3BL Blogs

The 3BL Media blog roll is a select list of the most influential, respected, and authoritative voices in corporate social responsibility. Compiled from the 3BL Media staff’s extensive contacts with longtime CSR commentators, these bloggers offer relevant news, opinions, and ideas about all things CSR in one convenient place.

Videos from this campaign

Content from this campaign

Environment

Forget RBIs. I’m Keeping Score of CSR During the World Series
While most fans are watching player performance or yucking it up over the lack of respect suffered by the Cubs and Indians for generations, I’m keeping an eye on the fall classic for social and environmental sidebars.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainability Beyond the Photo Op
One of the perks of attending sustainability and corporate social responsibility events is exposure to business leaders who are genuinely excited about the way their organizations are making the world a better place.

Increasingly, I’m encountering senior executives who encourage their peers to look closely at CSR programs to make sure they have adequate scale to actually make a difference, and that they connect to a company’s mission.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Analysts Mum on Sustainability During Earnings Calls
Questions from sell-side stock analysts about corporate sustainability issues remain few and far between on the quarterly earnings conference calls held by publicly traded companies.

More and more institutional investors, however, are digging deep into voluminous sustainability reports to gain a strategic advantage.

Those are some of the observations shared this week during the Bloomberg BNA Sustainability Business Summit in New York.

Energy

Offshore Wind Power, From Rhode Island to Copenhagen
For the past couple of summers, our family has watched as construction workers ferried back and forth between Rhode Island’s Point Judith and a wind farm being built off nearby Block Island.

We knew the turbines would be spinning soon when the main highway traversing the peninsula was gouged to make way for a cable that would bring ashore any surplus electricity not consumed by Block Island residents and businesses.

Events, Media & Communications

‘Purpose is like Pokemon,’ contends Mr. Goodvertising
Corporate branding executives are not unlike the lovable cartoon oaf battling with his alter ego, contents Tom Kolster, author and founder of the Danish creative agency Goodvertising.

“You have a mission and a vision, and then introduce a purpose – a third thing. How are you ever going to move forward with that?” he asked 450 attendees at Sustainable Brands in Copenhagen.

Environment

University of California's "Audacious" Climate Action Plan
If the University of California was a state, it would be the 15th largest.

The annual budget for UC is 20 times larger than Arizona, where Janet Napolitano was governor from 2003 to 2009.

Energy

Powering Data Centers with Renewable Energy

Events, Media & Communications

Top Four Reasons to Attend a CSR or Sustainability Conference This Fall
Professional development events exist for just about every career, and they’ve been around since Thomas Edison held his first, “How to Change a Light Bulb” seminar for aspiring electricians (attendees earned 10 CEU credits and went home with some nice tsotchkes).

For the growing number of corporate and nonprofit professionals focused on social impact and sustainability initiatives, there is more choice in fall 2016 than ever before for events aimed at showcasing successful programs and the brands that made them happen.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sustainability ‘Pioneers’ Honored for Backing SDGs
Introduced last fall by the United Nations, the sustainable development goals are aimed at solving the planet’s most vexing environmental and social issues over the next 15 years. BM&F BOVESPA updated the questionnaire companies must complete to be listed in its Corporate Sustainability Index to ask how the SDGs are incorporated into company sustainability practices and strategies.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Nasdaq President Addresses Sustainability Reporting
“If we make the make the mandatory standard too high, it will stifle the ability for entrepreneurial companies, and particularly small businesses, to get access to capital to grow, create jobs, create wealth and improve the overall economy,” Friedman told the UN audience. “Therefore it is a balance that we have to strike between mandatory and voluntary standards.”
3BL Logo

More from 3BL

  1. 3BL Blogs
    The 3BL Media blog roll is a select list of the most influential, respected, and authoritative voices in corporate social responsibility. Compiled...

  2. Sustainalytics & Newsweek Green Rankings
    3BL Media (54)

  3. Sustainability Communications Webinar Series
    3BL Media's ongoing webinar series is designed to provide a steady stream of educational content relevant to corporate, nonprofit and agency...

  4. CR Magazine
    CR Magazine is the leading voice of the corporate responsibility profession and the publisher of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens List, which has been...

  5. CR Magazine: May/June 2017 Issue
    CR Magazine's May/June 2017 issue features brands taking stands, 2017's most responsible energy companies and much more.

  6. CR Magazine’s Responsible CEO of the Year
    Each year since 2008, CR Magazine has awarded the prestigious Responsible CEO of the Year Award, presented to CEOs — from companies, NGOs, and...

  7. #3blchat: Your Voice, on Corporate Social Responsibility
    Twitter is a wonderfully accessible and democratising platform that lends itself perfectly to engaging in CSR and Sustainability stakeholder...

  8. The CSR Minute
    The Minute is your video digest of the most relevant CSR and Sustainability news and can be seen on the 3BL Media CSR Network - the largest network of...

  9. CSR Reports Special Edition: ESG for Investors
    "ESG for Investors" is a series of special CSR Reports that explores environmental, social, and governance issues that impact the bottom line. Through...

  10. CSR in Canada
    CSR in Canada is a subject as large as the country. Lorraine Smith, Director, SustainAbility, gives an overview of the big picture in a four-part...