Leadership by Example

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These questions form the basis of the rating in the next section

1) Does the company have a pattern of serious violation of applicable federal, state, or local laws/regulations or international treaties for worker safety, waste exporting, or environmental discharge.laws.in the past 5 years?

2) Does the company have in place an Environmental Management System that incorporates continuous improvement (e.g. ISO 14001)?

3) Does the company or its parent corporation produce and make public a corporate sustainability report, including reporting of environmental, health, and social performance and complying with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines on at least an annual basis?

4. Is the company a leader in the following areas? In each of these areas a company can get positive points for leadership behavior or negative points for detrimental or negligent behavior.

1. Political Activity: Has the company privately lobbied or publicly advocated for or against important environmental, health, and/or social justice protection in governmental regulation or important NGO policy standards (such as improvement of LEED) in the past 3 years?
   • For protections (add one point)
   • Against protections (subtract one point)
   • Unknown (default) (no points)
2. Fairness & Equity. This is automatically determined by the scoring of the Fairness & Equity Category. A score of 7 or better on F&E adds one point for Corporate Leadership. A score of 2 or less subtracts one point.
3. Community relations: This is automatically determined by the scoring of the Community Relations Category. A score of 7 or better on CR adds one point for Corporate Leadership. A score of 2 or less subtracts one point.

5. Does the company engage in advanced corporate leadership practices in any of the categories listed below? Policy statements are not sufficient. Company must demonstrate it has taken concrete actions in a category to accumulate credit. Listed activities are examples of the types of actions that qualify in each category. One point is given for each category in which the company undertakes advanced activities. Each activity must be described in brief with link to more detailed public descriptions.

Categories of advanced corporate practice(s) are as follows:

1. Full product content disclosure: Complete list of contents of the product are disclosed on the product label or in product literature
2. Green Chemistry and Materials
   • Adherence to the precautionary principle in product design and production
   • Invests in or utilizes green chemistry and design
   • Sponsorship of advanced materials research
   • First adopter of innovative materials
   • Development of advanced product stewardship system
3. Innovative Manufacturing Operations
   • Implementation of demonstrably cleaner manufacturing processes
   • Use of completely closed loop water system
   • Operation of on-site renewable energy producing equipment
   • Pilot site for new, innovative clean technologies or equipment
4. Extended Supplier and Production Management
• Requires suppliers to meet or exceed corporate sustainability practices
• Extends corporate sustainability practices to its work in developing countries
• Auditing and verification program for overseas supply chain operations
• Use of supplier life-cycle scorecard to collect mfg production from suppliers
5. Environmental Stewardship
   • Land conservancy
   • Protection of endangered plant or animal species.
   • Lobbying/support for progressive environmental legislation

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