Since 2008, Timberland has hosted quarterly calls with our stakeholders to discuss topics and issues that are key to our efforts to become a more responsible, sustainable business. Lend your voice to the discussion and share your feedback on our next quarterly call, focused on product labeling:
DATE: Tuesday August 3, 2010
TIME: 12:00 to 1:30 PM EST
SUBJECT: Enabling consumers to make responsible purchasing decisions by providing them with standard, comparable data about the environmental impacts of the products they buy.
SPEAKERS: Jeff Swartz of Timberland and David Labistour of Mountain Equipment Co-op
Please register for the event by emailing csrinfo@timberland.com.You’ll receive a response within 24 hours that confirms successful registration.
Be sure to sign up by July 29 to receive additional information about the call and call-in details! These materials will be sent by July 30.
Can’t attend? That’s okay – we’ll be posting the results of this call and continuing the discussion on our stakeholder calls web page. And if you’re interested in learning more about Timberland’s social and environmental issues, activities and impacts, visit Earthkeeper.com.
Timberland just announced its corporate social responsibility (CSR) results for the first quarter of 2010. A couple of Earthkeeping highlights:
- We achieved a 2.5% emissions reduction in Q1 2010 compared to performance in Q1 2009. This reduction is due to energy efficiency improvements, like LED lighting retrofits in our stores and energy efficiency improvements at our headquarters. Several of our stores in Europe are now purchasing renewable electricity, which also contributed to reduced energy demand.
- We continue to see improvement in our Green Index® scores — meaning that the environmental impact of our products is getting lighter, and better. In our Green Index rated products, recycled and organic content has increased 15% year over year in Q1, and our average Green Index score is 5.87, compared to 6.52 in Q1 2009 (on a 10-point scale with 1 being very green and 10 being very … not).
To read more about our quarterly CSR performance in more detail, visit earthkeeper.com/csr. Have thoughts about how we’re doing? Please share them here.
Since 2008, Timberland has hosted quarterly calls with a diverse set of stakeholders to support our long-term corporate CSR strategy. This level of transparency and accountability helps Timberland elevate a dialogue on material issues for our industry while providing us critical feedback as we chart our path to become a more sustainable organization.
DATE: Tuesday, August 4, 2009
TIME: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST
SUBJECT: How we’re building an Earthkeeper movement to empower our own employees and citizens worldwide to incorporate sustainability into their everyday lives.
SPEAKERS: Jeff Swartz of Timberland & Deron Triff of Changents
Please register for the event by following these simple steps:
1. Click this link (or copy & paste into your web browser: http://bit.ly/gyDM1)
2. Click “Physically Attending” to register for the event.
3. Click “Submit.”
You’ll receive an email from Justmeans within 24 hours that confirms successful registration. You may also register for the event by emailing csrinfo@timberland.com.
Be sure to sign up by July 30 to receive additional information about the call and call-in details.
The results of this and other calls are posted on our reporting web page on Justmeans.com. This online stakeholder platform enables a continuation of the discussion through stakeholder comments and discussion. You can learn more about past Timberland stakeholder calls by visiting the CSR section of our website.
A year ago, Timberland started hosting quarterly calls with a diverse group of stakeholders to focus on key environmental and social issues for our company and our industry. These calls have proven to be a good way for us to share information about what we’re doing to be a more sustainable organization, and provide valuable feedback which helps shape our efforts going forward.
The topic for our next call is corporate climate strategies — including Timberland’s progress towards our 2010 carbon neutral goal and the role offsets will play in meeting that goal. Won’t you join us?
Date / Time: April 20, 2009 (11 am – 12:30 pm ET)
Featured speakers:
Jeff Swartz, CEO of Timberland
Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres
Click here to register (deadline April 16)
All calls are recorded and posted online at www.timberland.com and, we aim to continue these conversations online after the call at www.timberland.justmeans.com.
Can’t listen in but want to share your questions or thoughts on the subject? Comments are welcome here.
Tim Sanders (best-selling author, public speaker and former Chief Solutions Officer for Yahoo!) has just published his third book, entitled, “Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference.” In it, Sanders discusses the Responsibility Revolution currently underway – as evidenced by increasing demand by consumers and employees alike that the companies they buy from and work for offer social value in addition to economic value.
Huffington Post’s John Tepper Marlin spoke with Sanders recently about his book and the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) moving beyond being a “luxury good” to a more mainstream commodity. Sanders also shares his thoughts on how to make such a revolution sustainable, what defines pioneers in the space of corporate responsibility and why companies embracing CSR as yet another way to make a buck won’t survive. You can read the entire interview here.
We’ve long believed in the premise that making a profit and making a positive social impact can and should live together in the world of business … we’re putting “Saving the World at Work” on our reading list. If any of you have read it, we’d love your review.
