Successful businesses are those that plan for long-term, sustainable development, taking into account the social and environmental impacts of their activities.
This means considering the effect of every part of your business on the environment and society. Simply put, your business should have minimal negative effect on the wider world.
Taking a sustainable approach will typically be [...]

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By Peter Korchnak*
A while ago someone asked me whether my business card was printed on recycled paper. Yes, it is, I replied.
Why, then, the response went, is there nowhere on my card a corresponding symbol to be seen?
And, what if, when deciding whether to keep the card or do business with my company, a prospect [...]

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By Carolyn Mansfield*
As companies emerge from recession-induced hibernation, shake off hiring freezes, and start to cautiously advertise job openings again, they’re finding an entirely different landscape than when they did their last round of recruiting.
The holy grail for job seekers? A meaningful, green job.
Many factors have swirled together to create this phenomenon: unemployment rates around [...]

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By Robert Pojasek*
Organizations with a formal sustainability management system have to deal with corrective and preventive actions — often referred to as CAPAs.
Most management systems aficionados are well aware of the need to engage in corrective actions as a means of dealing with nonconformities in the system. However, the preventive actions are often relegated to [...]

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By Matthew Wheeland*
Africa figured prominently in the world of green IT this week, as two of the industry’s biggest players announced ways to address significant environmental issues on that content — issues that IT itself is both a cause of and can be a solution to.
On addressing IT as a cause of pollution, Hewlett-Packard published [...]

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