Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category

“Carbon Management Software to reduce costs”, Keenan Hahn, Vice-President of Verteego Carbon North America

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Here's an interview of Keenan Hahn, Chief of North American Operations at Verteego Carbon, a carbon accounting and management enterprise software solution, on French web TV decideurstv.com. According to Keenan Hahn from Verteego Carbon, the inventory, measurement, management, analysis, reduction and reporting of green house gas (GHG) emissions is an increasingly ...

Interview of Mary Jo Padgett, Environmental & Conservation

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Mary Jo Padgett met through a brillant American-living-in-Paris good friend of ours, Nicholas Chriss, something like 12 months ago. Mary Jo definitely knows what it takes to help people and businesses go green. You'll find why and how in this interview: Gérants verts par DECIDEURS TV

AIG Bonuses: Sustainable business or a waste of taxpayer money?

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

American International Group, already the recipient of over $170 billion from the US government, has come under fire in recent days for paying out $165 million in bonuses. Without government intervention AIG would have failed, and now the taxpayer money that is supposed to be used to save it, is ...

Who reads sustainability and CSR reports?

Friday, March 13th, 2009

The popularity of sustainability reports among larger companies has increased rapidly in recent years. Back in the 1980's, only chemical companies issued "sustainability reports." Those reports were really just environmental impact reports. Today, over 50% of the Global Fortune 100 and more than 2000 companies worldwide from every imaginable ...

EPA Proposes Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

A new rule proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency will require just over 13,000 facilities accounting for nearly 90% of US greenhouse gas emissions to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The plan would require companies in a broad range of industries that emit at least 25,000 metric tons of ...

The Sustainable Office – Part 10: Measure and Report Sustainability Performance

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Here we are. The final installation in the 10-part series on sustainability in your office has arrived. Just to recap briefly, here is a list of the previous nine topics covered in The Sustainable Office. . 1. Computers 2. Lighting 3. Paper and Ink 4. Commuting 5. Packaging 6. Water 7. Air 8. Furniture 9. Food And the final, most ...

10 reasons SMEs must embrace Sustainability

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

We speak to many small & medium business owners who come and ask us: why should my company execute a sustainability strategy? Isn't sustainability a waste of time & money in these difficult economic times? Our answer is usually the following: SMEs who are not committed to expanding sustainably will die. ...

Golden Parachute: Is that fair?

Monday, October 13th, 2008

A point of view more and more difficult to defend! What can Lehman Brothers CEO, Richard Fuld answer when Henry Arnold Waxman asks him if it's fair that he got paid $480 millions when the company is bankrupt? "Almost nothing",  he says! It's not possible to anticipate about new regulations that this ...

An interview of Cynthia Wentworth & John Holtzclaw on eco-transportation

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Thanks to Thomas Blard, the founder of decideurs.tv, I've been for about a month now the interviewer in a series of podcasts dedicated to putting green best practices in the spotlight in corporate circles. You may find all related podcasts of the weekly program Gérants Verts by clicking on the ...

To whom should the VP of Sustainability report?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Ante scriptum for those companies without a VP of Sustainability yet (those who already do may pass this paragraph): If you don't have an in-house VP of Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility Manager yet, then start thinking about it. True, the most socially responsible corporations are probably those in which ...