Exploring Organizational Approaches to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
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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".....
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...
