia.
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· Strandberg Consulting (Canada; Principal: Coro Strandberg) > e.g.
o Events & Publications >
§ Publications & Tools
· Deloitte Canada > e.g.
o Insights & Ideas > Business issues > Corporate responsibility >>
§ Measuring and managing your corporate responsibility strategy - The business approach to non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs)
· Federation of Canadian Municipalities (also French version of website) > e.g.
o Sustainable Communities > e.g.
§ Tools > e.g.
· CEAA Canadian Environmental Auditing Association
· Stratos »is Canada’s leading sustainability consultancy« > e.g.
o Management > Portfolio >
§ Stratos Sustainability Integration Report (July 2007)
· How do leading companies integrate sustainability into their business processes, such as strategic planning, business development, project management, community relations and employee recruitment and orientation?
· Through in-depth interviews with international and Canadian companies, Stratos, with support from Industry Canada, explores how a sample of leading companies are integrating sustainability into their business processes.
· The results of this study demonstrate the range of processes and tools which can be used or adapted by other companies interested in further integration – at the corporate, divisional and operational levels.
§ Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Business Objectives (March 2007)
· Presentation to the Conference Board of Canada National CSR Conference
§ Management Systems for CR Frameworks for Assessing & Managing Non-Financial Performance (October 2004)
· Presentation to CEAA 2004
§ Metrics for Corporate Responsibility - Toward Integrated Performance Measures (June 2003)
· Presentation to Corporate Knights Conference - Driving Return on Responsibility
· CBSR Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (Canada) >
o Climate Change Guide (.pdf, November 2007, 84 pp.)
§ is answering a corporate need within Canada to provide a functional, step-by-step manual to responsibilities, opportunities and risks regarding climate change to equip practitioners as we head into a new era of corporate accountability.
· Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) > National Centre for Sustainability > e.g.
o Resource Bank (Many links) > e.g.
§ Sustainability Aspect Advanced Search > e.g.
· HK (Hong Kong) BEC Business Environment Council (WBCSD Regional Partner) > also
o Focuses and Services >
§ Corporate Responsibility >
· Business Guide to Sustainable Development
· EEA European Environment Agency > e.g.
o About EEA > Networks >
§ EnviroWindows - EEA platform for knowledge sharing and development > also
· Information access tools >
o Sustainable Development Online
§ Tools (many subcategories)
· erScp »European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production«
o »is a non-profit organisation that provides a platform to stimulate, develop and disseminate new initiatives to foster implementation of CP concepts and approaches within local and regional sustainable development initiatives.«
§ Many (over 100) presentations downloadable
§ > e.g.
· The 11th erScp, 20-22 June 2007, Basel, Switzerland
· The 10th erScp, 5-7 October 2005, Antwerp, Belgium
· The 9th erScp, 12-14 May 2004, Bilbao, Spain
· The first erScp was held in Graz in 1994. Following annual Roundtables were held in Rotterdam, Kalundborg, Oslo, Lisbon, Budapest, Lund and Cork.
· The Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange network (SCORE!) (2005-2008)
o »was set up to bundle SCP research expertise, in the EU and beyond.«
o The Network project SCORE! acts as one of the EU`s central support structures for the UN`s 10 Year Framework of Programs for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). In a series of workshops and conferences we analyse the state of the art in SCP research, and promote cases of (radical) sustainable consumption for mobility, agro-food and energy use.
· EnviroWise delivers a valuable government-funded programme of free, confidential advice to UK businesses. This assistance enables companies to increase profitability and reduce environmental impact. > e.g.