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Corporate Responsibility

Three Reasons Why Aggressive Trademark Protection Hurts Sustainability

Trademark controversy has been all over the place lately. The case that’s making the rounds most recently is over the […]

jennifer boynton

April 7, 2011

Finance

Evil Corporations: Shareholders Pull Strings for Sustainability

By Derrick Mains, Principal of Your3BL Advisors and Host of Your3BL Radio We all know that there is a rising […]

TriplePundit

April 7, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Q&A on California's Proposed "Flexible Purpose Corporation"

Yesterday, the California Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions met to review SB201- a bill that would create a […]

TriplePundit

April 7, 2011

Finance

Taking the Entrepreneurial Plunge: Stories from the Social Venture Field

By Sara Herald One of the sessions at the Social Enterprise Symposium held at the University of Maryland last Thursday […]

Maryland

April 7, 2011

Finance

Find a Career that Gives You Passion in Six Easy Steps

By Zachary Olson Everyone’s been lured into those seminars that are supposed to teach you THE SECRET to something, like […]

Maryland

April 7, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Is Monsanto Being Mowed Down by its Own Combine?

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

April 7, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Four Effective Ways that Your Company Can "Go Green"

By Lorna Li There’s a dualism when it comes to adaptability in business. On the one hand, you must be […]

TriplePundit

April 7, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

The Green Room: BBMG's Mitch Baranowski & Ron J. Williams of SnapGoods

http://vimeo.com/21905950 In the third episode of BBMG’s Green Room, chief creative officer Mitch Baranowski chats with SnapGoods co-founder and CEO […]

bbmg

April 6, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Pencils Give New Life to Old Fridges – Good Idea?

Next time you sharpen a pencil, consider whether those shavings came from a sustainable source. French manufacturer BIC has considered […]

Phil Covington

April 6, 2011

Finance

Confessions of a Climate Capitalist: 5 Lessons for Green Entrepreneurs

By Boyd Cohen, Ph.D.  CO2 IMPACT I have been writing a weekly post in Triple Pundit since December 2010 about […]

boyd

April 6, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Apple and Intel Cease Use of Conflict Minerals

With global demand for electronics surging – especially for tablet computers like Apple’s iPad – these gadgets’ sophistication and long […]

Leon Kaye

April 6, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Does One Green Plane Make an Airline Sustainable?

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

April 6, 2011

Finance

Growing Profit by Protecting Forests

Trees and forests are an important part of our ecosystem.  They also play a vital role as a part of […]

Jonathan Mariano

April 6, 2011

Finance

Water For People: Innovative Solutions for Global Water Scarcity

By Ned Breslin Millions of dollars are wasted every year on thousands of water projects around the world that break, […]

TriplePundit

April 6, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

CSR Strategy at Panasonic: Business Growth Linked with Environmental Protection

This content is provided by our partners at the Ethical Business Corporation in anticipation of the upcoming Responsible Business Summit […]

TriplePundit

April 6, 2011

Finance

What Makes A (Social) Entrepreneur?

By Mike Levitsky Simply seeing the panel “Social Entrepreneurs: Stories from the Field” at the UMDs Social Enterprise Symposium recently, […]

Maryland

April 6, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

New Legislation Brings Free E-Waste Recycling to New Yorkers

The Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act, signed into law last year, went into effect in New York on April […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

April 5, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Green Marketing: Going Beyond the Product to Target Behavior Change

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

April 5, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

HP Shows Companies How to Integrate Energy Management and Carbon Reduction

Why can’t big companies do a better job of managing the way they use energy and natural resources? In many […]

Kathy Siranosian

April 5, 2011

Finance

Calling All Female Would-Be Entrepreneurs

By Sara Herald Although rates of entrepreneurship among women in the United States have been growing steadily, 60% of new […]

Maryland

April 5, 2011

Finance

Energy Efficiency at Genzyme

By Eva Zlotnicka, 2010 Climate Corps fellow at Genzyme, Joint degree MBA/MESc candidate at Yale School of Management and Yale […]

TriplePundit

April 5, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Cleantech VC’s ask: Who will be the SunRun of Home Energy Efficiency?

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

April 5, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Gone Daddy: An Elephant of a Problem

An open question: How much of a jerk does a CEO have to be in their personal life before customers […]

Nick Aster

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Do Large Companies Have an Unfair CSR Advantage?

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and […]

CSRHub

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Ektorp! IKEA Launches Sustainability Scorecard

IKEA introduced a Sustainability Product Scorecard last year, according to the company’s recently released 2010 sustainability report. The Scorecard classifies […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Investing in Women’s Economic Opportunities at ExxonMobil: Lorie Jackson

While I was attending the Women in the World Stories + Solutions summit in New York on March 10-12, I […]

Andrea Newell

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Their Worldview, Your Vision: The Secret to Behavior Change

By John Marshall Roberts Observable behavior is always just a symptom of something larger and  unseen. Trying to understand someone’s behavior […]

TriplePundit

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

The Power of "Why" in Marketing

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Power to the People: Mobile Banking in Developing Countries

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Clean Tech Public-Private Partnership or Collusion?

Let’s start off with a general scenario that happens almost every election cycle:  A corporate leader holds fundraisers for a […]

Jonathan Mariano

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Plastic Bags or Reusables? Depends Where You Draw the Line

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

April 4, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

A Call for Tougher Regulations on Predatory Lending

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

April 2, 2011

Finance

Keeping Things Local: Local Currency Could Benefit San Francisco

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

April 2, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Venture Funding for Cleantech SMEs in Developing Nations

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

April 2, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Children's Playtime Powers Cafeteria Microwave

April fool 2011 🙂 In an announcement that sent waves through the scientific community yesterday, researchers at the University of […]

jennifer boynton

April 1, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Drill, Obama, Drill: Administration Advocates for Expanded Domestic Drilling

President Obama gave a speech yesterday, on a plan to cut oil imports.   While at first, it may sound like […]

Jonathan Mariano

March 31, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Bangladesh Government Removes Mohammed Yunus As Grameen Bank Head

Earlier this month the Bangladesh government removed Mohammed Yunus as the head of the microfinance lender, Grameen Bank. Yunus founded […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 31, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Pioneering Sustainable Initiatives in Hospitals; Reform on Our Side?

By Julie Graham We are now well on our way to sweeping changes in American Healthcare.   March 23rd marked the […]

TriplePundit

March 31, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Study Calls Polystyrene Environmentally Preferable to Corn Based Plastic

A recently released study compared the life-cycle inventory and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of polystyrene (PS), paperboard, and corn-based (polylactic: […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 31, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Fast, Cost-Effective Tool to Compile CSR Reports

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) insists that the world’s leading companies not only embrace sustainability reporting, but move towards integrated […]

Leon Kaye

March 31, 2011

Finance

Toxins Impact on Fertility Rise on Agendas

The American Fertility Association (AFA) joins the ranks of numerous organizations that are attributing infertility to environmental toxins in some […]

Tiffany Finley

March 31, 2011

Finance

U.S. NGOs that Are Moving the Needle on Climate Change

The past few weeks I have been openly critical of Earth Hour (from WWF) and even 350.org because I believe […]

boyd

March 31, 2011

Finance

Are NGOs Like 350.org and WWF Failing to Move the Needle?

Boyd Cohen, Ph.D., CO2 IMPACT A few weeks ago I was pretty critical of the potential impact of events like […]

boyd

March 30, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Dawn’s Attempt to Market Sustainability Ruffles Feathers

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

March 30, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Seven Companies Opt Out of Sustainable Forestry Initiative Label

Seven companies, including four from the Fortune 500, committed to not using Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s (SFI) label on paper products […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 30, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Bar-Hopping Inside Whole Foods?

As if Whole Foods didn’t already have a vice grip on wandering shoppers, they have now added an in-store bar […]

Tiffany Finley

March 30, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Video Interview: American Forest and Paper Association

Large companies like Walmart can truly move the needle when they declare sustainability.  But even more impactful changes can be […]

Connie-Kwan

March 30, 2011

Finance

Hydropower Expansion: The Hydropower Improvement Act of 2011

On March 17, 2011, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), introduced bipartisan legislation to accelerate hydropower projects and development across the country.  […]

Denver

March 30, 2011

Finance

Udall Wants Credit Unions to Lend More to Small Business

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

March 30, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Sex, Lies and the Electric Car: The BMWi

The following is part of the Crowds of Ratings series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering […]

CSRHub

March 29, 2011

Finance

Communicating With Your Blinders Off

by Donna Montgomery, Ph. D. In working with hundreds of clients & students over several decades, it never ceases to […]

TriplePundit

March 29, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Positive Change, One Flip-Flop at a Time

By Alison I. Somilleda Feelgoodz™, an environmentally and socially conscious flip-flop company based in New Orleans, LA, is redefining the […]

GreenChamber

March 29, 2011

Finance

Growing Profits in Marshes; Can Foundations Help Spur Mitigation Banking Markets?

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

March 29, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Secrets of Getting a (Green) Job

Many of us at one point in time have been looking for a job.  Readers of this site may be […]

Jonathan Mariano

March 29, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Whole Foods Announces Traveling Film Festival to Celebrate Earth Month

In celebration of Earth Month, Whole Foods announced last week that they will be presenting a traveling Do Something Reel […]

Kara DiCamillo

March 29, 2011

Finance

Transparency: Promoting or Diminishing Competitive Advantage?

In 2009’s Strategy for Sustainability, Adam Werbach promoted what he called the TEN cycle (transparency, employee engagement and outside networking) […]

Leslie Back

March 28, 2011

Finance

Sustainability's Influence on Stock Value

Political discourse over sustainability, in the USA, always seems to debate this single notion: that implementing sustainability initiatives – whether […]

Phil Covington

March 28, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

HP Wins Best Report in CR Reporting Awards 2011

HP won best report in the fourth annual Corporate Responsibility Reporting Awards 2011 (CRRA 2011) for its 2009 report, Changing […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 28, 2011

Finance

Woman-to-Woman Aid through Microfinance

The number of women within lending institution’s higher management has decreased over the past eight years, while the number of […]

Tiffany Finley

March 28, 2011

Finance

Don’t Know Your Audience? Cover Their Values

by Donna Montgomery, Ph. D. We’re often told by the experts that the first rule of engagement is this: Know […]

TriplePundit

March 28, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Sustainability at Outward Bound

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana […]

TriplePundit

March 28, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

SXSW: Techies Can Save the World. Why Aren't They?

I’ve had a little bit to say about South by Southwest not being as focused on sustainability as it could […]

Nick Aster

March 26, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Does Earth Hour Truly Benefit the Environment?

Earth Hour will be taking place this Saturday, March 26th, between 8:30-9:30pm local time.  Call it an initiative, campaign, or […]

Jonathan Mariano

March 25, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Walmart Leaps into Regulation Hole on PBDE

This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can […]

Presidio Managerial Marketing

March 25, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Control Sprinkler Systems Remotely? There’s an App for That

What can’t a smart phone do these days? They can unlock cars, hook up to home security systems, turn off […]

Tiffany Finley

March 25, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

The Case For Extending the EV Tax Credit

The following open letter is a part of the Presidio Graduate School’s Capital Markets course. For one of the course […]

Presidio Capital Markets

March 25, 2011

Finance

What's Really 'Green'? A Look at Mattresses, Part II

By Jonathan L. Gelbard, Ph.D. In my previous post, I took a look at examples of greenwashing that just about […]

TriplePundit

March 25, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

The Green Room: BBMG's Mitch Baranowski with Warby Parker's Neil Blumenthal

http://vimeo.com/21359479 In the second episode of BBMG’s Green Room, chief creative officer Mitch Baranowski sits down with Neil Blumenthal, co-founder […]

bbmg

March 24, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Disney Invests $15.5 Million in Carbon Offsets

This week The Walt Disney Company released its 2010 Corporate Citizenship (or corporate social responsibility) report.  The report is an […]

Leon Kaye

March 24, 2011

Finance

Lack of GHG Regulation Leadership Leads to Multi State Lawsuit

The American Electric Power Co. Inc (AEP) is facing a lawsuit from six states and the City of New York […]

Tiffany Finley

March 24, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Guayaki Yerba Mate to Market Only with Social Media

Social media now provides a basic means of communicating with friends.  It has even taken deep root in the way […]

Jonathan Mariano

March 24, 2011

Corporate Responsibility

Is Wireless The Future For EV Charging?

Imagine a future where you drive your electric car to work, park, get out and walk away, and your car […]

Phil Covington

March 24, 2011