Publications at CSO - page 3
Hanover, NH Sustainability Project
In 2011, we worked with Pontifex Consulting and the Donella Meadows Institute to create a community sustainability planning tool. The initial development was done in conjunction with Hanover, NH's Sustainable Hanover Committee (SHC) as a test case, with a particular emphasis on measuring, managing and reporting community-level CO2 emissions against reduction targets aimed at restoring CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to safe levels (e.g., 350 ppm). Attached to this link is a poster Pontifex and the SHC produced to describe the approach we took.
This is a presentation CSO’s Executive Director, Mark W. McElroy, gave to members of the Sustainability Leadership Forum in Chicago, IL on March 10, 2011.
Re-casting the Triple Bottom Line
This is a working proposal by the Center for Sustainable Organizations for improving the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) model for sustainability measurement and reporting. It attempts to apply the Ecological Footprint approach to all three sides of the TBL, and also proposes a means of integrating measures taken on all three fronts into a unified score which would report on the true bottom-line sustainability of a collective.
Computing Unitary Bottom Lines
This short white paper describes a methodology for computing unitary financial and non-financial bottom lines in a manner consistent with CSO's context-based approach to sustainability management. It is arguably the world's first comprehensive attempt to operationalize Triple Bottom Line measurement and reporting in a systematic (and quantitative) way.
This is a presentation CSO’s Executive Director, Mark W. McElroy, gave to members of the Burlington, VT chapter of 350.org in 2008 on how humanity can measure, manage and report its progress towards restoring CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to safe levels.
