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The Next 5 Challenges to Sustainable Investing
The Next 5 Challenges to Sustainable Investing
Published on September 28, 2014
About a 7 minute read

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is a growing force in markets across the world. According to the US SIF Foundation, the responsible investing market in the US increased 486 percent while the broader US market of professionally managed assets gre... View More

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#NewMetrics '14: NYC Just One Example of Cities Furthering Sustainability Engagement
#NewMetrics '14: NYC Just One Example of Cities Furthering Sustainability Engagement
Published on September 28, 2014
About a 4 minute read

“How do you get buy-in and get the resources to implement a sustainability campaign? How can you prioritize this over firehouses being shut down and teachers’ salaries? We need data and research.” — Roya KazemiOn Friday, the final day of #New... View More

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#NewMetrics '14: TD Bank, Intel, CA Technologies, WeSpire Share Employee Impact Case Studies
#NewMetrics '14: TD Bank, Intel, CA Technologies, WeSpire Share Employee Impact Case Studies
Published on September 28, 2014
About a 4 minute read

Rounding out the final afternoon of Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ‘14, Susan Hunt Stevens, founder & CEO of WeSpire, led a candid, data-rich conversation with representatives from TD Bank, Intel and CA Technologies about their employee enga... View More

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#NewMetrics '14 Panel Explores Data-Derived Solutions to Top Global Supply Chain Risks
#NewMetrics '14 Panel Explores Data-Derived Solutions to Top Global Supply Chain Risks
Published on September 27, 2014
About a 4 minute read

It’s Friday afternoon at New Metrics ’14, and next on the agenda is a workshop offering data-based insights and recommendations on top global supply chains risks from specialists in the field.The conversation was co-led by Andrew Savini, Manager ... View More

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#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Showcases Tools for All of Your Data-Tracking, -Visualizing and -Interpreting Needs
#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Showcases Tools for All of Your Data-Tracking, -Visualizing and -Interpreting Needs
Published on September 27, 2014
About a 3 minute read

Straight through to the end of the final day, #NewMetrics ’14 continued to introduce ideas and tools for gathering intelligence from previously unavailable or unusable data, as panelists from all over the world gathered to share their experiences, ... View More

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#NewMetrics ’14: Leveraging the World's Brains, Wallets, Data for Solutions to Pressing Problems
#NewMetrics ’14: Leveraging the World's Brains, Wallets, Data for Solutions to Pressing Problems
Published on September 27, 2014
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There is power in the data that a crowd can provide — business- and future-shaping data. The final breakout session at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ‘14 conference in Boston highlighted definitions and examples of crowdfunding and crowdsourci... View More

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#NewMetrics '14: Kingsbury Navigates Vast Landscape of Tools, Imagines ‘Uber Tool’ for Chemical Evaluation
#NewMetrics '14: Kingsbury Navigates Vast Landscape of Tools, Imagines ‘Uber Tool’ for Chemical Evaluation
Published on September 27, 2014
About a 3 minute read

“Sustainability is about being multidisciplinary. If you only look at a narrow slice or issue, you will not find a sustained solution.” — Tony KingsburyChemical expert Tony Kingsbury’s Friday afternoon breakout session on his leading-edge res... View More

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#NewMetrics '14 Day 3 Highlights Power of Consumers to Change Brand Behavior ... and Vice Versa
#NewMetrics '14 Day 3 Highlights Power of Consumers to Change Brand Behavior ... and Vice Versa
Published on September 27, 2014
About a 8 minute read

Bill BaueThe final morning of Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’14 conference started with an invitation from MC Bill Baue, co-founder of the Sustainability Context Group, to imagine “what if?” sustainability pioneer Donella Meadows were in th... View More

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2-Part #NewMetrics '14 Panel Shines Light on Sustainability Context in Practice
2-Part #NewMetrics '14 Panel Shines Light on Sustainability Context in Practice
Published on September 27, 2014
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A two-part session on Thursday afternoon explored sustainability context through examining the evolution of corporate sustainability goals, and case studies from leading companies proactively applying it to their goal-setting processes.First, Sustain... View More

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#New Metrics '14: The Next Frontier of ESG Research and Ratings
#New Metrics '14: The Next Frontier of ESG Research and Ratings
Published on September 26, 2014
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“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.” — Ben FranklinWhy should companies bother with ratings? They show leadership and scale. This second-wave... View More

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#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Explores Progress, Lessons, Challenges of Integrated Reporting
#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Explores Progress, Lessons, Challenges of Integrated Reporting
Published on September 26, 2014
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This afternoon workshop on day 2 of #NewMetrics caught attendees up with the latest from early adopters of integrated reporting. Practitioners have always aimed to derive the best way to report status, progress and value of sustainability work, but t... View More

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Greendex 2014: Increased Fears About Environment Not Reflected in Consumer Behavior
Greendex 2014: Increased Fears About Environment Not Reflected in Consumer Behavior
Published on September 26, 2014
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National Geographic’s 2014 Greendex, released today by the National Geographic Society and GlobeScan, finds that concern about environmental problems has increased in most countries surveyed, and that more people expect that global warming will neg... View More

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#NewMetrics '14 Panel Dives Into #SocialFootprint Approach for Ensuring Product Sustainability
#NewMetrics '14 Panel Dives Into #SocialFootprint Approach for Ensuring Product Sustainability
Published on September 26, 2014
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Thursday, the second afternoon at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’14 conference, featured a follow-up deep dive session into the topic of one of the morning’s well-received plenary presentations — how to quantify a product’s “social foot... View More

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Plenaries Unveil Next-Gen Goal-Setting Frameworks, Groundbreaking Product Assessments on #NewMetrics '14 Day 2
Plenaries Unveil Next-Gen Goal-Setting Frameworks, Groundbreaking Product Assessments on #NewMetrics '14 Day 2
Published on September 25, 2014
About a 6 minute read

It is no secret that markets are starting to demand a more complete picture of businesses' interactions with environmental and social realities of the world — a new, expanded set of success factors and risks to inform key stakeholders — or simply... View More

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#NewMetrics ’14: Catching Up with SASB
#NewMetrics ’14: Catching Up with SASB
Published on September 25, 2014
About a 5 minute read

The third morning workshop on Wednesday, day one of New Metrics ’14, at MIT Sloan School of Business, gave us a closer look at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), its process and its progress to date since its founding in 2012. ... View More

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#NewMetrics ’14 Workshop Reveals Secrets to Effective Employee Engagement
#NewMetrics ’14 Workshop Reveals Secrets to Effective Employee Engagement
Published on September 25, 2014
About a 5 minute read

There is a disconnect between what we are doing for the environment and how we are treating our people, and four thought leaders in integrating the two gathered Wednesday at New Metrics ‘14 to share solutions on solving that gap.Key Thought: Engage... View More

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#NewMetrics '14: LCA — Not Just for Carbon Footprinting Anymore
#NewMetrics '14: LCA — Not Just for Carbon Footprinting Anymore
Published on September 25, 2014
About a 5 minute read

At a conference on New Metrics, it seems fitting to begin with a discussion of the current state of life cycle analysis (LCA), one of the earliest quantitative tools that practitioners had for measuring impact. Initially applied to a narrow set of fu... View More

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#NewMetrics '14 Workshop Explores Next-Generation, Web-Based Sustainability Tools
#NewMetrics '14 Workshop Explores Next-Generation, Web-Based Sustainability Tools
Published on September 25, 2014
About a 5 minute read

In the world of CSR, tools enable practitioners to extend capabilities; when we think differently, we can do differently. In the new and ever evolving world of sustainability, understanding how we can use tools to do better at answering the questions... View More

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Global Shift to Mass Transit Can Save $100 Trillion by 2050
Global Shift to Mass Transit Can Save $100 Trillion by 2050
Published on September 23, 2014
About a 2 minute read

More than $100 trillion in cumulative public and private spending, and 1,700 megatons of annual carbon dioxide (CO2) — a 40 percent reduction of urban passenger transport emissions — could be eliminated by 2050 if the world expands public transpo... View More

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Why We Need to Build Context Into Sustainability Surveys
Why We Need to Build Context Into Sustainability Surveys
Published on September 18, 2014
About a 6 minute read

Surveys of corporate executives consistently find that sustainability is now viewed as a core business issue. Recently, McKinsey released the results of another such survey that opened: “Company leaders are rallying behind sustainability, and execu... View More

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