Blog: February 2012 Posts

February 27, 2012 - 3:17 PM
Setting Meaningful Corporate Sustainability Goals
Timothy Greiner (1992)

One of the questions that came up on our webinar (see WEBINAR: Greening Stonyfield Farm, broadcast Febrary 17, 2012) was how to set corporate sustainability goals - be they energy, greenhouse gas, waste, product sustainability or packaging? How do we ensure the goals are stretch goals? Who should set the goals? What time frame should the goals cover?

There is no single answer to these questions because companies going into a planning/goal setting process are all in different places. But if it's the first time the business has been really asked...

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February 20, 2012 - 10:19 AM
[WEBINAR] Greening Stonyfield Farm with Tim Greiner (Switzer Foundation Webinar Series)
Lauren Hertel (2003)

As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner discusses efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He describes the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome, and the environmental and financial savings the company has seen as a result of these efforts.

He answers questions including:

  • What are the key steps to establishing a sustainability vision for a company?
  • How do you integrate responsibility for sustainability initiatives into core business processes such as manufacturing,...
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February 8, 2012 - 2:46 PM
GreenTRIP's plan for provisional parking and creating new models for carshare system expansion
Stuart Cohen (1996)

Editor's Note: Stuart Cohen and Ann Cheng presented TransForm's GreenTRIP program during a webinar on January 11, 2012. This blog post follows up on several points and questions made during that presentation. You can find out more about Stuart Cohen and Transform, as well as sign up for updates about the program, at our Switzer Network News report page.

Thanks so much to the Switzer Foundation for supporting our...

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February 7, 2012 - 8:30 PM
Clean energy prices (not the sky) falling in California
Laura Wisland (2007)

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released a report this week on the costs of California’s progress in generating more electricity from renewable power and there was good news. Prices of new contract bids submitted to utilities last year were about 30 percent lower than in 2009, according to the report, signaling a more competitive future for the renewable power industry in California.

Until now, the CPUC has released quarterly reports on the number of contracts signed by utilities toward meeting California’s goal of...

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