National Environmental Education Foundation

NEEF's Business and Environment Program has helped companies integrate employee education and engagement to align sustainability goals and day-to-day operations, while also improving their bottom line. Through its Business Sustainability Educational Roundtable, NEEF has engaged leading companies, including Kimberly-Clark, Johnson & Johnson, Intel and others, representing four million employees to share and develop best practices on employee engagement. NEEF has also produced groundbreaking reports on employee engagement in environmental and sustainability education.

A new report, "Toward Engagement 2.0: Creating a More Sustainable Company through Employee Engagement," released jointly by NEEF and GreenBiz Group on September 19, 2011, sees advances in environmental and sustainability employee education—indeed a culture of sustainability taking root in leading companies.

NEEF's President Diane Wood said, "The report examines how companies are going from primarily ad hoc and self-organized employee engagement efforts, to providing more organizational support and structure for environmental and sustainability education."

GreenBiz Group Chairman and Executive Editor Joel Makower said, "Employee engagement has become a strategic asset for companies seeking to align environmental responsibility with business success. This report provides real-world case studies of companies that are embedding sustainability into their culture, from employee orientation and training to evaluating their companies' overall employee engagement efforts."

View or download the report.

This report also marks the launch of a partnership between NEEF and GreenBiz Group on employee engagement. Learn more about the NEEF-GreenBiz Group partnership.

Special thanks to Webex and Cisco for sponsorship of our webinars (http://www.webex.com).

In the News

This series of blog posts at www.csrperspective.com shares BT employees' contrasting approaches to renewable in their home lives.
The Green Team Center, GreenBiz.com provides articles, reports and research on creating and building green teams.
- Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability, a report by Deborah Fleischer, November 2009
Teaching Sustainability Has Benefits for Big Business, by Carrie Madren. (Miller-McCune, April 14, 2011) Companies ranging from banks and defense contractors to organic yogurt makers reap benefits by creating a corps of sustainable-savvy employees.
Sharing Training Materials: A Good Idea, But Will Companies Participate?By Jim Jubelirer, an independent management consultant working with EDF to help speed the transition to a sustainable economy. Can we accelerate the adoption of sustainable behaviors and products in business by sharing training materials? That is the question we asked a group of subject-matter experts at a meeting in EDF’s DC office on July 20, 2010.
It’s Back to School Time: Employee Education is a Key Factor in the Success of Green Programs, Posted on GreenMarketing 08 September 2010. By Kerry Given
Organizational Culture and the Success of Corporate Sustainability Initiatives: An Empirical Analysis using the Competing Values Framework. A report from the National Resources and Environment Department and the ERB Institute at The University of Michigan
2010 Pew Corporate Energy Efficiency Conference. Featuring the panel 'Employee Engagement: From Shop Floor to Top Floor: Engaging Employees in Energy Efficiency'. (April 6, 2010)
Lockheed Martin Announces New Green Initiatives For 140,000 Employees, Their Families And Communities. In conjunction with National Environmental Education Week (EE Week), Lockheed Martin announces green initiatives that will reach its 140,000 employees.(CNN Money.com, April 8, 2010)
An Earth Times article, An AngelPoints White Paper: Thinking about Sustainability, discusses NEEF's E&S White Paper.
The Business & Environment Roundtable was profiled in Produce News. View the article.
Higher Education's Purpose: A Healthy, Just, and Sustainable Society. The Business & Environment Report was mentioned in a Fast Company blog by Anthony Cortese
Employees Should be Part of Any Green Solution,Kevin Moss, of BT, discusses NEEF's report, The Business Case for E&S Employee Education on GreenBiz's blog.

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