Exploring Organizational Approaches to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
UPS allows customers to pay an additional fee when shipping a package to compensate for their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of fuel over the course of transportation for that package. That fee then goes towards funding a project that will offset greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane capture at a landfill or growing a forest in an effort to make the transportation of that package “carbon neutral”...
Fuji Heavy Industry, the parent company of Subaru, first inquired about the feasibility of achieving zero waste at their Indiana manufacturing plant in 2002. Two years later, Subaru had successfully become America’s first “zero landfill” auto maker. Their website states: “Since May 2004, Subaru’s United States manufacturing plants have not sent a single thing to any landfill. 100% of manufacturing waste is either recycled or turned into electricity".....
Kaiser Permanente is an Oakland-based healthcare provider founded in 1945 with operations in eight states. With 10.2 million health plan members and 186,497 employees, Kaiser Permanente experiences unique opportunities in attempting to address sustainability within their organization. One such opportunity that large organizations may utilize for sustainability is leveraging relationships along their supply chain in the form of environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP)...
On May 14th, 2015 the University of Washington board of regents voted to divest all endowment funds, approximately $2 billion, from companies whose primary profit comes from burning coal for energy creation...
Conservation easements emerged in the 1990s as a vehicle for private land conservation in which property owners placed a legally enforced mandate on their land to restrict certain types of development in perpetuity...
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is a nonprofit that created the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) as a sustainability self-reporting framework for universities and colleges...
