Category: Business Case
Restoring the Ganges River: An Enormous Business Opportunity
By Benedict Paramanand, editor, SustainabilityNextOn August 15, India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi gave an Independence Day speech that broke from tradition—it used “Clean India” as a slogan. Modi’s dream project is the rejuvenation of the Ganges, India’s most sacred ...
The Business Case for Water Stewardship: A Three-Step Process to Operationalize Effective Water Management Strategies
By Emilio Tenuta, vice president of corporate sustainability, EcolabThe dynamics of the world’s water situation are well understood: fresh water is increasingly scarce; it is diminishing in quality at an unacceptable rate; we do not have enough of it where ...
License to Optimize
By Mitch Jackson, Vice President, Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, FedEx"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part" -Judy HollidayThe license to operate is a familiar concept for most—if not all—sustainability-minded professionals. It essentially involves ...
A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems
By Alice Korngold, author, A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems…Where Governments CannotSocial, economic, and environmental challenges threatening our world are likely to increase exponentially in the coming decades. In my latest book, A Better World, ...
Resource Revolution: Uniting Good Business and Sustainability
By Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers, Authors, Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a CenturyThe prophets of doom are wrong. They believe the rapid rise over the next two decades of a new 2.5-billion-person urban middle class—and ...
Making Consumer Choices Easier: Learning from SC Johnson
By Christine Todd Whitman, President, Whitman Strategy GroupAs a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, I am often asked what individuals can and should be doing to preserve our natural resources. My response is a reminder that individual actions have ...
Bringing Enterprise Computing into the 21st Century: A Management and Sustainability Challenge
By Jonathan Koomey, Author, Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-based Advice for Ecological EntrepreneursInformation technology (IT) has been the catalyst for revolutionary change across modern companies, reducing costs, enabling rapid institutional transformation, and generating new products and services. The great irony is that ...
Mindsets and Money: Breaking the Grip of Distorted Economics
By Gil Friend, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Palo AltoOver the course of my more than 40 years of work on sustainability issues in business, government, and the civic sector, one challenge has remained central, reappearing again and again as a make-or-break ...
Four Strategies for Successful Employee Engagement: Lessons from Caesars CodeGreen
By Gwen Migita, Vice President of Sustainability and Community Affairs, Caesars EntertainmentAt Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC), we set out to improve the company’s triple bottom line with our CodeGreen sustainability strategy. Since the inception of CodeGreen six years ago, employees at the property, ...
41 Global Companies Aim to Spur Corporate Action with New Online Platform Linking Nature with Business Benefits
New Natural Capital Business Hub offers a searchable database of case studies and resources to help companies evaluate the business case for action on natural capital. Phoenix, AZ – February 19, 2014 – Unveiled at the 6th Annual GreenBiz Forum, The Natural ...