Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the category archives:
Your company’s share price can be negatively affected if you fail to behave responsibly in your business practices.
I have written here a couple of times about environmental risks companies could potentially face. This first time I wrote about this it was in reference to FaceBook’s decision to source the power for their new data center [...]
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I wrote about SAP’s launch of their Sustainability Performance Management software recently. This is a space which is of massively growing importance given the increasing regulations around greenhouse gas emissions, for example.
I was heartened then to hear in a recent discussion with SAS that their Sustainability Management software was launched [...]
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It is the end of the year – that time of year when everyone rolls out their X Predictions for 2010 post and, in that regard, GreenMonk is not going to be any different!
Well , maybe slightly different, some of the following predictions are more like hopes and aspirations on my part [...]
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I wrote a piece on SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management (SPM) tool a few weeks back. At time of writing it was very much in the realms of speculation as the product was, as yet, unreleased.
Last Thursday, Dec 10th, SAP announced the release of the software and having been given a preview of the software [...]
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(Lack of) Sustainability in the mobile phone industry
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I realised recently that although I have referred to the talk I gave in Barcelona on Mobile Sustainability (for the Mobile 2.0 conference) in a couple of posts I never talked about the talk directly here, so now it is time to redress [...]
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Sustainability reporting is a bit all over the place. Standards, such as they are, are many, not widely agreed on, and are loosely observed.
One of the better sustainability reports to emerge this year was SAP’s. Unlike the staid PDF documents most companies put out, SAP’s is a website which allows reasonably deep linking ( here’s [...]
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Here is today’s GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show. I had a couple of problems with the audio setup starting out so the show started a couple of minutes later than normal. Unfortunately, for some reason the quality of the video recorded by Ustream was atrocious (as you can see above – no idea why that [...]
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This month we talked about Peter’s observation that business people’s attitudes to sustainability generally falls 4 main categories: bystander, myopic, opportunistic and strategic.
Peter outlines how he defines those groups and then he challenges viewers to test themselves to see which group they fall into!
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