In Aliette K. Frank’s article, What is the story with sustainability? A narrative analysis of diverse and contested understandings, she explores eight different sustainability “stories”, both those in public and scholarly contexts, that each show to a different approach to sustainability measurement. With this, Frank attempts to provide alternatives to conventional sustainability practices and ways of thinking. […]
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 2011 for corporate sustainability assessment, and it is one of the key competitors of GRI. SASB distinguishes itself by focusing on communicating sustainability information to investors and establishing an accounting-based framework. It establishes a standard process to assess the material impacts of an industry […]
Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network
The Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN), established in 2013, is a nonprofit institution declared by the United Nations University as a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Sustainable Development in Education. This makes it one of 138 worldwide and only one of three located in the US. Specific values of GPSEN include education, the […]
GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines for Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Critical Review
GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines for Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Critical Review This article takes a close look at GRI guidelines while providing a critique and suggesting alternatives. This is perhaps not too different from the research article that we are looking to write about STARS reporting, albeit ours more comparative. Also, Dumay et […]
The College Sustainability Report Card
The College Sustainability Report Card was a program from the Sustainable Endowments Institute that ran from 2007-2011. It was the first comprehensive list of sustainability profiles of institutions of higher education and it assessed the 300 schools in the US and Canada with the largest endowments along with around 20 other institutions who chose to […]
STARS Version 2.1
This past January, two years after the introduction of STARS 2.0, AASHE released a new update to the sustainability assessment system. This is the fifth update to the assessment and contains more minor changes compared to a brand new version. It is also not yet in effect, but listed as the forthcoming edition. The biggest change […]