Here are a number of resources you can use. Keep checking back here often as we will continue to build this section of the site with new material. All of these are free for you to use.
The Iceberg of Value
By Bob Willard, The Sustainability Advantage
It is about increasing corporate value through sustainability strategies; understanding what lurks above and below the waterline. Companies embracing sustainability strategies can grow their "icebergs of value" above and below the waterline. They can mitigate impending risks and capture profitable opportunities.
Courtesy Awareness Into Action
http://www.awarenessintoaction.com/whitepapers/bob-willard-corporate-sustainability-strategies.html
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Following Products Through The Green Supply Chain
By Taylor Wilkerson, LMI
A practical guide to assist organizations in greening their supply chain while strengthening stakeholder relationships and improving customer brand loyalty. For most companies, the path to sustainability begins with the supply chain. After all, the supply chain is where companies move things, make things, store things, and throw things away. It is a crucial part of an organization's environmental footprint. Green supply chain management-the integration of both environmental and supply chain management-is a proven way to reduce a company's impact on the environment while improving business performance.
Courtesy Awareness Into Action
http://www.awarenessintoaction.com/whitepapers/green-supply-chain-sustainable-programs.html
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Sustainability on the Store Shelf
By Peter Capozuca, Kathryn Pavlovsky, and Michael Daher, Deloitte
Balancing opportunities and risks associated with sustainable products. Sustainability is increasingly influencing brand image and perception of consumer product companies. According to a study by Information Resources, Inc., about 50 percent of consumers consider at least one sustainability factor when selecting products and shopping destinations. But it's still not clear if consumers are willing to sacrifice convenience or pay price premiums for greener products, or how the price/convenience trade-off could vary depending on the product category. For example, a consumer may choose to buy sustainable health and wellness products, but not apply those same selection criteria to household staples such as trash bags.
Courtesy Awareness Into Action
http://www.awarenessintoaction.com/whitepapers/sustainability-on-the-store-shelf.html
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The Green Building Advantage Won't Last Long
By Doug Gatlin, U.S. Green Building Council
Smart companies are gaining a competitive advantage in building sustainably, but time is running out for those companies still on the sidelines: going green is poised to become the competitive imperative. Sustainability is fast becoming accepted as a mainstream ideal in our society. 2007 was marked by a series of bellwether events: corporate America challenging our nation's political leadership to take swift action to reduce greenhouse gases; Al Gore and the Internal Panel on Climate Change sharing a Nobel Peace Prize for their work on global climate change; and oil surging to $100 per barrel. There is no doubt that economic, social, scientific, and cultural forces are coming together to go green.
Courtesy Awareness Into Action
http://www.awarenessintoaction.com/whitepapers/doug-gatlin-increasing-property-values-reducing-operating-costs.html
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The Sustainable Enterprise Report
This 155-page report includes articles by many of the leaders in sustainable enterprise and "green" thinking. In addition, you will find lots of case studies. You can also subscribe to a newsletter. It's all free.
Report courtesy Kyoto Planet
http://www.awarenessintoaction.com/subscribe/
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Sustainable Life Media has lots of interviews with many people who are leading the pack on a great variety of green issues, but mostly tell you what their companies are doing to change in this direction. There are 41 such interviews here.
Courtesy Sustainable Life Media
http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/people/innovators
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New Guide Demystifies Green Forest Product Purchasing
Corporate managers now have help with this “Guide to the Guides” – a toolbox that helps them understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world's forests. The guide is free.
Courtesy World Business Council for Sustainable Development
http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MjkzNDY
Related to this is the:
Glossary of Terms in Wood and Paper-Based Products
This is a handy guide to all the terms you might come across when dealing with the wood and paper industries or purchasing products. The glossary is free.
Courtesy Sustainable Forest Products
http://www.sustainableforestprods.org/node/38
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"SEE"ing Change: 2008 Progress Report
Business Roundtable highlights environmental efforts of 32 member companies. They reported on their ongoing sustainability efforts. Member companies (listed below), representing virtually every sector of the economy, outlined their efforts to achieve real environmental and social changes through their commitments to sustainable business practices. The report is free.
Courtesy Business Roundtable
- Abbott Laboratories
- Accenture
- Alcoa Inc.
- American Electric Power
- Caterpillar, Inc.
- Citi
- Convergys Corporation
- DuPont
- Eastman Kodak Company
- Eaton Corporation
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Fannie Mae
- FPL Group Inc.
- General Electric Company
- General Motors Corporation
- HSBC
- Ingersoll Rand Company Limited
- ITT Corporation
- National Gypsum Company
- Norfolk Southern Corporation
- Office Depot Inc.
- Owens Corning
- Pfizer Inc.
- Siemens Corporation
- State Farm
- Tenneco, Inc.
- The Coca-Cola Company
- The Dow Chemical Company
- The McGraw-Hill Companies
- The Procter & Gamble Company
- Weyerhaeuser Company
- Xerox Corporation
http://seechange.businessroundtable.org/PDF/SEEing_Change_2008_Progress_Report.pdf
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Design & Sustainability: Opportunities for Systematic Transformation
By Jason Pearson
This report, done for the Summit Foundation, provides a view of the challenges and opportunities in making environmentally beneficial design choices.
Courtesy of GreenBlue
http://www.greenblue.org/PDFs/PEARSON%20Design%20+%20Sustainability.pdf
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Believe it or not, this list has about 700 such associations, all linked to their own web sites. It is a handy reference and it is free.
Courtesy of Recycle.net
http://www.recycle.net/recycle/assn/index.html
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"Green Careers" are the focus for many young people now. Here is a good source listing literally hundreds of job openings.
Courtesy GreenBiz.
http://jobs.greenbiz.com/
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The Bottom Line Series: Carbon Taxes
A carbon tax is a fee imposed on fossil fuels, and other primary products (e.g., refrigerants), based on the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) they emit. You will find here links to other reports in their "Bottom Line Series," including:
Cap-and-Trade
- Renewable Electricity Standards
- Renewable Energy Tax Credits
- Corporate GHG Inventories
- GHG Emissions Registries
- Climate Policy Terminology
Reports courtesy World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/publication/bottom-line-carbon-taxes
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When GREEN Moves Front & Center for Distribution Centers
By Gary Forger, Material Handling Industry of America
There’s no question that green (or sustainability, if you prefer) has taken on a new importance in business during the past year. What was once considered to be a “nice to have” attribute is rapidly becoming a corporate edict on a grand scale. And it’s becoming important throughout the supply chain. Free report.
Courtesy Material Handling Industry of America
http://www.mhia.org/news/industry/7115/when-green-moves-front---38--center-for-distribution-centers
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Book Industry Undergoing Green Transformation
The U.S. book industry emits over 12.4 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, or approximately 8.85 pounds of carbon for the average book (.89 lb), with most of the impact connected to forest carbon loss, according to a new report, from the Green Press Initiative and Book Industry Study Group. This overview article is free.
Courtesy Environmental Leader
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/03/19/book-industry-undergoing-green-transformation