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April 12, 2010 | Comments 5

LEED Certification = Greenwashing?

By Andrew King, Ph.D.

Andrew King, Ph.D.

A few weeks ago, my students and I discussed a local drug company's new LEED platinum building. The building was the first to be given the highest level of certification for environmental performance by the US Green Business Council. By building it, the drug company received voluminous and tremendously positive press coverage. And yet, the more my class and I...

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May 04, 2009 | Comments 0

Research on Business and the Environment Has Come a Long Way

By Andrew J. Hoffman, Ph.D.

Andrew J. Hoffman, Ph.D.

Research in the area of Business and the Environment (B&E) has come a long way in the nearly twenty years I have been at it. It is hard to believe, but this was a very new area when I first started my PhD in the early 1990s. And in my pursuit of doctoral advisors, more than a few professors declined,...

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