It’s Time to Give Up Spreadsheets for Tracking Carbon Emissions
By: Paul Baier
CFOs, CIOs and sustainability teams at large companies have used spreadsheets for years to track corporate carbon emissions.
We are now, however, at a tipping point where the benefits of carbon management software, also known as enterprise carbon accounting (ECA) software, outweigh the benefits of spreadsheets.
Industry-Wide Eco Index Will Rate Apparel on Sustainability
BY Ariel Schwartz
Judging by the recent actions of companies like Walmart and Samsung, sustainability indexes (aka green supply chain rating systems) are the next big thing in corporate social responsibility. So it isn’t all that surprising that a group of 100 retailers and apparel brands are joining together to form an industry-wide Eco Index—a software-based tool that allows companies to track product impacts through a series of questions on labor and environmental efforts.
View the powerful images of Zerofootprint-sponsored pygmy women in the first ever Run for Congo Women in Congo. View the pictures on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks to Sonya Melescu for taking such beautiful photos!
Passage of the 900-page 2010 Budget Bill C-9 includes controversial changes to federal environmental assessment process
Last night Canada’s Senate passed the omnibus federal government budget bill (Bill C-9), with previously deleted sections reinstated that some environmental groups fear will weaken the federal environmental assessment review process.
Science City Stores Warm Air from Summer to Heat Buildings in Winter, by Sarah Parsons
Humans are pretty temperature-sensitive creatures, which means we use a ton of power every year through heating and air-conditioning systems. But imagine if there were a way to save the summer’s hot air and use it to heat buildings throughout the winter.
CDP and GRI Collaborate For More Streamlined CSR Disclosure
By Leon Kaye
Last week the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) released a linkage document that demonstrates the growing collaboration between the two organizations. The 16-page document outlines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporters can use or adapt the same data for both reporting processes.
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Check out the progress of our partnership with Working Villages International to plant 23,000 trees and 3,000 fruit trees in the Ruzizi Valley in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Join the Barrie Run for Pole Pole! Support the Pole Pole Foundation, a Democratic Republic of Congo based not-for-profit with a focus on ape conservation. Join the 10k run/walk organized by Canadian volunteer Michelle DeJardine in Barrie, Ontario.
Michelle was inspired after hearing activist Lisa Shannon speak about the Zerofootprint Foundation’s projects supporting Pole Pole at our event in May. Through the Barrie Run for Pole Pole, donations are being collected to build schools and hire teachers for the children of Kahuzi Biega park rangers who protect their natural habitat.
Read the story of women from a Congolese pygmy village who participate in Run for Congo Women in the August 2010 issue of Runner’s World (PDF). Traditionally excluded from the larger society, Zerofootprint sponsored these women to partake in Women for Women’s vocational training programs, the first time they had been integrated with other Congolese women.
Zerofootprint congratulates the 16,400 students from around the world who have used the iEARN Youth Calculator. Together, you have pledged to reduce your personal carbon emissions by over 10,000 tonnes - a remarkable achievement!
Read the story of women from a Congolese pygmy village who participate in 
