Andrew Watterson to Join BrownFlynn

BrownFlynn is pleased to announce a new addition to the Firm’s senior staff: Andrew Watterson will be joining its sustainability and corporate responsibility consulting firm as a senior consultant serving local, national and global clients, effective October 31, 2011. Andrew brings to the firm an extensive sustainability management background, having served for more than six [...]

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BrownFlynn celebrates 15 years, releases 2nd sustainability report

We are proud to present our second annual sustainability report: 15 Minutes of Sustainability. 15 Years of BrownFlynn. In collaboration with our valued design partner Studio Graphique, we’ve taken Andy Warhol’s famous quote about ‘15 minutes of fame’ and turned it on its side to pose a challenge to our readers: What if everyone took [...]

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New Rules of Engagement: Sustainable Investing

The winter issue of Listed, The Canadian Magazine for Listed Companies, features an article by Milla Craig, principal of Millani, a consulting firm specializing in sustainable investing industry analysis for asset owners, asset managers and publicly listed companies. The article is titled “New rules of engagement” and speaks to the continued growth in sustainable investing, [...]

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First 2011 Training Dates and More Sustainability Happenings from BrownFlynn!

Mark your calendar for January 26th and 27th. BrownFlynn Learning is offering its first open enrollment GRI-certified course of 2011. The GRI Process prepares participants to understand and coordinate the GRI-G3 Process, and how it can be used, not only to develop a report, but enhance a company’s sustainability strategy. And that’s just the beginning…please [...]

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Barb Brown & Margie Flynn in the news!

Principals and Co-owners Barb Brown and Margie Flynn were featured in the Cleveland Plain Dealer this past Sunday in a special segment called “Talk with the Boss” in the Business Section. Brown and Flynn were quick to point out that there is no ‘boss’ at BrownFlynn, but rather our culture is that of a collaborative team [...]

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BrownFlynn Sustainability

Debut of our new video!

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Green Plus

BrownFlynn recently partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Development to offer our sustainability consulting expertise to the companies and nonprofits that seek the Institute’s Green Plus certification. To learn more about the Green Plus certification, take a look at their video: Or visit the Institute for Sustainable Development’s website.

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BrownFlynn’s Principal and Co-Owner Barb Brown speaks at “Building the Bridge to Sustainable Living and Working” Conference

Can businesses use video games for efficient and sustainable business activities? BrownFlynn’s Principal and Co-Owner Barb Brown and I joined Bayer MaterialScience, Bayer Corp, and other consultants from across the country to find out. On June 2nd, Barb took part in the “Building the Build to Sustainable Living and Working” Conference in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. The [...]

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BrownFlynn’s Prioritization Framework℠

To help sort through the complex and rapidly changing arena of more than one hundred sustainability indices, BrownFlynn, a corporate responsibility and sustainability consulting firm, has developed the Prioritization Framework℠.  Using this proprietary framework, BrownFlynn evaluates the world’s most influential rankings with the following results tailored to the needs of the organizations that request it: [...]

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Decoding Sustainability Rankings and Ratings

Over the past year, Newsweek’s popular green rankings and Wal-Mart’s Product Sustainability Index—among many other new “green” indices—have demonstrated that ranking companies and their products based on their social, environmental and economic sustainability has gone mainstream. And yet the proliferation of all of these different rankings, ratings, awards, certifications and labels has not necessarily made [...]

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