Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
• Beyond Gray Pinstripes:   "Beyond Grey Pinstripes is a research survey and alternative ranking of business schools that spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs leading the way in the integration of issues concerning social and environmental stewardship in to the curriculum. These schools are preparing students for the reality of tomorrow's markets by equipping them with the social, environmental and economic perspectives required for business success in a competitive and fast changing world." The site also provides a "searchable database of environmental and social impact management coverage in MBA programs at 100 leading business schools around the world. The database includes information on more than 1000 courses, 800 extracurricular activities, 150 institutes and 700 articles from academic journals." It also provides rankings of MBA programs, worldwide, "that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research." The University of Washington is not on its list of Participating Schools (though Western Washington University and Washington State University are members). See their Global 100 ranking of MBA programs. See also their Trends and Facts.

• Carbon Disclosure Project:   This organization "is an independent not-for-profit organisation aiming to create a lasting relationship between shareholders and corporations regarding the implications for shareholder value and commercial operations presented by climate change. Its goal is to facilitate a dialogue, supported by quality information, from which a rational response to climate change will emerge." See their Responding Companies and Reports.

• Carbon Footprint:   "Carbon Footprint's mission is to educate and inform how we can all make the right choices both at home and at work, save on waste and make sure that future generations will inherit a world we can be proud of." See this British site's carbon footprint Calculator.

• Carbonfund.org:   "Carbonfund.org is a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the dangers of climate change and makes it easy and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to reduce their climate impact." See their Why Offset Carbon, Offset Projects, Links, and their list of Partners.

• The CarbonNeutral Company Limited:   This U.K.-based company "created some of the tools which are have now been widely adopted: legal contracts for carbon credits; carbon calculators which enabled audiences to measure their contribution to climate change; positive, benefit-led messaging rather than trying to catalyse action through bleak scare tactics; the 'measure, reduce, offset' mantra." See their Client Case Studies and their Network of Companies.

• Ceres:   "Ceres (pronounced "series") is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change." It established "the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), now the de-facto international standard (used by over 850 companies) for corporate reporting on environmental, social and economic performance." See their Reports.

• The Chicago Climate Exchange:   This organization claims to be "North America’s only, and the world’s first, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission registry, reduction and trading system for all six greenhouse gases (GHGs). CCX is a self-regulatory, rules based exchange designed and governed by CCX Members." See their Key Features, Offset Projects, Publications, and Market Data.

• Climate Counts:   "Climate Counts is a collaborative effort to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change. We are a nonprofit organization funded by Stonyfield Farm, Inc. and launched in collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet." See their Scorecard Overview and, as an example, climate scores for Food Services. See also their 2008 Climate Counts Pocket Guide (in one PDF page).

• The Climate Trust:   "The sole mission of The Climate Trust is to promote climate change solutions by providing high quality greenhouse gas offset projects and advancing sound offset policy." See their About Offsets and Offset Projects.

• ClimateBiz.com:   This site describes itself as "a free, Web-based resource to help companies of all sizes and sectors understand and address climate change in a way that aligns environmental responsibility with business success. Our mission is to provide hands-on tools, action steps, and other resources companies can use to understand the underlying issues, assess their climate footprint, and devise and implement a plan to significantly reduce their climate impacts throughout their operations and supply chains." See their Backgrounders, (including ones on Emissions Trading and Carbon Offsets), Best Practices, and Transportation.

• David Suzuki Foundation:   " Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation." See their Climate Change section, and Using Carbon Offsets to Neutralize Your Emissions.

• Eco-BusinessLinks:   This environmental directory offers 7,000 links to resources on this topic. See their Carbon Emissions Offset.

• Environmental Defense:   Founded in 1967 as the Environmental Defense Fund, this nonprofit organization of 500,000 members links "science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems." See their Corporate Partnerships.

• European Climate Exchange:   This organization claims its offers "the most liquid, pan-European platform for carbon emissions trading, attracting over 80% of the exchange-traded volume in the market." See their sections on emissions trading and market data.

• Global Climate Change Briefing Book:   This webpage is from the U.S. Congressional Research Service, and is redistributed as a service of the National Library for the Environment. It offers links to the latest resources on this topic.

• Global Climate Coalition:   Though this group disbanded in 2002, this retrospective, from the Center for Media & Democracy, illustrates how business and industry can respond to threats against their interests.

• Global Roundtable on Climate Change:   "The Global Roundtable on Climate Change brings together high-level, critical stakeholders from all regions of the world — including senior executives from the private sector and leaders of international governmental and non-governmental organizations — to discuss and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific, technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public policies on climate change." See their Participants and Projects.

• Green Biz:   This CNN Money special section offers links to weekly news stories, blogs, commentaries, photo galleries, and media about green business.

• Green Business:   This New York Times special section provides articles from the Times on business, energy, and climate change. See also their related special report on the Energy Challenge.

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:   This organization was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme "to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation." See their Publications and Graphics.

• NativeEnergy:   This organization "is a privately held Native American energy company.  In August 2005, the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (COUP) acquired a majority ownership interest in NativeEnergy on behalf of its member tribes, marking another significant step in the Great Plains tribes’ historic effort to power America with Native wind." See their tips on reducing the Carbon Footprint and their Partners and Case Studies.

• Pew Center on Global Climate Change:   "The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue. Our approach is based on sound science, straight talk, and a belief that we can work together to protect the climate while sustaining economic growth." See their numerous Business Reports, Businesses Leading the Way and their October 2006 report Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies That Address Climate Change.

• RealClimate:   "RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science."

• Seattle Climate Partnership:   This organization is a "voluntary pact among Seattle-area employers to take action to reduce their own emissions, and to work together to help meet the community-wide goal." See What You Can Do, and their Partners Roster.

• United Nations Gateway to Climate Change:   This portal brings together all of the United Nations' efforts to deal with climate change. See their Background Information.

• United States Climate Action Partnership:   "USCAP is an expanding alliance of major businesses and leading climate and environmental groups that have come together to call on the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions." See their list of Member Companies and Policy Statements.

• United States Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change:   "EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments." See their Climate Leaders and Partner Goals.

• Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic though caution must be exercised with this resource; see What About Wikipedia from the UW-Tacoma Library. See the Wikipedia entries for Climate Change, Emissions Trading, Carbon Credits, Economics of Global Warming, Mitigation of Global Warming, etc.

• World Bank Carbon Finance Unit:   "The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit (CFU) uses money contributed by governments and companies in OECD countries to purchase project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The emission reductions are purchased through one of the CFU's carbon funds on behalf of the contributor, and within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) or Joint Implementation." See their State and Trends of the Carbon Market, 2007 (in 52 PDF pages).

• Yahoo! News Full Coverage: Climate Change:   Yahoo! News collects articles, news, websites, audio and video, from many sources as part of its full coverage for many topics.

The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
• Encyclopedia of business ethics and society.
  This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars, arranged alphabetically by topic, on all aspects of business ethics.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.

  See the index at the end of volume five for such essays as those on global warming, the greenhouse effect, the climate leaders program, etc.

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

A keyword search for Climate Change in the UW Libraries produced over 1,400 records; limited to the Foster Business Library, just four records

A considerable majority of books on climate change in the University of Washington Libraries are not in the Foster Business Library. Try searches for subjects such as those below, for Foster titles:

• Business Enterprises -- Environmental Aspects
• Carbon Dioxide Mitigation
• Carbon Taxes
• Capitalism -- Environmental Aspects
• Climatic Changes
• Corporations -- Environmental Aspects
• Emissions Trading
• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Policy
• Environmental Protection
• Global Warming
• Industrial Management – Environmental Aspects
• Renewable Energy Sources

Examples of Foster Business Library titles from these searches include:

• Surviving the century: facing climate chaos and other global challenges   (2007)
• Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society   (2007)
• The economics of climate change: the Stern review   (2007)
• Green to gold: how smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage   (2006)
• The sustainable enterprise: profiting from best practice   (2005)
• Investing in nature: case studies of land conservation in collaboration with business   (2005)
• Environmental protection and the social responsibility of firms   (2005)
• International energy markets: understanding pricing, policies, and profits   (2004)
• Raising a ladder to the moon: the complexities of corporate social and environmental responsibility   (2003)
• Harvard business review on business and the environment   (2000)

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