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From who else? LEGO. Not only is the Denmark-based company big on wind energy, but it aims to be 100-percent powered by renewables by 2020. It’s put out annual updates on its sustainability progress since 2006, and its sustainability reports are probably the most fun, colorful and visually engaging
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For many businesses, “green” is little more than a topical buzzword at management level. “Being green” is an attractive accolade, something to tell investors and customers to boost company image and add an aura of positivity to the products they purchase. In the eyes of many business leaders, being green
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While the world’s political leaders still can’t hammer out a new global climate change agreement, some of the planet’s top companies are wholeheartedly embracing the need for carbon emissions reductions. Among the five corporations scoring highest in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) latest rankings, released today,
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An overwhelming majority of corporate CEOs — 93 per cent — believe sustainability will be critical to the future success of their companies, according to a survey released today by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture. The largest-ever study on executives views about sustainability, the survey questioned 766 CEOs around the
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How can businesses and sustainability efforts best work together to build a better future? That question will lie at the heart of a nine-day summit to be hosted by the Prince of Wales’ Start initiative this fall. Being organised in partnership with IBM, the “Smarter Business for a Sustainable Future”
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Longer corporate responsibility reports are more likely to win companies an environmental gong but they are still packed with greenwash and vague references to terminology such as ‘sustainability’. These are the findings of a report, Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports, by corporate consultancy Spada. The analysis of
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Aviva’s just put out its 2008 CSR report and, rather handily, it’s even divided into sections so Greenbang can skip all the dull bits and just go straight to the bit marked ‘environment’. Luckily for you, Greenbang’s gone even further and just pulled out the good bits
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Are you familiar with the term cognitive dissonance? It’s a ponced up equivalent of saying ‘feeling a bit weird when you realise you should be thinking something other than what you’re thinking’. Like when a politicians realises he actually is a machine for vomiting half-truths and bendy promises
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Greenbang’s not one for prize-giving, mainly because the last time she picked up an accolade was a Blue Peter badge at aged eight. But she’s feeling generous today, so she’ll share the news of some winners in the world of sustainability for those currently wondering how to
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A bad corporate social responsibility report can be the enterprise equivalent of the push-up bra. To put it bluntly, it looks good from afar, but as soon as you take away the nice packaging, there’s not really an awful lot to look at. Greenbang mentions this purely because the
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How often have you wondered if your cheap shirt from a budget clothes store was made by a some underage, underpaid worker in a Chinese sweatshop? Greenbang is guessing if you answered yes, you’re probably not the only one. By a long shot. If you were doing the Family
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To paraphrase a well-known movie tag line, CSR reports are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes you trawl through hundreds of pages of report and come up with a load of peanut crackle (read: the unloved craptastic bits no-one wants) or