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Marc Major’s most recent article on retailer sustainability as seen on Greenbiz.com A Glimpse into the Future of Retailer Sustainability In our work helping retailers and retail suppliers embed sustainability into their business to build competitive advantage, CEOs ask us a lot of questions. These three may be the most Read More »
7 Ways to Improve Your Business: and Get Ahead of Things You’ll Have to Do Anyway
Retail suppliers are hearing a lot about sustainability lately[1]. In a previous article, we discussed the slow but inexorable rise in retailer action to improve the environmental and social impacts of their processes and the products they sell. Like it or not, a new reality is emerging, in which transparency Read More »
Art Appreciation for the New Millennium
A toddler reminds us that thriving in the 21st century will require seeing beyond the Me, Here & Now The 5th floor of New York’s Museum of Modern Art is relatively unpopular with small children but one toddler dragged there on a recent visit made the best of it. Supercharged Read More »
OECD (2012), Sustainable Materials Management: Making Better Use of Resources
Marc Major contributed to the OECD (2012), Sustainable Materials Management: Making Better Use of Resources, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264174269-en This publication brings together a significant body of work on Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) that has been developed in recent years by the OECD’s Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste and Read More »
Can Suppliers Meet Retailers’ Rising Sustainability Expectations?
Marc Major’s most recent article on greenbiz.com http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/10/29/can-suppliers-meet-retailers-rising-sustainability-expectations In Part 1 of this two-part series, Marc Major provided an overview of retailers’ efforts to embrace sustainability. This is Part 2. As retailers lay out their sustainability expectations, supplier reactions vary. We’ve seen the full range of emotions famously described by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ five Read More »
Leveraging Supply Chains for Impactful GHG Reductions
Please read Renaud des Rosiers’ article in Sustainable Brands http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/supplychain/leveraging-supply-chains-impactful-ghg-reductions Mainstream media outlets are focusing on other things for the moment and regulatory momentum ebbs and flows, but greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are still important in the long term, and remain high among corporate sustainability priorities. As efforts to account Read More »
Marc Major’s article in GreenBiz.com
Read our own Marc Major’s article in GreenBiz.com, Is sustainability here to stay? What retailers think Retail suppliers are hearing a lot about sustainability lately. Recent news include theSustainability Consortium, Walmart’s Sustainability Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and other major industry initiatives. But given a history of industry plans and programs which proved Read More »
Making It Personal: Engaging Employees for Sustainable Success
Many companies know the value of employee engagement particularly around a long-term trend as significant to future business success as sustainability. But as they invest in and launch employee sustainability engagement efforts they often find these programs perform below expectations. Why? The answer varies. Some employee engagement efforts simply have Read More »
Citizenship & Sustainability Conference
Marc Major will be speaking at The Conference Board’s (Trusted Insights for Business Worldwide) 2012 Sustainability Conference. This year’s topic -”The Management Challenge of Ethics, Citizenship, and Sustainability: A New Business Model” June 20-21, 2012 - The Fairfax at Embassy Row, Washington D.C. Read More »
BAHRA Annual Sustainability Conference-April 19, 2012
Catherine Greener of CGA will be a co-heading this year’s BAHRA Annual Sustainability Conference in Boulder, CO April 19, 2012 “Catherine will send you back to your organization with a clear understanding of employee engagement starting with your employee’s own values and building to action items that will not only Read More »