Environmental Resources
Resources
Comparison Sets: Place-based Sustainability
This tool allows a user to investigate the historical variability of precipitation and temperature at various time scales over the 20th century near a user-selected location.
Primary Functions:Inform “big picture” strategic planningIdentify at what stage within the value chain the water footprint is in a hotspotBuild awareness among public
Comparison Sets: Business Case Resources
Making the business case for pursuing a water strategy often involves comparing the benefits and costs of taking action. The lists below summarizes several major areas of... Read More
HydroBASINS is a series of polygon layers that depict watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineations at a global scale. See the website for more info and to download the... Read More
Primary Functions:Make cross-media environmental assessments that consider water consumption and pollution in comparison with other environmental impactsImplement mature... Read More
From trash to premium. Together with leading experts, labs and material innovators we give plastic trash a new life and turn it into yarn and fabric for the fashion and... Read More
Discarded fishing nets continuously kill sea life when left in the oceans, but they become impactful messengers for the cause when recycled. After being retrieved from high... Read More
The Good Jobs Strategy Diagnostic is a survey that identifies which elements of the Good Jobs Strategy your company already practices and where you can improve. It is... Read More
The CSI Guidelines on Quarry Rehabilitation contain a clear set of recommendations for the development and implementation of a quarry rehabilitation plan. Their main... Read More
Provides information on and access to spatial modelling and mapping tools for mapping ecosystem services, water resources and the impacts of climate and land use change... Read More
The Gray to Green (G2G) decision support tool is a GIS-based toolkit that guides users in transitioning to vegetation-based (green) stormwater management systems designed... Read More
Comparison Sets: Carbon Footprint Calculators
Ecological Footprint CalculatorFootprints. We make them everywhere we go. But unlike the impressions we leave in mud or sand, which we can clearly see, our Ecological... Read More
CHEM-IQ℠ is VF's innovative chemical management program. It provides a simple, cost-effective and scalable method for identifying and eliminating unwanted chemistries... Read More
This restricted substances list by the American Apparel and Footwear Association is intended to provide apparel and footwear companies with information related to... Read More
This sector guide to the Social Capital Protocol supports sustainability practitioners from companies in the forest value chain in measuring and valuing their social impacts.
