All Articles About Consumer Products

Blog: Introducing the ‘Nice Consumer’: Can She Lead Us to the Sustainable Consumption of Fashion?

Cody Sisco, Former Manager, Advisory Services

Many smart and opinionated people are split on the answer to the question of whether less is more, which has become central to the sustainable consumption debate. Read more →

Posted: December 16, 2011 | Topics: Consumer Products, Sustainable Consumption

BSR Insight Article: Helping Your Suppliers Improve Their Sustainability Efforts

Jessica Davis Pluess, Manager, Research

To increase the reach of sustainability efforts, companies are using sophisticated questionnaires, scorecards, and indices as tools for supplier engagement. However, companies often superimpose their own sustainability goals on suppliers without considering how these tools could enable stronger governance structures, systems, and strategies for suppliers. Read more →

Posted: December 13, 2011 | Topics: Consumer Products, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain

BSR Insight Article: HP, Dell, and Nokia Top Greenpeace’s Green Products Ranking

Greenpeace’s 2011 “Guide to Greener Electronics” ranks 15 leading mobile phone, TV, and computer manufacturers on their policies and practices to reduce climate impacts, produce greener products, and make their operations more sustainable. HP, Dell, and Nokia top the list of the greenest manufacturers, while LG Electronics, Toshiba, and RIM take the bottom three ranks. Read more →

Posted: November 29, 2011 | Topics: Consumer Products, Information & Communications Technology, Reporting & Communications, Supply Chain

Blog: Can We Afford Our Constant Consumption?

Ted Howes, Former Director, Advisory Services

Thanksgiving. I love this holiday. The opportunity to sit down with family and friends, enjoy one another’s company, and share a feast is indeed something to be thankful for. In my family, we always go around the table sharing what we’re grateful for. It’s a profound moment of connecting and appreciation for what we have, and it often turns out that we’re thankful for the small things—the ones we can’t purchase. Read more →

Posted: November 23, 2011 | Topics: Consumer Products, Sustainable Consumption

Blog: During Tough Economic Times, Is It Time to Focus on the Fundamentals?

Ayesha Barenblat, Former Director, Stakeholder Collaboration

At the BSR Conference this year, I moderated a lively, insightful, and solutions-focused panel on “Child Labor, Culture, and Compliance.” Given the breadth of private, public, and civil society experience among our panelists and the audience, we were able to come up with some concrete solutions, including the sharing of effective monitoring tools and early-warning systems to pick up and respond swiftly to instances of child labor, and to outline what good remediation looks like—which, in this instance, is about giving a child laborer his or her life back. Read more →

Posted: November 17, 2011 | Topics: Consumer Products, Human Rights, Supply Chain