Archive for category Consumption
Project 10 to the 100th
Posted by Michael Opperman in Consumption, Economy, Environment, Ethics, Google, Solutions on October 6, 2009
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More on Newsweek’s Green Corporate Rankings (thanks to Joel Makower)
Posted by Michael Opperman in Business Models, Consumption, Economy, Environment, Ethics on September 22, 2009
“The Newsweek rankings assess the S&P 500 — the 500 largest publicly held companies that trade on either the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, the two largest American stock markets — on three metrics:
1) an “environmental impact score,” based on more than 700 metrics, compiled by Trucost, a leading provider of data and analysis on company emissions and natural resource use;
2) a “green policies score,” an analysis of corporate policies and initiatives by KLD Research & Analytics, one of the pioneers in socially responsible investing research; and
3) a “reputation survey score” resulting from a survey of CEOs, corporate environmental officers, and academics conducted by CorporateRegister.com, an online directory of company-issued CSR, sustainability, and environment reports from around the world.
Each company’s score, and thus its ranking, was based on a weighted average of those three components: 45% for the impact score, 45% for the policies score, and 10% for the reputation score.”