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Literally dozens of organizations provide eco-guidance related to buying green products. What makes the Sustainable Purchasing Council (SPC) unique is its mission to help purchasing managers consider this process more holistically. SPC, which launches officially at a July meeting in W...
In a stunning display of willful negligence, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) today released the long-awaited update to its Sustainability Reporting Guidelines , G4 , in which known defects are left firmly in place. Of particular concern is GRI’s handling of the reporting princip...
For the 17th year, the American Institute of Architects' Committee on the Environment has chosen its Top 10 Green Buildings for 2013, which showcase excellence in green design. This year continues the theme of social consciousness, started in 2012, where participants are asked to desi...
I’ve been having a difficult time this last week or so. It seems a little harder to get out of bed in the morning, a little harder to crack a joke in an email. And that seems strange given that the sun finally has come out and we seem to be getting into spring, my favorite time of yea...
Certified sustainable segments of industries with the biggest environmental and social footprints -- agriculture, forestry and tourism -- have been growing for a decade. Rainforest Alliance Certified farms produce 4.6 percent of the world’s coffee, 10.2 percent of cocoa, 11.2 percent ...
Kroger has come up with a solution that will put a dent in the food waste generated by the supermarket chain -- it will turn it into biogas energy that powers a distribution center. Kroger is the biggest supermarket chain in the U.S. with 2,400 supermarkets in 31 states. Any food that...
What is the human toll for our purchases? Do the organizations we support care about their employees? Do they support the local community? How is their money invested? These are some unanswered questions leaders in green building design say we have not addressed as we have developed w...
Amsterdam — After the first day of the GRI conference, I wanted to take a moment to recap the changes and practical implications associated with the just-released, upgraded sustainability reporting standard known as G4. As a GRI-certified training partner, ERM participated in a one-da...
