CEF Spotlight
Get into the Game! Opportunities Abound to Integrate Natural Capital Considerations into Business
CEF is pleased to share this feature from member company CH2M HILL, as a preview of the expertise they will be showcasing in the upcoming Natural Capital Business Hub, coming in January 2014. To learn more about the Hub and ...
The Practice of “Greening” Products
Many companies want to make “greener” products, either to establish leadership or in response to demand from customers, investors, stakeholders, or legislators. Across the product lifecycle, there are different ways to reduce a product’s impact through design, the materials used, ...
Being-Centered Leadership and Sustainable Business
The great challenge of sustainable business is that even as global sustainability trends for climate change and ecosystems loss become more alarming, changes in corporate practices have not scaled at the required rate. Many senior executives seem to share this ...
The 100/100 Plan to Create the $10 Trillion New Economy
We have a worldwide challenge to solve climate change. We need the equivalent of 100,000 companies to sell $100 million worth of climate change solutions by 2020. The result: a new $10 trillion economy. We have named this the “100-100 ...
From Supply Chain to Value Web: Saving $38 Billion in the European Food Industry
At 2degrees, we have just finished an initial study with Oxford University’s Said Business School looking at our work with Asda-Walmart, Tesco and others. It showed that the European grocery industry alone could save up to $38.3 billion by simply ...
Lessons from the Middle Fork Salmon River
Last month, nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies were chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to embark on a life-changing sustainability leadership development rafting trip along the Middle Fork of Idaho’s Salmon River with Jib Ellison, a ...
Six Habits of Leading Sustainable Enterprises
As the world grows smaller, the fates of people, governments, corporations and NGOs are becoming increasingly intertwined. We are citizens of one planet, and this interdependence places an increasing responsibility on each of us to not only take ownership for ...
Meet Microsoft’s Carbon Counter: TJ DiCaprio
Microsoft is taking real steps toward becoming a “green tech” leader, thanks in large part to efforts by the company’s senior director of environmental sustainability, TJ DiCaprio. In 2012 DiCaprio led the charge to launch an internal carbon fee that ...
International Perspectives on Business & Sustainability
Juan José Dada of the International Finance Corporation, Stefan Heck of McKinsey & Co., Damien Ma of The Paulson Institute, Dow India CEO and Chairman Vipul S. Shah, and Ingersoll Rand India Chairman & President Venky Valluri reflect on sustainability-related business challenges and opportunities from the ...
19-Year Old “Ecoviator” Launches CO2-Reducing Innovation on Kickstarter
My name is Param Jaggi. I am 19 years old. And yes, I’m crazy enough to think I can change the world. When I was 12 my biology teacher told me the following true—yet inconvenient—reality of life that shook me up: “We ...
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