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Will Wind for Prosperity Take Off and Provide Investors With a Return?

written by Walter Wang

Launched in November of 2013, Vestas’ Wind for Prosperity program was the subject of a dynamic panel at the World Future Energy Summit during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week this week.

The Wind for Prosperity program is a commercially based program that aims to deliver a hybrid energy

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January 21, 2014 1 comment
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Is Amazon Beginning to Embrace CSR?

written by Walter Wang

Most major companies have embraced the power of CSR to drive brand affinity while also effecting tangible positive social and environmental impact, but some corporations remain conspicuously absent from the CSR landscape. Amazon.com, dubbed by its own hometown as a “corporate scrooge,” is one of those companies notably turning a blind eye to

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November 5, 2013 0 comment
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When the Road to Sustainability Doesn’t Happen on a Road

written by Walter Wang

Behind electricity, transportation is the second largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to the EPA. Twenty-seven percent of those transportation-related GHG emissions are attributed directly to freight trucks and commercial aircrafts. Companies across the spectrum, from major industrial manufacturers to CPGs, are finding new

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July 22, 2013 0 comment
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CSR’s Coming of Age

written by Walter Wang

Either popular perception or conventional wisdom or a little bit of both used to suggest that corporate social responsibility (CSR) was more or less a pure marketing ploy used by brands to increase their market share. Put another way, were brands merely paying lip service to this notion that corporations should be socially responsible. At the Sustainable

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June 21, 2013 0 comment
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ROI Influencing Social Media Engagement for Sustainability

written by Walter Wang

Common comments and concerns we encounter within our sustainability consulting are that specific sustainability concepts are too expensive or simply do not apply to a given business model or industry. Simply put, in the business world, action must generate return to be sustainable.

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March 1, 2013 0 comment
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Social Media as Value Creation for Sustainable Businesses

written by Walter Wang

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, foursquare, blogging, the social web– we no longer just communicate; we interact. In the process, how can the wealth of information being generated by social media help us better understand business sustainability value creation?

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September 6, 2012 1 comment
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Five Company Experts You Need for a Good Sustainability Report

written by Walter Wang

Producing a corporate sustainability report (CSR) is a team sport. The stronger the team is, the stronger the report will be. Each player needs to bring specific expertise that is complementary to the team as a whole. So, it is important to recruit and rally the key experts that can deliver what you need to make the company’s report a success. Choose carefully

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August 31, 2012 0 comment
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Smaller Market Telecoms Companies Struggle to Compete on Sustainability

written by Walter Wang

A new report on sustainability in the U.S. telecoms market finds that leading telecoms providers outperform their smaller competitors in sustainability performance and sustainable products and services offerings.

The report, issued by independent analyst firm

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August 3, 2012 0 comment
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Planes, Trains and Supply Chains: Bombardier’s Holistic View of Sustainable Transportation

written by Walter Wang

“I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.” — Gaylord Nelson, April 1990[1]

Unless something really amazing happens in the next

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July 30, 2012 0 comment
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New Research Reveals Wealthy Consumer Habits Toward Social Responsibility

written by Walter Wang

The Luxury Institute has published a new report mapping out consumer behavior by those with higher incomes, starting from $150,000 per year. Called Corporate Social Responsibility: The Wealthy Consumer’s Viewpoint, the report reveals that Americans with higher spending power value socially responsible corporate behavior, rate companies and

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July 5, 2012 0 comment
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Engage to Change: Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan Seeks to Shift Consumer Behavior

written by Walter Wang

April was a busy month for one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. A year into its Sustainable Living Plan, the company released its 2011 progress report, and hosted global in-person meetings and a 24-hour live online Sustainable Living Lab, facilitated by GlobeScan. All this activity managed to generate a lot of buzz and rightfully so.

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May 1, 2012 2 comments
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Network for Business Sustainability Shares Insights Into Decision-Making in Sustainability

written by Walter Wang

Corporate social responsibility has quickly evolved over the years, from changing light bulbs to strategically embedding sustainability into business operations. CSR has not been part of the boardroom conversation for very long – at least not in Canada – and so progress made among a growing number of companies is encouraging. That being said, business

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April 27, 2012 0 comment
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Big Business, Little Splash – Tackling the World Water Crisis

written by Walter Wang

About 2.4 billion people live in water-stressed countries, according to a report by the Pacific Institute. Water demand in the next two decades will double in India to 1.5 trillion cubic meters and rise 32% in China to 818 billion cubic meters, according to the 2030 Water Resources Group. China is home to

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April 18, 2012 0 comment
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What Drives the Business Case for CSR?

written by Walter Wang

One of the ways the business case is determined is that each region, country or community has a different combination of CSR drivers. I will start with the five typical CSR drivers that are local (or internal) drivers, namely pressures from within the country or community.

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April 11, 2012 0 comment
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