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Is Texas Winning the Game on Renewables?
As the Covid-19 pandemic shatters the state’s oil and gas industry, solar energy production is on a trajectory for record growth. With intense sun and vast tracts of empty land that can accommodate a large scale of solar farms, West Texas is now rapidly developing in the solar energy sector. Texas’ free market approach […]
How do “green bonds” contribute to sustainable development?
Nikos Avlonas President and Founder of Center of Sustainability and Excellence Visiting Professor University of Illinois Not a new film of the popular series, a new type of bond known as “green bonds” are an investment tool which can, with what they generate, contribute to tackling climate change. As a consequence, more capital managers […]
Protests and the role of Corporations
By Rosalinda Sanquiche London, Madrid, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Pretoria – the globe is protesting racism, uniting in reaction to deep seated problems manifesting in the US. Companies are listening and reacting in ways which are important to Sustainability and aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This human crisis […]
Atlanta: what role can the city play to improve the state’s green status?
Do you consider Georgia a green state? According to the financial website Wallethub, Georgia has some work to do. Last year, in order to “highlight the greenest states and call out those doing a poor job of caring for the environment,” Wallethub analyzed all 50 states across three key dimensions: environmental quality, eco-friendly behaviors and climate change contributions. […]
Florida biodiversity suffering from climate change consequences.
Florida’s wildlife is without a doubt impacted by rising sea levels, warmer temperatures on land and in water, and changes in seasonal rainfall patterns and storm events as the climate changes. Species distributions, life cycles, and interactions between predators and preys will shift in response to accelerating climate change. Climate change is also expected to […]
2019 CSE Research finds Silicon Valley Geniuses are Sustainability Dullards
(Chicago, IL) ~The Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) announces its 2019 research into the state of Sustainability Strategy and Reporting in North America. Sustainability Reporting Trends in Silicon Valley 2019 is a follow-up to CSE’s 2016 research. Except for certain large multi-nationals, the report finds limited sustainability leadership from the world’s largest concentration of […]
From Investors Activism to Employees Activism – The Amazon case
The planned event will mark the first time in Amazon’s 25-year history that workers at the company’s headquarters have participated in a strike. Over the past year, tech workers across the country have walked out to protest a wide range of issues such as Google employees on sexual harassment issues and WayFair staff on immigration, now it’s Amazon’s […]
The ground-breaking French Law that challenge Multi-nationals for their transparency on Sustainability and CR issues in their Supply Chains
Nikos Avlonas President and Founder of Center of Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) During our lifetime there is a plethora of products that are produced in far way countries in conditions that are unknown to us – from clothing to electrical devices. Serious issues are being identified in multi-national supply chains that have global operations, particularly […]
What to Expect: Theory versus Practice
Part 2 in our series What to Expect from Sustainability Training Why take two days away from home, traveling to Houston or NYC, Seattle, Toronto, to take Sustainability Training? You can probably take a course at a local University, or even a degree. A quick glance indicates Higher Ed is teaching about the […]
NYC Sustainability Training Tackles the Hard Issues
The Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) thanks all of our participants at our sold-out New York training, June 6-7, 2019. The discussions were enlightening, and the key issues brought to the table critical. CSE’s Certified Sustainability (CSR) Practitioner Program, Advanced Edition 2019 is a challenging, two-day training providing the latest practical tools and […]