Can companies be sustainable AND grow?

How can better business processes and technology find ways to solve sustainability challenges involving materials, energy, water and more? A group of global businesses have begun working together to look for innovative answers to those problems. Along the way, they're hoping to find solutions that are not only environmentally responsible but can help their own businesses…

ByThe Global ViewJanuary 17, 20120Comments

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Green business saves $1.60 for every $1 spent, IBM finds

How much can energy efficiency save a business? Ask IBM, which says its conservation programs have cut its bills by more than $50 million in electricity costs since 2008. The amount of electricity it's saved is enough to power 47,000 average US homes for a year. Currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, IBM has run 3,100 conservation…

ByThe Global ViewJune 23, 20110Comments

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Survey: Where’s the value in corporate social responsibility?

Do you work for a firm that's taking steps to be a socially responsible business? If so, we'd like to ask you a few questions in this brief survey. We're interested in learning more about how much your organisation is spending on corporate social responsibility, who's in charge of funding those efforts and what sort of…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 9, 20100Comments

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How does your firm handle corporate social responsibility?

Do you work for a firm that's taking steps to be a socially responsible business? If so, we'd like to ask you a few questions in this brief survey. We're interested in learning more about how much your organisation is spending on corporate social responsibility, who's in charge of funding those efforts and what sort of…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 4, 20100Comments

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IBM: Firms want to be responsible, but lack proper data

While senior business executives say they're committed to improving their commitments to corporate social responsibility, many of their firms aren't gathering the right information they need to do so, according to a new survey by IBM. IBM's second annual global corporate social responsibility (CSR) found that nearly all of the 224 respondents said they want to…

ByThe Global ViewJune 1, 20090Comments

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Moto says hello to sustainability

If Motorola really wants to win big brownie points in Greenbang's book, it should think about stop putting that annoying "hello moto" ringtone on its mobiles. Every time Greenbang hears it, she wants to rip the offending phone out of its owner's hands and beat them with it until they resemble human bolognaise sauce. In…

ByThe Global ViewMay 9, 20080Comments

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China: Officially the daddy on CSR

How often have you wondered if your cheap shirt from a budget clothes store was made by a some underage, underpaid worker in a Chinese sweatshop? Greenbang is guessing if you answered yes, you're probably not the only one. By a long shot. If you were doing the Family Fortunes 'we asked one hundred people'…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 19, 20081Comment

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China Mobile gives sneak peek into green biz plans

To paraphrase a well-known movie tag line, CSR reports are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Sometimes you trawl through hundreds of pages of report and come up with a load of peanut crackle (read: the unloved craptastic bits no-one wants) or you could end up with nothing…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 12, 20080Comments

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