Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. 2011 WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces Awardees. 3,000 Companies Expelled from UN Global Compact in 7 Years. February 16, 2012 Real estate company Georgetown Green, support services firm Kent Global Security and office furniture supplier Humanscale are the latest U.S. firms to be expelled from the U.N.
Global Compact, as the program announces that its expulsions have reached 3,123 since 2005. The companies were expelled for failing to communicate progress on their efforts to implement the compact’s ten sustainability principles, in the areas of environment, human rights, labor and anti-corruption, the U.N. says. The chart above left shows the most recently expelled companies. The full list of expelled participants is available here. But the U.N. says the number of new companies joining the compact significantly exceeds the number of expulsions. The Global Compact is a voluntary initiative in which members pledge to make sustainability principles a part of their strategy, culture and day-to-day operations. The organization says the U.N. Global Impact Investing Rating System. Seal Recipients - Sustainable Business Institute. Allied Group is committed to providing sustainable services that are environmentally and socially responsible through the building and renovation of hotels, restaurants, conference centers, resorts and commercial interiors throughout the U.S.
A member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Allied Group has a company-wide initiative to get their entire project staff Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified. Allied Group has also registered the term SUSTAINovation®, which indicates that the renovations being performed have an environmental focus. Be Green Packaging, LLC designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes tree free compostable food containers for food service, deli, vegetable, meat, fish, and poultry industries.
Their state-of-the-art chemical-free pulping plant is one of the first of its kind. Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa is the world's first Gold level LEED certified hotel. {*style:<b>Puroast Coffee </b>*} Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR . Novo Nordisk Ranked World’s Most Sustainable Corporation. New Sustainability Champions. SB20: The World's Top Green Stocks. 2009 marks the eighth year for the SB20, which is presented in our green investing newsletter, Progressive Investor.
Each year, we work with a group of judges who are leading green stock analysts to select the companies. Learn more about green stocks to invest in or Subscribe to Progressive Investor. The purpose of the SB20 - the Sustainable Business 20 - is to showcase the most innovative, model companies that have the potential to greatly impact our ultimate goal of reaching a sustainable economy. The challenge we give our judges is to nominate, discuss and then vote on 20 companies that, through their products or initiatives, are contributing substantially to the advance of a sustainable economy. To be on the list, companies must be strong on both the green and financial sides. Over the years we've found the exercise of choosing only 20 companies has enabled us to zero in on the truly outstanding companies that stand head and shoulders above the crowd. SB20 Criteria. Google Jumps to 1st Place in Cool IT Climate Rankings.
Google has secured the top spot in Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard, with 53 points, up from 47 points and fourth place in the rankings’ last edition.
The search giant is followed by Cisco – down from 1st place – and a tie between Ericsson and Fujitsu. Oracle continues to bring up the rear, as it did when it debuted in the last version of the rankings. The leaderboard compares global IT companies on their efforts to fight climate change, with scores evaluating them in three categories: IT Climate Solutions, IT Energy Impact and Political Advocacy. Greenpeace says that since it first published the rankings in May 2009, it has seen companies steadily increase the number and strength of their products and services for managing energy.
Cisco, IBM, Ericsson and Fujitsu are all good examples of that, it says. At the same time, Greenpeace says companies have significantly reduced their efforts to advocate for policies that push investment in green technology.