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Cleargreen Advisors Launches Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting and Reporting Service
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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 »
Livewell Earth Day 2011
When you’re a “green” consultant (whose last name coincidentally is Greener), people ask you a lot of questions about saving the planet. Especially around Earth Day. Of course there are the obvious ways to do it—follow the reduce-reuse and recycle mantra….(notice, it’s not recycle, reduce, reuse…..) but there is a Read More »
Where do we go from here?
A new year is upon us. So where do we go from here? Though it may seem a bit late for a reflective New Year’s pause, we at CGA feel that February, when widespread talk of transformative resolutions and grandiose expectations has finally subsided, is the perfect time to contemplate Read More »
Pollutions and Pandas in Chengdu
Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, is a city of several million in southwestern China. It prides itself on being one of the most laid-back cities in China as well as – perhaps not coincidentally – the Chinese city that visitors are most reluctant to leave. Internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou (creator Read More »