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Signed, Sealed... Delivered?
Behind Certifications and Beyond Labels
Signed, Sealed...Delivered? looks 'behind certifications and beyond labels' at how these tools, and the performance standards that underpin them, create business value.
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Survey on Sustainable Consumption
Results from The Sustainability Survey
Are we making adequate progress toward the goal of sustainable consumption? And, is it possible to achieve it in the context of continued economic growth?
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The Great Disruption
A conversation with Paul Gilding
Frances Buckingham speaks with Paul Gilding about his new book and his optimism for humanity's ability to successfully navigate, and be better off on the other side of, the Great Disruption.
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The Car Next Door: The Rise of Peer-to-Peer Social Innovation
A conversation with WhipCar founder Vinay Gupta
SustainAbility's Kyra Choucroun chats with Vinay Gupta, founder of WhipCar, about the opportunity to exploit 'idle assets', like your neighbor's car.
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Signed, Sealed... Delivered? Phase One
Eco-labels, trust and behavior change across the value chain
The concept of eco-labels is simple, but the reality isn’t. This paper documents initial findings of research to better understand how firms are using eco-labels and emerging alternatives to create trust and influence behavior across the value chain.
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The Business of Collaborative Consumption
A conversation with Rachel Botsman
SustainAbility's Kyra Choucroun gets the download from Rachel Botsman about a powerful force that is re-inventing not just what we consume, but how we consume it.
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Reporting Change
Readers & Reporters Survey 2010
Sustainability reporting has grown and greatly evolved in the last 20 years, yet it is not always easy for companies to gain any in-depth insight on what the readers of their reports are doing with the information they work so hard to produce.
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The Leading Edge of Sustainability
New Spheres, New Mindsets, New Models
We kicked off our 2010 Engaging Stakeholders members workshops with a discussion on sustainability leadership. Here are highlights of the themes that emerged.
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Employee Engagement: Hearts and Minds
A conversation with John Marshall Roberts
Once considered almost as a by-product of a company’s sustainability strategy, employee engagement on sustainability is now a hot topic, recognized as a crucial driving force for delivering on that strategy.
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Sustainable Brands 2010: “The Power of AND”
Recap and reflections after SustainAbility's fourth year at Sustainable Brands
Patrin Watanatada sums up the SB10 with the observation that the sustainability efforts most likely to succeed are those that are both robust and data-driven on the one hand, and joyful, surprising, delightful and principles-driven on the other.
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Five Principles for Sustainable Brands
Relevant, Responsive, Reliable, Resilient and Transformative
SustainAbility's five principles for ensuring that sustainability is good for brands – and that brands are good for sustainability.
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To Lead Globally, Lead in China (Nikkei Ecology)
Different people had many different reasons for watching the Olympics. In our case it was only in part to do with the sport.
While the world's largest sports goods companies are busy counting the final tally of medals won by 'their' sportspeople, media commentators have noted how marketing itself has now “become an Olympic sport.”
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Keeping It in the Family (China Dialogue)
Family ownership can imbue a firm with a sense of purpose and values its rivals may lack. John Elkington, turning to China’s emerging entrepreneurs, says it’s time to consider best practice in this much-overlooked sector.
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Retail Corporate Sustainability
Why retailers need to be much more creative in telling their sustainability stories to consumers
Sustainability criteria are getting more numerous and complicated by the day: How does a consumer decide what to choose when faced with a growing number of labels and standards (e.g. organic, fair trade, local, carbon neutral)?
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Traceability - A New Perspective for Business (China Dialogue)
Product recalls in China and elsewhere have forced the issue of supply chain management into the spotlight, write John Elkington & Jodie Thorpe. What are the implications for manufacturers, growers, retailers and consumers?
