SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights February 26, 2014

Top Story of the Week

Four Top Sustainability Reporting Trends for 2014
(Friday - February 21, 2014)
Source: GreenBiz - At most companies, work on 2013 sustainability reports is well underway. But it's not too late to take stock and assess whether you're giving enough consideration to four major issues recently cited by Ernst & Young: materiality...

Sustainability in Focus

Is sustainability top of your agenda in 2014?
(Tuesday - February 18, 2014)
Source: C&IT - Sustainability – it’s either a buzzword or a meaningless catchphrase, depending on which side of the debate you come from. But, whether you knit your own muesli or you are a climate-change naysayer, nobody can deny that...

Leith Sharp: Embracing “disruptive sustainability
(Friday - February 21, 2014)
Source: McGill Reporter - As director, Sharp built the largest green campus organization in the world. The program’s efforts were funded largely by the savings it produced – the essence of sustainability.

California rises in sustainability grades  
(Friday - February 21, 2014)
Source: UT San Diego - California greatly increased its ranking last year in the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED certification program, rising from ninth to fifth place. And San Diego County outperformed all top 10 states on a per-capita basis.

Sustainability is now non-negotiable say delegates to the 2014 Sustainable Events Summit
(Wednesday - February 19, 2014)
Source: Event Industry News - Sustainability is part of a concept called trust and it’s for this reason people buy from us.” This quote from Speaker Dan Germain, Head of Creative at Innocent, sums up one of the over-riding reasons for embarking on the...

Sustainable water funding remains high priority
(Thursday - February 20, 2014)
Source: Beatrice Daily Sun - Last year, the Legislature passed LB 517, which created the Nebraska Water Funding Task Force. I was appointed to serve on the task force, which met throughout the interim. The task force was to focus on the long-term.

This is just a sample of some of the articles from this weeks SustainabilityHQ Highlights.  You can view the full Highlights by using the following links. Sustainability | ESG, Highlights for the Week of February 26, 2014