CSRHub

CSE is a leading global sustainability (CSR) consulting, coaching, and training firm. CSE is offering a two day Certified Sustainability (CSR) Practitioner Training. This IEMA Approved challenging 2-day course enables participants to acquire the skills and competencies required to become qualified CSR practitioners. Learn more about the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 new sustainability reporting guidelines!

CSRHub is a self-admitted geek with degrees in physics and astronomy, and a Harvard MBA (where we met) and he knows his regression. He looked at F values. He split the data in two groups. Tested the combined effect of outliers. He tested for spurious relationships. He ran regressions with third factors such as enterprise value and market cap. Over all these trials, the correlation holds. 28% of brand strength is related to CSR performance.

CSRHub is the largest and most comprehensive database of CSR and sustainability-related information. Our goal is to foster access to sustainability and corporate social responsibility information.

Cynthia Figge is a forerunner, thought leader and speaker on the corporate sustainability movement. As the co-founder and COO of CSRHub, Cynthia's team provides free corporate sustainability ratings on over 7,300 publicly-traded and private companies worldwide. In addition to CSRHub, Cynthia is the co-founder of EKOS International, one of the first consultancies to integrate sustainability and corporate strategy. She has crafted corporate sustainability strategies for a host of major organizations, including BNSF, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Dow Jones, and REI. Cynthia also serves as an advisor to SNS Future in Review, Board Director of Compassionate Action Network, and served as President of the Board of Sustainable Seattle. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prior speaking engagements in corporate responsibility have included SRI Basecamp, Future in Review, Sustainable Brands, and SRI in the Rockies.

They might just be. They are definitely tracking together towards acceptance. Both movements have moved from being unrealistic to increasingly legitimate if not inevitable. Both supposedly impossible-to-implement issues are finding solutions. And both shift our balance as a society from one tilted towards competition and violence to one based on co-operation and kindness.

If someone ever told you that a handful of people can't make a difference, he or she hasn't met the five hardworking moms who started the Food and Tray Waste Composting Pilot in District 3 schools on the Upper West Side of New York City. What began with the moms' concern for making their own children's schools more environmentally sustainable has evolved into a citywide effort to reduce waste and educate future generations.

CSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on 7,000+ companies from 135 industries in 91 countries. By aggregating and normalizing the information from 200 data sources, CSRHub has created a broad, consistent rating system and a searchable database that links millions of rating elements back to their source. Managers, researchers and activists use CSRHub to benchmark company performance, learn how stakeholders evaluate company CSR practices and seek ways to change the world.

CSRHub members can enjoy a 40% discount to the following conference by selecting the "BBB Accredited Businesses and National Partners, Event Supporters, and Charities" option when registering.

Also, if you missed our Fall 2012 Webinar Series, it is now available for a limited time at a 40% discount: SEC ESG Compliance Where the Rubber Meets the This Series provides the first-ever in-depth explanation of SEC ESG Requirements, Liabilities, and Risks for the C-Suite, the Board, the External Auditor, and the Asset Manager.

Bloomberg released its projections for renewables, citing 230% growth by 2030. Bloomberg's chief executive of New Energy Finance Michael Liebreich adds, "What it suggests is that we are beyond the tipping point towards a cleaner energy future."

Leading providers of sustainability information services CSRHub and CRedit360 are pleased to announce a new partnership. Through the collaboration, CSRHub and CRedit360 will provide an integrated service that allows CRedit360 users to incorporate organizational benchmarking data from the world's largest database of sustainability ratings directly into their CRedit360 sustainability performance management solution.

But assuming that the maximum additional carbon the earth can absorb is 565 gigatons of CO2 and that study after study predicts that "carbon emissions will grow by roughly three percent a year.

CSRHub is pleased to announce the launch of our partnership with Brand Finance, the world's leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy. Most experts agree that corporate sustainability is an important component of brand value.

The recent release of the Carbon Disclosure Project CDP lgo(CDP) 2013 Investor Information Request and scoring methodology has spurred interest in organizations looking to improve their CDP scores.

Our friends at Agrion organized a Sustainability Summit last week. About 250 people gold w captiongathered in New York to discuss various aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability practice.

It seems that the Governor has now decided to postpone his decision, yet again. Once more unusual pressures may have been ads run in Iowa by anti-fracking activists.

And yet only a few weeks before Obama's speech, Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, sounded much more pessimistic.

CSRHub CEO and Co-founder Bahar Gidwani will be speaking at the Agrion Energy Summit & Sustainability Meeting, February 19-20, 2013, in New York, NY. Joining Bahar's conference panel, Materiality of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Factors and Data Transparency, will be:

CSRHub CEO and Co-founder Bahar Gidwani will be speaking at the Agrion Energy Summit & Sustainability Meeting, February 19-20, 2013, in New York, NY.  Joining Bahar's conference panel, Materiality of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Factors and Data Transparency, will be:

Cynthia Figge, Board Director of Compassionate Action Network, invites you to end your work week by joining us for a conversation about compassion in business with Anil Sachdev, founder and CEO of the School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon, India.