In my unfruitful quest for corporate sustainability models, I stumbled across your group and am hoping you might be able to help. I am a graduate student and...
All: This is just a brief reminder that on May 28-30, we will be conducting a Social Footprint Masterclass in Burlington, VT. The Social Footprint is the...
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Hello All: This is just a quick note to inform you of our next Social Footprint Masterclass, which will be held on September 24-26 in beautiful Burlington,...
All: As some of you may know, researchers at Carnegie Mellon recently published an article in the Aug. 15 issue of Environmental Science & Technology...
Mark, This is quite good. Perhaps you should blog it. In fact, a blog may be useful in promoting your work on sustainability. Best, Joe ... From: "Mark W....
Joe: Thank you. Please note that my reference to the "GRI" Greenhouse Gas Protocol should have been to the "WRI" Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Regards, Mark Mark...
Dear Friends: I'm writing to call your attention to an upcoming sustainability event in New York later this month (Oct. 29th), where I will be speaking on...
All: I had an experience with a client recently that is worth sharing. We've been working with a new metric that deals with the sustainability of water use,...
Mark, I agree and think your reasoning is flawless, if a bit complicated, due to being cast in the triple bottom line framework. Long ago, I began to think...
Mark, Thanks for sharing this interesting case. I enjoyed both your critique and Joe's subsequent analysis. I tend to agree specifically with Joe's commentary...
Interesting situation Mark - a great example of how one cannot expect a simple metric to gauge the health of a system or operation. The per capita approach is...
Mark, At present organizational progress, or the lack of it, is measured against indicators associated with each of the three bottom lines of sustainability....
Dear Henk: Nice to hear from you again. I have actually given the scenario you described some thought recently, as it does raise some questions about the...
Dear Friends: In my world, at least, one of the Holy Grails of corporate sustainability measurement and reporting has long been the quest for an index of...
Thanks, Joe. Very thoughtful of you. Mark Mark W. McElroy, Ph.D. Executive Director Center for Sustainable Innovation www.sustainableinnovation.org (802)...
Hi Mark, Congratulations on this thinking also. The idea of a context based sustainability index appears to be quite novel, new, and timely. When I have some...
Dear Friends and Colleagues: As some of you are already aware, we have been working on the development of a context-based, triple bottom line index for ...
Dear Friends and Colleagues, At no time in history have we been at such a pivotal point where radical change and sustainable innovation are needed -- many are ...
Hi all! I have started Phd on the above mentioned topic on indian corporates. Can anyone suggest some useful studies regarding disclosure indexes and send them...
Dear Friends: Earlier this week, we (CSI) issued a press release regarding an award we received from the State of Vermont for our general approach to Triple...
Mark: You suggest I look closer...is the "Re-Casting" document the place to look? Or is there another source? If the bottom lines are going to multiply, then...
Chris: Thanks for joining in. As you might imagine, where to look depends on what the specific issue is. It's a big topic with many dimensions. Our body of...
All: Back in 2004, Chris MacDonald and his co-author, Wayne Norman, wrote: "Ultimately, we argue there are fundamental philosophical grounds for thinking that...
Mark: Thanks. I still feel like -- having looked at the relevant documents -- I'm lacking a good, clear, simple example of how the aggregation is supposed to...
Chris: I agree with you. That's why I say on slide 35 that individual sub- bottom line scores can be weighted. You're free to weight them any way you like....
Mark: In financial accounting, the footnotes matter, and judgment is called for, but you still have a single unit -- the dollar -- to work with. Assets (in...
Chris: The issue you raise is not with the method, it is with whether or not people can agree (or have agreed) on a weighting scheme, and also on specific...
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