by EarthDesk | Jun 1, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Economics, Sustainability
By Noushi Rahman How do companies such as American Apparel, Apple, Starbucks, Timberland, Tom’s of Maine, and Trader Joe’s acquire such a pro-sustainability image? I had an unarticulated notion in my head that many of these so-called ethical companies were...
by EarthDesk | May 23, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Economics, Energy, Fracking, Pollution, Technology, Water
The Department of Interior’s latest proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands could set a precedent for how fracking is regulated on private lands nationally and by individual states. Judging from online reactions, the agency may well believe...
by Lauren Birney | May 15, 2013 | Economics, Law & Policy, Technology
By Dr. Lauren Birney and Dr. Jonathan Hill STEM — K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — is fundamental to the training of a technological workforce, the innovations environmental problems demand, and the competitive advantage the...
by John Cronin | May 4, 2013 | Economics, Law & Policy, Pollution, Water
Can water have economic integrity? A team of students from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business believe so and have called for an amendment to the Federal Clean Water Act that would add the term “economic” to the law’s primary objective “to restore...
by EarthDesk | May 3, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Economics, Law & Policy, Pollution
Is there a measurable “green bottom line” that justifies in financial terms companies’ efforts to cut environmental impacts? The key word here is measurable, and measuring such factors is the specialty of Dr. Noushi Rahman, a professor of management...
by EarthDesk | May 3, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Economics
A popular focus of scholars studying corporate behavior and the environment has been a simple question: “Does it pay to be green?” But this arena is full of charges of “greenwash” and dogged by inconsistent ways of measuring success (both environmental and...