Despite all the attention corporations give it, “greening” efforts have been mixed at best. Such are the finding of the most recent State of Green Business report. The authors found that more companies were doing more things, but moving the needle of environmental progress only slightly, if at all.
If your customers were scoring your commitment to sustainable design, how would you fare? Do you want to know? A new website https://www.projectlabel.org/ invites visitors to rank companies according to various social and environmental criteria, including “people” issues such as community impact and worker treatment as well as “planet” issues such as waste management and treatment of animals.
If you are a corporation doing business in the public sector and you are not vigilantly defining your environmental position, do not be shocked when others define it for you.