All Articles About Sustainable Consumption

BSR Insight Article: BSR Review Launches With an Issue on Sustainable Consumption

Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services

BSR recently launched the BSR Review, a bi-monthly publication with strategies, tools, and opinions developed by BSR on a given theme central to business. Read more →

Posted: October 12, 2010 | Topics: Consumer Products, Sustainable Consumption

Blog: Untying the Sustainable Consumption Knot

Cody Sisco, Former Manager, Advisory Services

It’s Fashion Week in London, where the latest designs are showcased and pushed out to the world. BSR members companies gathered just a few blocks from the fashion festivities to discuss sustainable consumption and how to push out to mainstream business ideas and actions that maximize consumer value while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Read more →

Posted: September 21, 2010 | Topics: Sustainable Consumption

Blog: Preventing the Next Crisis Through Sustainable Consumption

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

Now that oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, it is time to consider the lessons that can be drawn from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Read more →

Posted: August 27, 2010 | Topics: Sustainable Consumption

Blog: Happiness for Sale?

Cody Sisco, Former Manager, Advisory Services

Decisions about how we spend our money can affect our happiness, but only under the right conditions. Based on the emerging social science of “happiness studies,” and as reported by the New York Times, “our types of purchases, their size and frequency, and even the timing of the spending all affect long-term happiness.” Read more →

Posted: August 10, 2010 | Topics: Sustainable Consumption

Report: The New Frontier in Sustainability

Framed for years as a limitation on business, sustainable consumption—an economic system that allows all individuals to meet their daily needs without disrupting the planet’s healthy ecosystems—actually represents the new frontier of sustainability for business. In a world where our consumption patterns outpace the planet’s ability to regenerate resources by 30 percent, companies that figure out how to deliver value with radically reduced material inputs will be well-positioned for success. Our new report outlines how business can promote sustainable consumption by addressing parts of the value chain cycle that have been overlooked in first-generation sustainability efforts: product design, consumer engagement and use, and end-of-use. Also included are strategies that will help business redefine core activities through the multiple lenses of innovation, education, collaboration, and measurement to create to systemwide changes to consumption. Read more →

Posted: July 28, 2010 | Topics: Consumer Products, Environment, Strategy & Integration, Sustainable Consumption | Download (PDF)