This white paper proposes a Sustainability Framework to facilitate development of a sustainability strategy. The Framework can be used to evaluate the overall scope of current sustainability initiatives, and identify and recommend new actions. It can also be used to provide a structure for critical analysis of an organization’s existing sustainability strategy. The approach was developed based on programs at BT and from partners and suppliers that are committed to making a difference.
On July 4th 2011 while we Americans were celebrating Independence, the British were still working hard and Niall Dunne joined BT as our new chief sustainability officer to lead on climate change, and sustainable development and strategy. Niall had spent the past decade leading sustainability practices in Saatchi & Saatchi and Accenture, and in building their credentials and reputation in the sustainability area. He is already having a marked impact in BT. In this blog post he shares his perspective on the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 17.
People always make better decisions when they understand the relationship between the cause and effect of their actions. Humanity’s evolutionary story to date has… Read the Full Post
On Monday last week I attended an excellent roundtable organized by the World Environment Center (WEC) and Dow at the National Press Club in DC. The topic was Creating Shared Value (CSV) and the excellent keynote presentation was by Mark Kramer, one of the authors of the January 2011 paper on the topic in the Harvard Business Review.
CSV is a hot topic in the field that I gather, from this blog post by Aman Singh, and others I have read, and was covered widely at BRC and NetImpact too. The WEC event was excellent with great speakers all around, including John Bee of Nestle, who put a comment on my… Read the Full Post
The ISSP, CROA and NetImpact have all recently taken a look at the competencies required by the practitioner from different perspectives. All reports are available free on-line. A very… Read the Full Post
ICT services impact our every day lives from how we work, to how we travel to how we make purchasing decisions for our daily needs. In this video series, I examine all of these elements from inside executive offices, to transportation systems, inside grocery stores and even in my own home.
In this third episode, I explore how ICT enables telework to help organizations lower its carbon footprint, support work-life balance and reduce real estate expenses.
There is a very valid question of whether telecommuting simply shifts the carbon burden from the office to the home. If the use of energy in the home for one person is less efficient than in the… Read the Full Post
The cl0sing paragraph Section 20 para (c) reads “This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the Federal Government and is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforcable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. ” BARACK OBAMA The White House Oct0ber 5th 2009
So its official, by Presidential Order. Sustainability… Read the Full Post
On July 4th 2011 while we Americans were celebrating Independence, the British were still working hard and Niall Dunne joined BT as our new chief sustainability officer to lead on climate change, and sustainable development and strategy. Niall had spent the past decade leading sustainability practices in Saatchi & Saatchi and Accenture, and in building their credentials and reputation in the sustainability area. He is already having a marked impact in BT. In this blog post he shares his perspective on the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 17.