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Hospitality giant reveals how staff training and carbon bonuses are helping to cut energy use and slash emissions.
by James Murray
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Businesses are increasingly approaching the challenge of developing a sustainable economy as a challenge of innovation. While this is a more productive approach, it's not without its own set of obstacles.
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2012 is not going to be easy. But these apps will help you navigate the likely turbulence of the next 12 months.
by Sally Uren
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As the holiday season picks up steam (or not, depending on your beliefs), it's worth a look at how employees from immeasurably diverse cultures -- corporate and personal -- can all come together around environmental sustainability.
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Getting everyone on board with your company's sustainability efforts is the single most important factor for its eventual succes. Here's how companies large and small are making it work.
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Is the job of a CSO to put herself or himself out of a job? That used to be a hotly debated subject in the profession, but as the world of corporate sustainability evolves, the job duties themselves get much more interesting.
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Deloitte and SAP are among the companies that are harnessing the power of gaming to engage employees on sustainability.
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With a growing wave of baby boomers beginning to retire, strategic succession planning is quickly becoming a core issue for companies that want to pass on the expertise of senior staff.
by Mark Coleman
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As companies step up their efforts to crack the business opportunities from sustainability, it's becoming clear that the only path to success is to go beyond familiar territory and do more to engage mainstream audiences.
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Louise Raymond, the VP of corporate responsibility and at the publishing giant, reflects on how the last 10 years have shifted the company's thinking on sustainability, and what the next 10 will bring.
by Ann Goodman
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Despite the dishearteningly sluggish economy, there are plenty of ways for job seekers to break in to the green economy. And the author of a new book about finding a good green job has plenty of advice for navigating that path.
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Like any other pioneer, life as a chief sustainability officer requires constantly charting new territories, and all the hard work and courage that goes along with it. Here are some of the skills that top CSOs share.
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The clothing manufacturer's head of sustainability talks about the rules of engagement for weaving environmental initiatives throughout a recently restructured century-old brand.
by Ann Goodman
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Jed Davis, the sustainability director at the cooperative of 1,200 dairy farms, talks about quality control, energy efficiency, the vision of employee engagement, and what sustainability means on the farm.
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The biotech firm found an unlikely way to significantly cut its costs, while at the same time provide a valuable perk for employees that also reduces emissions.
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Although our just-published GreenBiz Salary Survey shows how sustainability can be a career -- but we still need to debunk a number of misconceptions about just what a sustainability professional's job entails.
by John Davies
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The second annual GreenBiz Salary Survey tracks more than just how much sustainability leaders at large corporations are paid; the study finds steady growth in attention to, and resources for, sustainability professionals.
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Bainbridge Graduate Institute new one-year certificate programs target the energy, green building and food and agriculture markets.
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As more and more companies embed their CSR practices in day-to-day operations, it becomes an opportunity for HR managers to become sustainability leaders. This checklist spells out what HR departments should and should do to promote sustainability.
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Disrupting the status quo is difficult -- but not impossible -- from within large corporations. In working to build strong, responsible companies at the bottom of the period, Blue Earth Network has gathered the following lessons that could work for anyone.
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Walmart's Personal Sustainability Project program inspired "Green the Team," a new guide on employee engagement from BBMG.
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The head of the world's largest office furniture supplier talks about challenges in making non-toxic furniture, end of life options for the 'Think Chair,' and his vision for increasingly virtual, mobile work places.
by Heather King
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Enablon launched the public beta version of Wizness at the BSR Conference 2011 in San Francisco Wednesday to help organizations collaborate in the name of sustainability.
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During the opening keynote to the three-day conference in Portland, Oregon, Lord Hastings avowed that the single most effective way to change the world is overcoming cynicism -- not a product or a business mode, but an attitude.
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Gamification is a huge trend in marketing almost any kind of product or service today, and is only going to get bigger and more commonplace. And some innovative companies are already putting the power of game mechanices to work for sustainability.
by Ashok Kamal