Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility News from 3BL Media- The End of the Party?: GE to Open Helium Reuse Plant as Shortage Worsens 20 May 2013
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Category Archives: Sustainability Ratings
The Sustainability Ratings Industrial Complex: Breaking the Hold
The TakeAway: The recent launch of the Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings seeks to bring some order, quality, and accountability to the diverse and booming growth industry of sustainability ratings and rankings—also a topic of the online “SustyChat3” among experts, … Continue reading →
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Public Policy, Sustainability Ratings
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Tagged Allen White, Bill Baue, Bloomberg, Bob Massie, BP disaster, Calvert Group, Ceres, Council on Foundations, CSRR-QS, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), James A. Joseph, MacBride Principles, Mark Tulay, Michael Sadowski, Mindy Lubber, OpenEyeWorld, Sullivan Principles, survey fatigue, sustainability, sustainability ratings, SustyChat, Tellus Institute, TIAA-CREF, Valdez Principles
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Gaming for Good
The TakeAway: Game-based technologies can serve as powerful tools for advancing sustainability and civic engagement—while enabling us to become game creators, too. If you’re like many Americans, you spent part of your Christmas holiday playing with your Wii, Xbox360, PlayStation … Continue reading →
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Media & Entertainment, Serious Games, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainability Ratings
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Tagged AMD, AMD Foundation, Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), Changing the Game, Game On! Texas, iCivics, Microsoft, Mozilla Labs, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Parsons The New School for Design, Pew Internet and American Life, Sandra Day O'Connor, Scratch, serious games, social impact, STEM, video games, Ward Tisdale, Warren Spector
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The Three I’s of Sustainability Reporting’s Future
The TakeAway: The Global Reporting Initiative leads sustainability disclosure into a new era through Integration, Implementation, and Integrity. Around the world, thousands of organizations rely on the GRI Reporting Framework and its multi-stakeholder approach to sustainability reporting covering the range of … Continue reading →
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Human Rights, Interactive Technology, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainability Ratings, Sustainable Investing, Web 2.0
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Tagged Accountability Web, BP, Dodd-Frank, Elaine Cohen, Global Reporting Initiative, integrated reporting, John Ruggie, Ron Heifetz, Sanford Lewis, SEC, XBRL
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Colleges Graded on Green
The TakeAway: The 2011 College Sustainability Report Card shows surges in energy efficiency and more on campuses, but less progress on endowment sustainability. Today, the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) released its fifth College Sustainability Report Card, which annually rates and … Continue reading →
Companies Failing to Engage Stakeholders Online
The TakeAway: New rankings on corporate online CSR communication and engagement classify US firms as “below average” Companies are failing to take full advantage of interactive technology for stakeholder engagement and reporting sustainability performance. That’s the primary finding of the … Continue reading →
It’s Raining Ratings!
The TakeAway: In response to the boom in corporate sustainability ratings, SustainAbility releases the second report in its four-phase “Rate the Raters” project. Last month, when JustMeans and CRD Analytics released their Global 1000 Sustainable Performance Leaders list (the latest … Continue reading →
Posted in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability Ratings
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Tagged BP, Ceres, Corporate Knights, Corporation 20/20, CRD Analytics, Deepwater Horizon, Ethical Corporation, FTSE4Good, Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GSIR), Globescan, Inflection Point, IW Financial, John Elkington, JustMeans, MacBride Principles, MSCI, Rate the Raters, Sullivan Principles, sustainability, Toby Webb, triple bottom line, Trucost, Valdez Principles
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