“Full Cost” Sustainability Accounting – The Key to Growth for Greener Products?

Posted by proadmin on Apr 15, 2010 5:50:54 AM

screen-shot-2013-03-06-at-9-35-27-amThis morning Jeffrey Hollender, the Chairman of Seventh Generation, gave the keynote for our Green Enterprise 2010 Seminar.

One powerful concept he described was “full cost” sustainability accounting whereby companies are required to include their external environmental costs (ie. things like pollution or resource consumption) into their corporate earnings.

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Topics: green products, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Green product design, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), Green Enterprise 2010, Carbon Accounting, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index

Groom Energy’s April 15th Green Enterprise 2010 seminar

Posted by proadmin on Mar 11, 2010 1:04:04 PM

screen-shot-2010-09-28-at-2-29-02-pmWe’ve excited to announce our next Groom Energy seminar, entitled Green Enterprise 2010, which will be held April 15th at the Embassy Suites Hotel near Boston’s Logan Airport.

As with our previous seminars our target audience remains corporate energy and sustainability managers who wish to hear and discuss best practices, case study based observations.

Last year our first two seminars had a direct focus on the emerging market for Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), a market we had identified and about which we published research.  Our February 25th Boston ECA event featured Mindy Lubber from Ceres who likened climate impact to an off balance sheet risk which should be disclosed by public companies.  Our follow-on May 14th San Francisco ECA event was highlighted by a practical case study panel with presentations from Applied Materials, HP, Intuit and Sony.

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Topics: sustainability manager, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), Green Enterprise 2010, Carbon Accounting, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, Wal-Mart Supplier Workshop, greening the supply chain

The Wal-Mart effect – a Sustainability Index for every industry?

Posted by proadmin on Oct 11, 2009 10:08:22 AM

screen-shot-2010-09-28-at-3-55-57-pmSo first off apologies that I’ve been remiss in updating our blog the last few months – it’s Columbus Day weekend and I’m finally catching up….

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Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Carbon Accounting, sustainability, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, Cap N Trade, greening the supply chain