Resources

GENERAL INFORMATION ON CLIMATE, ECOSYSTEMS, AND GREENHOUSE GAS

The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)

The Climate Registry

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

ENERGY RESOURCES

Energy Star

Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency

The California Solar Initiative (CSI)

American Solar Energy Society (ASES)

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

KEY ORGANIZATIONS & THOUGHT LEADERS

California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA)

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

Build It Green

Natural Capitalism Solutions with L. Hunter Lovins

Sustainability Advantage with Bob Willard

The Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI)

LOHAS

The Natural Step

SUSTAINABILITY BUSINESS CASE RESEARCH & INFORMATION

Atos Origin / IDC (2009)
“The Business Case for Environmental Excellence is Real”

AT Kearney (2009)
Green Winners, The performance of sustainability-focused companies during the financial crisis

Center for American Progress/ Political Economy Research Institute (2008)
“Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy”

Deloitte (2007)
“Sustainability: Balancing Opportunity and Risk in the Consumer Product Industry”

Economist Intelligence Unit (2008)
“Doing Good: Business and the Sustainability Challenge”

Economist Intelligence Unit (2008)
“Corporate Citizenship: Profiting from a Sustainable Business”

Environmental Defense Fund (2008)
“Innovations Review: Making green the new business as usual”

Ethisphere (2009)
World's Most Ethical Companies

Goldman Sachs (2007)
“GS Sustain”

Harvard Business Review Article (2006)
“Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Social Responsibility”

IBM Global Business Services (2008)
“Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility”

Innovest (2007)
“Carbon Beta and Equity Performance: Moving from Disclosure to Performance”

McKinsey (2007)
“A cost curve for greenhouse gas reduction”

McKinsey (2008)
“How the world should invest in energy efficiency”

McKinsey (2009)
“Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy”

Wall Street Journal (2009)
“Google: Clean Energy Goes ‘Straight to the Bottom Line”

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT COMPANIES

Preserve

Sustainable Group