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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol released the much anticipated Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard this past October. The standard provides guidance that will, for the first time, allow companies to develop a truly complete greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory—one that includes emissions from all of the processes and activities in Read More »
February 2-3, 2012 – ERB Institute/Winter Advisory Board Meeting
Catherine Greener of Cleargreen Advisors will be attending the ERB Institue’s Advisory Board Meeting at the University of Michigan. Read More »
February 15, 2012 – Toronto Sustainability Summit
Catherine Greeener of Cleargreen Advisors will be discussing “Environmental Factors that Work” and leading a Round Table discussion at the Toronto Sustainability Summit, February 15, 2012 Read More »
Cleargreen Advisors Launches Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting and Reporting Service
Boulder, Colorado, USA. 1 December 2011. Sustainability consulting firm Cleargreen Advisors has launched a new service to help companies develop Scope 3 (value chain) greenhouse gas emissions inventories. In addition to years of carbon accounting and reporting experience, Cleargreen Advisors provided technical expertise during development of the new GHG Protocol Read More »
Why We are NOT Disappointed with the iPhone 4S
Why We are NOT Disappointed with the iPhone 4S By Renaud desRosiers Lost in the lukewarm at best and openly disappointed at worst headlines of yesterday’s iPhone 4S release from Apple (see for example Huffington Post’s Why we are disappointed with the iPhone 4s (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/iphone-4s-disappointed_n_995095.html), is what we at CGA Read More »
Beyond the Four Walls: Carbon Accounting 2.0
by Renaud des Rosiers Today is an exciting day in the world of accounting (I’m sure there’s a joke here somewhere). Culminating an exhaustive three year multi-stakeholder process, the WBCSD and WRI today launched the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 3 Corporate Value Chain and Product accounting standards—a monumental step in Read More »
We are Just Asleep
Yoga teaches about three levels of consciousness – the unconscious, conscious and superconscious. The unconscious is a state of dim awareness, most often accessed when we are asleep. The conscious is the rational mind guiding our daily decisions. Our source of intuition and creativity is our superconscious, which lets us Read More »
Slogans, Easy Fixes and Silver Bullets – Can’t Be Found at the Bottom of a Coffee Cup
There are lots of wonderful, quirky shops along Pearl St. in the heart of Boulder. Bead shops, trendy clothing, home decor stores, and medical marijuana store fronts spill their wares, discounts and specials along the sidewalk to entice you further into their stores. In many ways, the storefronts don’t operate Read More »
Want to bring back manufacturing jobs and spur growth?
The news has been grim: debt defaults, deficit, market drops and an unemployment number that resists efforts to pull it downward. But there is something we can all do at an individual level and it starts with our pocket book. We’re not suggesting that you go out and purchase the Read More »
America’s Top Green Brands
On his blog, Marc Gunther reviews ImagePower® Global Green Brands Study listing of America’s top green brand and reports consumers are savvy. In the post, our own Catherine Greener, co-founder of Cleargreen Advisors, asserts that “Wal-Mart’s sustainability initiative was the best thing to happen to the environment in the U.S. Read More »