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BSR Insight Article: Your Guide to the BSR Conference 2012

BSR's 20th annual Conference starts today in New York, and we're looking forward to welcoming you in person or having you follow the highlights online. Read more →

Posted: October 23, 2012 | Topics: Conference

BSR Insight Article: BSR at 20: Accelerating Progress

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

Note: This article is an excerpt from BSR's 20th anniversary Report, "BSR at 20: Accelerating Progress." As BSR celebrates its 20th year—and its 20th Conference, which starts today—sustainability has entered the mainstream. Businesses and institutions around the globe are working to create an economy that thrives within planetary boundaries and enables all of the world's people to lead dignified, prosperous lives. Turning this vision into reality is the central challenge of the 21st century. Read more →

Posted: October 23, 2012 | Topics: Conference, Environment, Financial Services, Governance & Accountability, Leadership, Strategy & Integration

Blog: The Critical Role of Women in Sustainable Development

Jill Sheffield, President, Women Deliver

Robert Engleman, President, Worldwatch Institute

All too often, the link between investing in women and achieving sustainability goals is overlooked. Women support families through wage labor, preserve traditional knowledge, maintain biodiversity, and ensure household food security and nutrition. Despite these critical roles, women and young girls continue to suffer the effects of poor healthcare, education, and discriminatory policies. Read more →

Posted: October 22, 2012 | Topics: Conference, Women & Sustainability

BSR Insight Article: Backstory: The Media’s Role in Sustainability

Eva Dienel, Associate Director, Communications

Both Andrew Revkin and Eric Roston began their careers in print journalism before turning to new mediums—Revkin's Dot Earth blog at the New York Times and Roston's role as editor at Bloomberg Sustainability News—to focus on sustainability issues. At the BSR Conference 2012, they will explore the media's role in reporting on sustainability, and whether growing media coverage will help or hurt corporate responsibility efforts. Here's what they have said in the past about their roles as sustainability journalists: "Lately, I've been describing the kind of inquiry I do on Dot Earth as providing a service akin to that of a mountain guide after an avalanche. Follow me, and I can guarantee an honest search for a safe path. This is a big contrast from the dominant journalism paradigm of the last century, crystallized in Walter Cronkite's 'That's the way it is' signoff." —Andrew Revkin,"My Second Half," Dot Earth Blog, the New York Times, December 21, 2009 "A big challenge right now is just to get everybody in the conversation on the same page about how to define the word sustainability. Given Bloomberg's scale, the first opportunity we have is to bring some uniformity to the discussion." —Eric Roston, interview, Columbia Journalism Review, February 16, 2012 To hear from Revkin and Roston and dozens of other sustainability experts, register now for the BSR Conference 2012, taking place October 23-26 in New York. Read more →

Posted: October 16, 2012 | Topics: Conference, Media & Entertainment, New Media

BSR Insight Article: Nobel Laureate José Ramos-Horta on Fostering New Democracies

Julia Robinson, Communications Associate

In the wake of the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, wrote about the struggles of new democracies to move out of instability and into peaceful, solid statehood. Read more →

Posted: October 9, 2012 | Topics: Conference, Human Rights, Leadership