State of Green Business Report 2011
The fourth annual edition of theGreenbiz
target=”_blank”>State of Green Business report measures
the environmental impacts of the emerging green economy. The report
documents how well – or poorly – companies are improving their
environmental performance despite the challenges posed by the Great
Recession, and begin to note promising signs for a sea change in
corporate sustainability efforts.
The free, downloadable report measures the progress of U.S.
business and the economy from an environmental perspective, and
highlights key trends in corporate culture in regard to the
environment.
This year’s report shows a dramatic shift is occurring in
mainstream business: Companies are thinking bigger and longer-term
about sustainability – a an analysis of businesses in 2010 shows
that even during economically challenging times, many companies
invested more in their sustainability activities and made bold new
sustainability commitments. For example:
target=”_blank”>Proctor & Gamble made a commitment to
power all of their factories with renewable energy within the next
ten years;
target=”_blank”>FedEx committed to improve vehicle fuel
efficiency by 20 percent by 2020;
target=”_blank”>Walmart pledged to sell $1 billion of fresh
produce sourced from 1000 small- and medium-sized farmers;
target=”_blank”>Hasbro promised that 75 percent of its
paperboard packaging will come from recycled materials in 2011
The report follows on the in-depth daily editorial output of
GreenBiz.com, tracking the big-picture sustainability trends that
corporations are adopting, while also digging in to hard data to
measure whether or not those companies, and the U.S. as a whole,
are making any real progress.
The results, as evidenced by the GreenBiz Index, show a mixed bag:
While some green practices are strongly swimming – notably, paper
use and recycling, investments in cleantech, and the growth of LEED
– there are many others that are simply treading water or
sinking.
The 2011 report is the centerpiece of GreenBiz.com’s State of Green
Business Forums. The two-day events will take place in San
Francisco on February 2-3, Chicago on February 9-10, and
Washington, D.C., February 16-17
target=”_blank”>The report can be downloaded from
here
Source: Greenbiz
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