February 4, 2012

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 [...]

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