Updates

Sustainable Brands is excited to introduce the New Metrics ’17 Boot Camps—a new set of educational courses on applying New Metrics to four critical business functions: Strategy & Operations, Finance & Investor Relations, Supply Chain Management, and HR & Employee Engagement—at this year’s New Metrics Conference. Each of these four new Boot Camps will offer […]

Since 2009, The Sustainability Consortium has worked towards making the business case for the production of more sustainable consumer products. We have created systems and metrics that capture the rise of companies committed to increased visibility in their visible supply chains. But with the increase in suppliers using our surveys each year, we’re seeing a […]

Engaged employees lead to better business outcomes. As companies look for ways to boost employee engagement, they are focusing on job purposing—the concept of linking an organization’s purpose and an individuals’ job to society contribution. And, job purposing increasingly includes sustainability-focused employee engagement. However, despite the rapid evolution and uptake of this practice, many companies […]

As the Director of CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative, an effort to shift trillions in investor assets to companies that move away from the current myopic focus on short-term results, and adopt and communicate long-term strategies that integrate financially material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, the question I’m asked often is, "What’s the connection between […]

The most recent damning report on BPA from the Center for Environmental Health documented the current use of BPA in can linings and found that 38% of the cans tested from four large national retail chains — Kroger, Albertsons, Dollar Tree, and 99 Cents Only — still use BPA-containing linings. They also found that, in […]

"There is no sustainable business in an unsustainable world." This saying — a kind of Reporting 3.0 "motto" — is simultaneously contrarian and common sense. Contrarian in the sense that it counters the prevailing tendency in the corporate sustainability field to focus on incremental progress toward sustainability at the company ("micro") level. Common sense in […]