Corporate sustainability is often defined by some version of the three-legged stool model and there is an alphabet soup of ways to define that model – 3 Es (economy/environment/equity), 3 Ps (people/planet/profits), CSR (corporate social responsibility), CR+Green, TBL (triple bottom line). At iSpring we often use ESG for environmental, social and governance. But to a [...]
It’s no secret that buildings are energy-hungry beasts. They account for 40% of our total energy use in the U.S., making it pretty obvious that if we want to be serious about energy efficiency, we need to tackle our building stock. According to the Department of Energy, our building energy consumption was 48% higher in [...]
Let’s face it. Reporting is not sexy. Neither are standards. If you need to convince yourself of this fact, hold a talk on standards and reporting (and even offer to feed people) and observe just how many people show up. Yet reporting is often the way that we determine how we’re doing quarter over quarter [...]
20 February 2012 – 11:12 am
A new group of organizations are coming into view, a group that says they’re profiting from their sustainability initiatives. This group, called “Harvesters,” sets itself apart from other companies by fundamentally changing its strategy and operational framework to incorporate sustainability, and they are the focus of this year’s report, Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point, by [...]
16 January 2012 – 8:51 pm
The new year brings us a new standard for certifying and measuring the sustainability of manufacturing organizations. Released in early December by the venerable Underwriters Laboratories and GreenBiz, the new standard, UL 880: Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations, is the culmination of the past several years’ worth of work in developing a comprehensive and verifiable standard [...]
16 January 2012 – 8:42 pm
We are pleased to announce that iSpring is part of a team selected by the City of Philadelphia and led by our Energy Efficiency and Management partner, Practical Energy Solutions, that will be working with the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability for the next 12 months on projects related to reducing energy use in city buildings by 30%. [...]
15 December 2011 – 6:30 pm
iSpring is pleased to announce the completion of an important water conservation project with Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU). The project, conducted in collaboration with the Enterprise Systems Center of Lehigh University, focused on opportunities for water conservation at a cake plant. BBU is the largest bakery company in the United States, producing brands such as [...]
18 November 2011 – 12:39 pm
On November 16th, iSpring Principal Andrea Wittchen was honored by the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (Lehigh Valley Branch) for her work in creating the Lehigh Valley Sustainability Network. At the annual Membership Celebration, Andrea Wittchen received the Sustainability Award for Inidividual Leadership. The awards are presented annually in five separate categories: Private Project, Public [...]
19 September 2011 – 10:11 am
Last week, the 2011-2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) was released, and it must have been a bit of a shock to Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft to see that their names were not-so-inconspicuously left off the list. But they’re not alone. They’re in the company of 20 other firms who were dropped from the [...]
