Deborah Fleischer

Deborah Fleischer is president of Green Impact, a strategic environmental consulting practice that helps companies engage employees, strengthen their relationships with stakeholders, develop profitable green initiatives and communicate their successes and challenges.

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Charting the Future of Green Teams
By Deborah Fleischer, October 28, 2011
It's starting to look like the days of stand-alone, grass-roots voluntary green teams are over. Instead, get ready for the rise of Green Teams 3.0....
3 Sustainability Lessons from the Ceres Conference
By Deborah Fleischer, May 17, 2011
Among the many announcements during the recent Ceres Conference were the awards for best sustainability reports. While the awards alone might not be big news, the story behind them reveals some......
How UC San Francisco Leads the Way on Green Laboratories
By Deborah Fleischer, March 18, 2011
Despite the boom in green buildings, finding highly technical spaces like research laboratories designed with sustainability in mind is still a rare occurrence. UCSF, however, bucks that trend......
Trends and Tips from Three Green Business Thought Leaders
By Deborah Fleischer, February 07, 2011
From employee engagement to CSR reporting to starting a corporate sustainability program, the State of Green Business Forum dug in deep to a number of key topics in the business world....
Wells Fargo's 5 Best Practices for Engaging Your Green Teams
By Deborah Fleischer, January 10, 2011
The banking giant has undertaken a number of projects to get all 278,000 of its employees on board with the company's sustainability goals. Here are five tips any company can benefit from....
Four Tips for Writing a Winning CSR Report
By Deborah Fleischer, November 30, 2010
Thinking of writing your first sustainability report? Or want to take yours to the next level? Here is a solid checklist of issues to take into consideration if you are about to embark on a......
If You're Going to Be Naked, You'd Better Be Buff: Radical Transparency in Green Marketing
By Deborah Fleischer, February 08, 2010
At the State of Green Business Forum last week in San Francisco, a panel of industry experts explored how radical transparency -- whether driven by companies themselves or their customers -- is......
10 Best Practices for Building Green Teams
By Deborah Fleischer, December 07, 2009
GreenBiz.com and Green Impact have partnered to release a new report, "Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability," that includes 10 tips on how to support and guide Green Teams......
So You're the New Sustainability Director: Now What?
By Deborah Fleischer, June 23, 2009
Now that you've built the business case for going green in your company's operations, here are eight tips for getting started....
Why Being a Green Laggard is Bad for Business
By Deborah Fleischer, June 02, 2009
Although there are plenty of leaders in the green business movement, there are just as many, if not more, laggards slow to the game. Here are three bottom-line reasons for integrating......