From Compliance to Value Creation: The Changing Analytics of Sustainability

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More than 4,500 corporate social responsibility reports are produced each year. That number is growing though it is still small compared to the number of companies that could produce such a report. The reporting process can be a intensive (some would even say grueling) process of data gathering and analysis – one that leading analytics [...]

Analytics of Sustainability: A Fish Story

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This comes our way from Fast Company by way of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Exchange blog: someone is concerned about the carbon footprint of caviar. Well, the sturgeon that produce caviar to be more precise. It all swims around the largest effort ever to transport live fish. Sturgeon had to get from Germany to Abu [...]

Analytics and the Sustainable City

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Could analytics dramatically remake your water bill? That’s just one of the questions that came up this past week when I spent a day at a Sustainable Cities conference hosted by the Australian Trade Commission and others. We’ve wrestled with the analytics of sustainability on this blog before. We’ve debated various rankings and the value [...]

Rating the Rankings: The Latest in Sustainability Analytics

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A quick review of the many sustainability ratings and rankings makes it clear that it isn’t easy being sustainable — and it certainly isn’t easy to know who is best in class.

Getting “Green” Data

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Data on the actual performance of “green” retrofits is finally becoming available and could be a boon to understanding the analytics of sustainability.

2010 Looking Good for Analytics

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IIA members forecast a strong 2010 with increases in spending and hiring.

AT&T and the Analytics of Sustainability

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I saw an announcement today that AT&T has formed a sustainability council that includes representatives from AT&T, Cisco, the Carbon Disclosure Project, The Information Technology and Innovation Council, the University of Colorado at Denver, and the University of Texas at Austin. What’s of interest to us — and what we’ll be digging into further in [...]

Analytics and Sustainability, Part II

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Are the Newsweek green rankings a credible emerging standard or fancy greenwashing?

Analytics and Sustainability, Part I

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Ecologist Lawrence Slobodkin, who recently passed away, leaves lessons for analytics professionals in all fields.

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