As corporate sustainability target-setting becomes increasingly integrated into core business decisions, agreeing to and implementing ambitious targets now reaches far beyond sustainability teams. With over 320 companies seeking Science-based GHG targets, and leading businesses pursuing context-based targets for impacts related to land and water use, the momentum toward targets that actually solve key sustainability issues is palpable.
Hear from Steelcase Director of Design Bruce Smith about how to push limits, explore edges, and prototype quickly, and the benefits of applying design thinking to developing sustainable systems.
From Idea to Open Source: A Sustainable Packaging Journey with Candela Montero, Director of Corporate Citizenship at Disney Consumer Products and Interactive.
As demand for bottled water continues to grow, water sources need to be carefully identified, developed, and managed to ensure their sustainability. At the same time, growing community and environmental concern has made siting new sources increasingly challenging. To address this, NWNA has developed a first-of-its-kind Siting Framework — a collaborative process to encourage clear, consistent outcomes along with transparent engagement with communities as potential new water sources are identified, evaluated, designed, and brought online.
Marty Spitzer, senior director of climate and renewable energy for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has been a GreenBiz partner since the days that it was a printed newsletter. Similarly, he has partnered with the Renewable Energy Buyers’ Alliance (REBA) since its “humble beginnings with maybe 13 people sitting around a table, thinking about what’s possible,” he said. By its summit in September 2017, REBA had 400 members attendees, some of them Fortune 500 companies looking for ways to ease large-scale corporate renewable energy purchases.
MGM Resorts and UPS shed insight about how company boards may be open to hearing the business case.
Set targets. Not too many. Mostly about outcomes.
Rebuilding after a disaster isn’t just about bricks and mortar. It’s about lives and communities.
Whether circling the block to park or boarding a Lyft for a ride, you may have noticed this imbalance in the way cities are built. Here are 4 ways to get curbs to work better.
Call it enlightened self-interest, but it’s a potential win-win for both worlds.