Library Guides: Business: Sustainability

Databases

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Environment and its connections to agriculture, education, law, health, and technology. Some full text.
Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
U.S. and international company data, including financials, equity pricing, insider trading, and institutional holdings. Includes some private companies. Sustainability module evaluates companies on Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Restricted to UP students, faculty and staff, for research purposes only.

B Corporation
B Corp certifies businesses that meet stringent social and environmental standards. See their free guides on varying aspects of conducting green business.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Tracks corporate social responsibility news for industries, countries, and "the positive and negative impacts of over 5,100 companies worldwide."
Center for Small Business and the Environment
About 80% of the clean technology industry consists of small businesses, say the folks at the CSBE, originators of the Small Business Climate Initiative. Read their ideas for how small business owners can protect and defend the environment.
Greenbiz: State of Green Business
The annual State of Green Business report provides a measure of the environmental impacts of the emerging green economy.