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Suzanne Pinckney

General Mills Announces Commitment to Sustainability - 0 views

  • Input costs for GMO farming just keep rising — seed costs, pesticide costs. I just don’t think it’s sustainable.” He chuckled: “There you go — it’s all about sustainability. Economic sustainability in this case.”
  • GM seed can enable irresponsible farmers to work fast and dirty across huge stretches of land. A farmer could make a lot of money by simply planting GM corn every year and spraying liberally with glyphosate. On the other hand, a responsible farmer can use GM traits sparingly as a tool for land stewardship.
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    I find it kind of ridiculous to 'commit to sustainability' while continuing to use GMOs
Suzanne Pinckney

When It Comes to CSR, Size Matters - Forbes - 0 views

  • t rests on the recognition that attention to corporate social and environmental responsibilities is generally in the long-term economic interests of the firm.
  • Managers have a responsibility to consider those affected by company actions; equally, however, those stakeholders are often able to exert pressure on a company if it does not—even to the extent of shutting down the business, as Coca-Cola found in Kerala.  This is particularly true for large companies subject to intense media scrutiny.
  • When companies implement “strategic CSR” they can find there are many benefits, including strengthened corporate and brand reputations and enhanced trust with key stakeholders (customers, employees, regulatory agencies, suppliers, and investors), improved risk management, increased revenues from innovation to identify new business opportunities, and reduced costs from efficiency improvements. 
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  • profound differences in commitment to corporate purpose. 
  • This close involvement of owners and founders in SMEs means that commitment to purpose is much easier to engender than in a large, publicly-held corporation. 
  • more personal. 
  • SMEs increasingly find that they are part of a value chain where a large company downstream (for example, a major brand or a retailer) is demanding attention by suppliers to sustainability metrics and performance.
  • ikely to mean that less funds are available to invest in initiatives that might be socially or environmentally beneficial, especially if the economic pay-off is less obvious or longer term.
  • SMEs might also be less able to bring to scale the efficiency gains that can come from attention to CSR or exploit the business opportunities that might come through innovation in the form of new, more sustainable products. 
  • In sum, while size matters, not least in what gets done, SMEs have many of the same reasons for engaging in CSR that large companies have, both in avoiding downside risk and in exploiting upside opportunities.  In many cases, they may also be more intrinsically, if not better motivated, to give CSR attention.
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    biz case for our biz! susty works and is necessary at any size :)
Suzanne Pinckney

Women in CSR: Cecily Joseph, Symantec - 0 views

  • 3p: If you had the power to make one major change at your company or in your industry, what would it be? CJ: I’d like to see more software and technology companies work collaboratively on solving social issues. We’re all working separately on issues that are very important, but imagine the impact we could have if we committed to working together
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    great interview questions (and answers); useful for our own interviews
Suzanne Pinckney

Driving sustainable transformation via the power of design | Guardian Sustainable Busin... - 0 views

  • Shaw Industries, an early adopter of cradle-to-cradle principles, is committed to making only C2C certified products by 2030. Currently more than 60% of its $4bn in total annual sales comes from certified carpet and hardwood flooring.
  • Numerous benefits accrue from values-first leadership. It clarifies and broadens, in the best way, how a company views itself. It changes how others view it. The products the company sells, its way of doing things and, indeed, its very existence, can be a living testimony to its support for a world of prosperity, social equity and environmental health.
  • most successful companies embrace good design by loudly and clearly stating their positive intentions.
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  • When a CEO declares that his or her company will improve the water quality of an entire community or build a workplace that will generate more renewable energy than it requires, this statement alone can unleash enthusiasm, creativity and innovation
  • . It stresses the good, such as 'we will use and generate only renewable energy,' rather than the more common
Suzanne Pinckney

Don't Spin a Better Story. Be a Better Company - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • We started by encouraging the organization to get out of its defensive crouch and listen to its critics. It wasn’t easy to open up to the outside, but the learning opportunity was clear. Ten NGO leaders around the table bring you 100 years of experience.
  • Implementing recently announced energy initiatives will eventually save $1 billion a year.
  • Walmart gets its story out better these days. But the reason the story resonates is that it’s a story of real change.
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  • So here’s my advice: If a drumbeat of criticism starts up against your company, don’t rush to raise your voice above it. Stop to listen. And commit to getting better.
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