Business Management - Sustainability

Lessons Drawn From Precedent-Setting Forest Agreement
March 14, 2017 at 8:09 am

Just over one year ago, Canopy witnessed the official announcement of the completion of the precedent-setting Great Bear Rainforest Agreements. The Agreements were the outcome of two decades of conflict, compromise, negotiation, persistence and American paper and forest product customer engagement.

Top Five Greenwashers: Company #1 – American Water
February 28, 2017 at 8:32 am

In 2017, Two Sides North America is redoubling its commitment to holding companies to accurate and verifiable claims regarding the environmental footprint or “greenness” of paper-based versus electronic communications. As you know, we’ve already had tremendous success by working with leading Fortune 100 corporations to remove or change misleading anti-paper marketing messages, and avoid greenwashing consumers. As part of our renewed commitment we’re going to start highlighting the “Top Five Greenwashers” in this blog space.

The Carbon Footprint of Email (Is Quite Large!)
February 1, 2017 at 11:48 am

Establishing the exact amount of the CO2 produced by sending an email includes many variables: the energy it takes to move the email across the Internet, process it, view it, store it, reread it and, after some time, delete it. One email may indeed produce an insignificant amount of CO2 but when all those tiny footprints are measured at a global scale, the footprint becomes astonishing in size.