Meetings, conferences, seminars… I’m sure your calendar is full of them. But, this year, do you find yourself looking at that schedule with a more critical eye? Maybe you’re trying to cut costs in the company’s travel budget, or perhaps your goal is to reduce the carbon footprint of a conference you’re hosting –either way, one thing is certain: these days, we’re all approaching business meetings differently than ever before.
Interesting article on the front page of the Business section of today’s New York Times. Andrew Martin reports that PepsiCo is scheduled to announce carbon-footprint numbers for its Tropicana orange juice later today.
That’s big news because it signals that global corporations like PepsiCo are paying attention to things like GHG emissions and carbon footprint analyses –and that they’re now moving those findings off the pages of their CSR reports and out into the public eye.
A few months ago, Greenpeace invited electronics manufacturers to submit their “greenest” products for evaluation in the second edition of its Green Electronics Survey.
This survey is different than the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics that I have posted about before. The Guide focuses on overall corporate policies and practices. The Survey, however, rates the environmental performance of individual products, looking to find the greenest electronic products on the market.
Unfortunately, not all companies who were invited to participate chose to do so.
I spent most of the 1990s working in the non-profit conservation sector in DC and Latin America, and as I’ve said before, back then we would have fallen out of our chairs if you’d told us how mainstream the notion of “going green” would become by 2009.
Now, today, we are inaugurating a President whose proposed American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill includes more than $50 billion in green initiatives to “create jobs with clean, efficient, American energy.” In short, Obama “gets it,” too.
A lot has changed in 15 short years.
You do.
With today’s complex, global supply chains, security isn’t just important –it’s absolutely critical.
For proof, take a look at this op-ed piece that appeared in yesterday’s online version of The Star, one of the leading English-language newspapers in Malaysia.
