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Executives at many companies have found that no matter how invested the c-suite is in sustainability initiatives, a business must engage and inspire its employees from the ground up in order to succeed in improving its environmental impact. The Human Resources section explores ways that companies are bringing employees on board to make sustainability work for the long term.
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EarthShare describes how companies can leverage volunteer programs into a win for impacted communities, their employees and their own balance sheets....
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How can you get more employees engaged in sustainability and other goals? Here are four strategies, including a bigger commitment to social responsibility.
It's not that HR professionals don't care about sustainability -- it's that they think they're already doing the work.
Do you ask your employees for their thoughts on how your sustainability efforts are working? If not, you're not alone: We conducted a recent survey to see how companies leverage their...
For the first time, women make up 10 percent of global corporate boards, according to GovernanceMetrics International's annual Women on Boards report.
There's been an evolution in sustainability consulting in the past decade as major players moved in to help major clients embrace sustainability. But will demand for those services continue?...
Even when corporate sustainability practictioners adopt business speak -- think of terms like "triple-bottom line" -- it can come across as fuzzy. Perhaps it's time to go back......
Computer and monitor manufacturers now have to meet social-responsibility criteria -- not just environmental and performance requirements -- to get that coveted "TCO Certified" label....
The final lesson in our four-part series on navigating the intersection of policy and business explores how who you work with is as critical to policy successes as the platforms you advocate.
Apple's China scandal demonstrates why companies need to do more to ensure the health of factory workers making their products. Here's how some manufacturers are netting returns from......
The retail giant takes a stand on sandblasting denim, which can harm garment workers' lungs.
There's much talk of employee engagement, but relatively little understanding about what it takes to hone staff talent and passion to really make sustainability take hold in companies....
The final installment of a seven-week series on how sustainability professionals can make change from within the enterprise explores the hardest part of the journey up Mt. Sustainability.
Although you've built a policy team with deep business smarts and innovation savvy, you're still going to have the right marketing strategy to make an impact with policymakers.
Brendan LeBlanc, the executive director of Climate Change and Sustainability Services at Ernst & Young, talks about how companies are quickly incorporating sustainability into their financial...
Ford Motor Company's manager of Social Sustainability explains why his work has expanded beyond not just environmental issues, but to reach out far beyond the company's own factories and...
From moving beyond compliance to engaging employees at every level, there are standard obstacles that companies face in getting up to speed on sustainability efforts.
At Social Media Week in New York City, two recently sprouted startups joined two innovative established companies to talk about how to harness the power of gaming for the greater good.
John Hellweg, recently retired from General Mills, shares the effort it took to complete a nearly 25-year-long process to turn a waste stream into a fuel source.
The gaming giant's latest look at its sustainability work highlights its energy-efficiency projects, emissions reductions targets and how it has recovered for reuse more than 100,000 pounds of...
Juliet Schor, the author of a new book on overwork, talks about how we can work fewer hours, buy fewer things, enjoy life more, help save the earth and even drive down today's stubbornly high...
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