Resources
This library provides you with an access point to the knowledge you need to profitably increase social benefits and reduce environmental impacts in your organization.
Most of the information is available in downloadable documents rather than URL references. (There is no need to compete with Google!) The library will be updated as better documents replace older versions, but the focus is on the information base that is propelling change rather than on updating sustainable business news.
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- Accounting and Green Banking
Balancing Risk and Performance with an Integrated Finance Organization
(PDF 2 MB) Read >Financial Wonks Meet Treehuggers: New Tool Places Valuation on Corporate Sustainability
(PDF 24 KB) Read >Putting Principles into Actions: Sustainability applied to lending
(PDF 864 KB) Read >Sustainability focus: Sustainability statement by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), the global body for professional accountants.
(PDF 28 KB) Read >The ADVANCE Guide to Sustainable Value Companies
(PDF 448 KB) Read >The SIGMA Guidelines Toolkit: Sustainability Accounting Guide
(PDF 864 KB) Read > - Business Case + Overview
Bob Willard's Sustainability Advantage Worksheets
(XLS 80 KB) Read >Building the Business Case for Sustainability. (Contains the NIKE case study)
(PDF 1.9 MB) Read >Communicating the Business Case for Sustainability
(PDF 928 KB) Read >CSR as a Business Strategy as identified by BSR
(PDF 368 KB) Read >NBIS Profitable Sustainability* Checklist: Optimizing Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits
(PDF 124 KB) Read >State of Green Business 2008
(PDF 1.8 MB) Read >The Business Case for High-Level System Change by Frank Dixon
(PDF 88 KB) Read > - By-Product Synergy
- Case Histories
HomeStreet Bank:A Carbon Footprint Measurement Case
(PDF 1 MB) Read >SERA Architects - A Natural Step Case Study
(PDF 336 KB) Read >Sustainable Industries: Industrial Revolution-Grays Harbor Paper greens a blue-collar town
(PDF 1.5 MB) Read >The Color of Tomorrow's Money-The road to green business practices becomes a path to profits, a PMI profile.
(PDF 148 KB) Read > - Clean Technology
The Clean Revolution: Technologies from the Leading Edge
(PDF 340 KB) Read > - Commuter Programs
How to Start an Employee Commute-Benefits Program in Ten Easy Steps
(PDF 88 KB) Read > - Construction and Green Building
Overview
Using The Natural Step As A Framework Toward The Construction and Operation of Fully Sustainable Buildings
(PDF 120 KB) Read >site_development
Site Development - NBIS Draft of Sustainable Site Framework (not quite complete) for Training Construction Site Project Managers
(PDF 332 KB) Read >Standards
B Resource Guide: LEED Standards and Certification
(PDF 72 KB) Read >LEED? for new Construction & Major Renovations
(PDF 396 KB) Read > - Corporate Governance & Design
Corporate Design - The Missing Business and Public Policy Issue of Our Time
(PDF 380 KB) Read >Corporate Governance and Climate Change; Consumer and Technology Companies
(PDF 3.1 MB) Read >Summit on the Future of the Corporation
(PDF 10 MB) Read >The Enterprise of the Future: IBM Global CEO Study
(PDF 1.5 MB) Read > - Energy
Clean Energy Handbook for Business
(PDF 6 MB) Read >Carbon Footprint Measurement
Calculator
(XLS 3 MB) Read >Curbing Your Climate Impact: A Resource Guide for Employers
(PDF 772 KB) Read >HOT CLIMATE, COOL COMMERCE: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management
(PDF 2.7 MB) Read >Scorecard
(PDF 3.2 MB) Read >Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?
(PDF 1.3 MB) Read >WA mandatory tracking for GHG Environmental News
(PDF 120 KB) Read > - Environmental Impact & Management
Business & Environment
Connecting the Dots: The nexus between ecosystems and business
(PDF 3.8 MB) Read >Connecting the Drops Toward Creative Water Strategies: A Water Sustainability Tool
(PDF 612 KB) Read >Management Systems
Case Study: Ford Motor Company/Twin Cities Plant
(PDF 116 KB) Read >EMS Development and Implementation Recommended Steps
(PDF 128 KB) Read >Environmental Management System Resources Guide
(PDF 140 KB) Read >Environmental Management Systems
(PDF 120 KB) Read >Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations
(PDF 1 MB) Read >Partnerships & Incentive Programs
A Business Guide to U.S. EPA Climate Partnership Programs
(PDF 1.3 MB) Read >Green Team Program?Chain of Engagement & Services
(PDF ) Read >The Busy Business Owner's Guide to Sustainable Business Practices
(PDF 696 KB) Read > - Green Team Resources
- Greening the Office
- Human Resources
- Leadership for Sustainability
Sustainability Change Management
(PDF 812 KB) Read > - Life Cycle Assessment Thinking
- Marketing
- Metrics
Metrics that Matter
(PDF 896 KB) Read >The Balanced Scorecard and Corporate Social Responsibility: Aligning Values for Profit
(PDF 220 KB) Read >The Metrics Navigator
(PDF 8.9 MB) Read >The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Eco-efficiency Analysis
(PDF 384 KB) Read >Triple Bottom Line Indicators
(PDF 164 KB) Read >Sustainable Indicators by T Greiner
Categorizing Indicators
(PDF 56 KB) Read >Coastal Rubber Company Activity
(PDF 28 KB) Read >Dealing with Indicators
(PDF 116 KB) Read >Developing and Selecting Indicators
(PDF 584 KB) Read >Developing Sustainability Indicators
(PDF 584 KB) Read >GRI Environmental Indicators
(PDF 24 KB) Read >GRI Social Indicators (Excerpts)-Labour Practices and Decent Work
(PDF 28 KB) Read >Guidelines for the Practical Assesment of Progress Towards Sustainable Development
(PDF 24 KB) Read >Indicators for Government / Community Organizations
(PDF 452 KB) Read >Indicators for Sustainable Government & Communities
(PDF 20 KB) Read >Measuring Environmental Performance
(PDF 112 KB) Read >Monitoring Social Performance
(PDF 40 KB) Read >Seventh Generation Case Study
(PDF 356 KB) Read >Social Indicators Activity
(PDF 16 KB) Read >Sustainability Indicators Web Sites
(PDF 16 KB) Read >Timothy J. Greiner Bio
(PDF 12 KB) Read > - Operations-Product and Service-Management
GRI Environmental Indicators
(PDF 24 KB) Read >GRI Social Indicators (Excerpts): Labour Practices and Decent Work
(PDF 28 KB) Read >Measuring Environmental Performance: A Genie Industries Case Study
(PDF 2.5 MB) Read >Sustainability Indicators Web Sites
(PDF 16 KB) Read >Teaching Sustainable Operations Management at BGI and PWC
(PDF 180 KB) Read >The Third Wave in Biotechnology: Creating a New and More Sustainable Industrial Revolution
(PDF 1 MB) Read > - Packaging
Definition of Sustainable Packaging
(PDF 176 KB) Read >Environmental Packaging Guideline for the Electronics Industry
(PDF 3.3 MB) Read >Packaging and Planning Template
(PDF 28 KB) Read >Sustainable Packaging Redefined
(PDF 316 KB) Read >Wal-Mart Unveils ?Packaging Scorecard? to Suppliers
(PDF 28 KB) Read >Walmart Environmental Sustainability ? Principles
(PDF 20 KB) Read >Walmart Packaging Factsheet
(PDF 528 KB) Read > - Product Design
- Purchasing - Procurement
Buying Environmentally Preferable Office Equipment: A Buyer?s Guide
(PDF 278 KB) Read >NBIS Purchasing Workshop: Scott Case
(PDF 2.7 MB) Read >Purchasing and Disposing of Computers and Related Electronics: Ostrom
(PDF 26 KB) Read >Responsible Purchasing Network Publications
(PDF 124 KB) Read >Susainable Purchasing: Eun-Sook Goidel
(PDF 758 KB) Read >Sustainable Paper Purchasing & Management: Ostrom
( ) Read > - Reporting - CSR
Beyond Reporting: Creating Business Value
(PDF 34 KB) Read >Getting Value from CSR Reporting: Rogers & Burke
(PDF 2.2 MB) Read >Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines 3
(PDF 2 MB) Read >GRI Economic Indicators
(PDF 618 KB) Read >GRI Environmental Indicators
(PDF 1.7 MB) Read >GRI Human Rights Indicators
(PDF 524 KB) Read >GRI Labor Practices Decent Work Indicators
(PDF 932 KB) Read >GRI Product Responsibility Indicators
(PDF 521 KB) Read >GRI Society Indicators
(PDF 500 KB) Read >Quiet Revolution in Reporting: CERES
(PDF 122 KB) Read >Triple Bottom Line Reporting: L Musikanski
(PDF 1.9 MB) Read > - Socially Responsible Investing
- Supply Chain Management
Five Secrets of 21st Century Supply Chain
(PDF 1.3 MB) Read >Shipping and Logistics
Environmental Costs Rattling Supply Chains
(PDF 1.1 MB) Read >How Companies are Driving Down the Impacts of Shipping: Makower
(PDF 53 KB) Read >Supply Chain Optimization
Supply Chain Optimization Models: Dwight Collins
(PDF 127 KB) Read >Supply Chain Value: Gemi
(PDF 1.6 MB) Read >Vendor Engagement
BSR Beyond Monitoring Report
(PDF 141 KB) Read >Codes of Conduct: BSR
( 90 KB) Read >How to Create a Supplier Code of Ethics: B-Corporation
(PDF 73 KB) Read >Outdoor Industry Fair Labor Toolkit
(PDF 703 KB) Read >Sourcing Policy Example: Mountain Equipment Company
(PDF 17 KB) Read >WalMart Suppliers GHG Accountability
(PDF 893 KB) Read > - Sustainability Frameworks
A Roadmap for Natural Capitalism
(PDF 746 KB) Read >Business as Un-Usual by Mary Rose & Karl Ostrom
(PDF 590 KB) Read >Cradle-to-Cradel Concept
(PDF 220 KB) Read >Creating Sustainable Organization by Sara Schley and Joseph Laur
(PDF 176 KB) Read >Natural Capitalism, Chapter 1
(PDF 143 KB) Read >Natural Step: Duke Castle NBIS Presentation
(PDF 3.1 MB) Read >Organizational Sustainability: Darcy Hitchcock on NBIS Panel
(PDF 193 KB) Read >Systems Thinking Primer for Natural Capitalism: Peter Senge and Don Seville
(PDF 76 KB) Read >Systems Thinking: Bob Doppelt
(PDF 803 KB) Read >Systems__Doppelt_Overcoming Sustainability Blunders
(PDF 92 KB) Read >Total Corporate Responsibility Supported by Systems Change: F Dixon
(PDF 140 KB) Read > - Sustainable Development & Equity
Bottom of the Pyramid Debate with Prahalad response
(PDF 121 KB) Read >Business and Human Rights Management Report: Ethical Corporation
(PDF 584 KB) Read >Business Strategies Enhance Food Value Chains: World Economic Forum
(PDF 1.7 MB) Read >Leverage Market for Low Income People: Ford Foundation
(PDF 2.6 MB) Read >Making Infrastructure Work for the Poor: UN, Jahan & McCleery
(PDF 2.3 MB) Read >Marketing at the Bottom of the Pyramid: World Resource Institute
(PDF 10.9 MB) Read >Measuring Business Activity Impact: WBCSD
(PDF 2.7 MB) Read >Microfinance Misses Its Mark: Kamani
(PDF 69 KB) Read >Next Billions Unleashing Bottom of Pyramid Business Potential: World Economic Forum
(PDF 997 KB) Read >Partnering for Sustainability: World Economic Forum
(PDF 1.1 MB) Read >Report on Millenium Development Goals: UN
(PDF 3.5 MB) Read >UN Global Compact
(PDF 22 KB) Read >World Economic Forum 2009 Agenda
(PDF 9.5 MB) Read > - Tourism and Green Events
Greening Meetings and Conferences: EPA
(PDF 309 KB) Read > - Waste Management
