What superpowers will you discover when your ESG data is readily accessible and reliable?

There are hundreds of possible certifications for your industry and products. Which are most strategic and attainable?

Is your sustainability story being lost in the noise? It needs to permeate your entire brand to give you a competitive edge in your industry.

Marketplace insight reports give a window into where your clients and competitors are headed.

Did you know you have options when it comes to energy rates and utilities for each of your facilities?

Product composition is becoming a massive concern for consumers. From recycled content to chemical composition, end-users want to know what is in what they buy.

Annually calculating your Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions isn't just essential for your own reporting efforts; it helps you align with the carbon reduction goals of your customers.

Sustainability data can be simple -- or not so simple -- to gather. Here's a look at how to address complex datasets related to chemicals, recycled content, and material efficiencies.

How do you build a comprehensive plan around collecting and centralizing the data so you can actually use it?

How exactly do we help companies align their corporate values with best practices in sustainability?

Sustainability Associates Natalie & Floyd unpack the importance of anchoring sustainability efforts in corporate values.

Want your sustainability strategy to be well-balanced, effective, and reliable? These four components need equal influence on your sustainability strategy.

We believe that at their core, companies want to be good and do good for the world. But navigating the road to "doing the right thing" is complicated, overwhelming, and ever-evolving.

Our team is committed to helping companies accelerate their sustainability journeys by being an extension of their team.

Bryan Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe) in northern Michigan, stood up in front of a room full of mostly white men and said unapologetically, “the values, ethics, and wisdom you need to address climate change are alive and well within indigenous communities all across the country”. He went on to say, “We may not have a lot of advanced degrees (although some of us certainly do), but we know things”.

In Season 5 of the MicroVlogCast, we focus on helping companies understand why and how to begin producing a sustainability report.

As a result of COVID increasing our attention towards global health, we've heard a lot about improving Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), despite not having new standards and little new technology for IEQ. At a recent ASHRAE conference, I listened to a keynote presentation in which the presenter said, “If we just maintained our buildings as they should be maintained, we'd see a dramatic improvement in IEQ.”

If you think of the major news stories of the past two years, some that come to mind include The Great Resignation, supply chain problems, chaotic energy prices, and genuine push for companies to be sustainable. Despite these stories being seemingly unrelated, there is a theme across all of them: Conscious Capitalism.

2021 was a year full of growth, innovation, and change at Foresight. In our 2020 recap newsletter, published last January, we wrote the following, “Over the last few years, our clients have steadily increased their focus on sustainable business practices. Several factors contributed to this trend, some of which include: the changing climate, an increased demand for transparency from financial markets, the shift from a shareholder economy to a stakeholder economy, and the increased value consumers have placed on how products are made. Since 2018, we’ve responded to this growing trend by adding services and expertise to support our clients’ sustainability goals and needs.” As we look back on 2021, these sentiments continue to ring true 12 months later, and in almost every respect they ring more emphatically than ever before.

If your organization has already begun accounting for its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, it might be time to brave the next step: inventorying your Scope 3. In a recent report released last month, investment research firm MSCI listed the top ten ESG trends to consider in 2022. What was #1 on the list? “Corporates Pushing Corporates for Net-Zero Supply Chains.” That’s right–supply chain decarbonization.