California Earth Week 2008
A resource for everyone involved in a CA Earth Week Event
This group is a place to collaborate for a unified, fun & successful Earth Week in California. Hundreds of schools throughout the state are hosting events April 19th - 25th, and there are exciting happenings at other venues as well. Please share your Earth Week event in this space and let others see what your group/organization is doing to promote enviro ...learn more
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Created: Apr 02, 2008
Updated: Jun 07, 2009
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Responsible Business Practices
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Definition
A responsible business strategy includes four steps toward sustainable development. First, the business can follow compliance-oriented regulations (a reactive stance). Then, it can adopt a precautionary or preventive strategy to avoid harmful environmental impacts. Third, it can use economic, social, and environmental strategies for competitive advantage (opportunity-seeking). Finally, it can adopt a full range of responsible operating, product, financial, stakeholder, labor, environmental and social strategies that make up sustainable development.
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Keywords:
corporate social responsibility, CSR, ethics, ecoefficiency,
Environmental Management Systems, EMS, green procurement, supply chain
management, accountability, environmental auditing, environmental
reporting, monitoring, waste reduction, environmental entrepreneurship,
environmental consulting, green enterprise, capitalism, social
enterprise, profit sharing, corporate codes of conduct, green
accounting, health and safety reporting, eco-design, stakeholder
involvement, life cycle assessment, LCA, carbon footprint
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." -Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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