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International Society of Sustainability Professionals journal.
ISSP journal articles

 

Articles about Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
(chronological order; current at the bottom)

Sustainability: Why we need a professional association
Social Entrepreneurship: Harnessing Commerce for Good
Is the Media Stepping Up to their Role in Solving the World's Problems?
Sustainability 2.0--Life after the Tipping Point
Is America Finally Ready to Change?
Upside of a Down Economy: Etching a silver lining around the black clouds

Sustainability Planning—Step by Step

Recovering Our Communities: Making Time the New Currency

What's getting in our way? Three questions for a sustainable future
Sustainability Buzzwords: Making sense of all the terms (ISSP; Reprinted by Qatar Today, April 2010)
 Homo Economicus Interruptus: New Principles for a sustainable economy (ISSP)

Responsible Party

** Sustainability Circus: Getting all the major sustainability frameworks/indicators under one tent (ISSP)

 Articles about Teams, Empowerment,
& Work Redesign

Articles about Gen'l Business Trends
& Management Practices

AXIS Annual Sustainability Reports

AXIS publishes a report each year where we document our contributions to all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The last several years' reports are available here. Click on the year you want.

Thank you for sending us a copy of your AXIS Corporate Social Responsibility Report Year 2003. Wow!! What a busy year. You two accomplished more last year than an average size community in a lifetime. Nice job!

-- Roger McFadden, Vice President Technical Services, Coastwide Laboratories

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2008 Report (PDF file, 832 KB)

2007 Report (PDF file, 756 KB)

2006 Report (PDF file, 272 KB)

2005 Report

2004 Report

2003 Report

2002 Report

2001 Report

2000 Report

1999 Report

1998 Report

 

 

Articles written for the International Society of Sustainability Professionals

Homo Economicus Interruptus: New Principles for a sustainable economy Download

Sustainability Buzzwords: Making sense of all the terms (Darcy Hitchcock) Download.

Social Indicators: The Real Health of the States (Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Institute for Innovation in Social Policy) Download.

Detoxifying the Personal Care Products Industry (Mark Wuttke, Wuttke Group) Download. (1.2 MB)

Is Sustainable Development Still a Relevant Business Issue in this Economic Crisis? (Lynette Thorstensen, World Business Council on Sustainable Development) Download. (600kb)

Team Oregon: Paving the way to eco-cities (Team Oregon) Download (4 MB)

Participatory Budgeting (Jez Hall, Participatory Budgeting UK)  Download read-on-screen version. (9.7MB)

Stakeholder Engagement (Stockholm Environment Institute) Screen-friendly (2.7 MB)

Climate change: What we have to do NOW (Eban Goodstein, Focus the Nation) Download

Sustainable Development (Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions) Download

Moving the World toward Sustainability (Karl-Henrik Robert, The Natural Step) Download

Genuine Wealth Assessment (Mark Anielski) Download

Cool Trends: What Cities are Doing NOW to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (Special report) Download-4.66MB

Product Stewardship in the Real World (Jeff Omelchuck and Wayne Rifer, Green Electronics Council/EPEAT) Download

Green Jobs Trends (Michael Renner of WorldWatch) Download

Beyond LEED: The Living Building Challenge (Jason McLennon) Download