Steve Pinetti, senior vice president of the hotel group, explained how sound environmental practices are now much more commonplace than when Kimpton began its sustainability program.
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We have transparency about vision, about how things are done, about even how we think about our business in terms of our supply chain and our sustainability program.
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When times are bad and companies are laying off parts of the workforce, the sustainability program can be seen as non-essential business in the eyes of the people making the cuts.
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The July-August edition, entitled Doing Our Part, not only contains our 10-page summary of the report but many stories that reflect the work of our store teams and additional information for them about our sustainability program.
Does sustainability mean not that a program is built to last but that our enthusiasm for going from crisis to crisis is infinite, always ready to propose another feel-good solution that can only lead to the next crisis?
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Doug Guthrie, dean of the George Washington University School of Business, is planning to draw on expertise in the university's psychology and philosophy departments to teach business ethics and he'll seek help from the engineering program to address sustainability.
The Town Hall meetings were designed to collect ideas on efficiencies and cost-savings while improving overall consumer care, streamlining program delivery and stabilizing the program to ensure long-term sustainability.
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The schools would develop an annual program based around a series of sustainability themes and work with government, community and private sector partners to develop school activities around these themes including special events, lesson content, competitions and exchanges between the schools.
Debbie Baxter, Chief Sustainability Officer for LoyaltyOne, a global corporation that is best known in Canada as the operators of the AIR MILES Reward Program, believes that Canadians care about sustainability, diversity and innovation.
These include STI's Sustainable Tourism Eco-Certification Program (STEP) and the Voluntary Initiative for Sustainability in Tourism (VISIT) in Europe.
The Fed felt so sure of the sustainability of the recovery that it decided to halt its year long program of buying mortgage-backed securities, and signaled that it would probably begin draining excess reserves from the financial system sometime very soon.
"Our hope is that we can be the central clearinghouse about campus sustainability, " says Laura Matson, who's managing the rating program at AASHE.
What if companies jumped into game dynamics, not for an external marketing program but as a means to motivate their internal workforce towards sustainability goals?
What makes this program unique is the relative ease it offers for companies to begin their sustainability journey by focusing on easier-to-measure energy efficiency initiatives.
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The Corps is a unique internship program that connects business school students with companies who want to initiate a discussion of sustainability, with an emphasis on energy efficiency.
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Finally, CA Technologies has created a Sustainability Advisory Council at the senior executive level of the company, and now have Board oversight of the program.
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In developing its infrastructure program for Africa, the African Development Bank has run carbon cost scenarios and used environmental and social sustainability as part of its selection criteria.
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