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Thank you for browsing Timberland's CSR Reporting 2.0 page on the JustMeans platform. As you view our content, please leave us your feedback. Your collective wisdom is why we have pushed for this level of transparency. To get started:

Interested Stakeholders

On the upper left hand side of this page ("More About Company"), you will see a list of Timberland's four strategic "pillars" of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Click on each pillar to get a general summary of our strategy.

Data Miners

On the upper right hand side of the page ("Quarterly Reporting"), you can go directly to our key performance indicators for progress in CSR. Here you can view approximately 15 data points with context and analysis. For those wishing to gain a quantitative understanding of Timberland's progress in CSR, this is for you. Analyze our results and leave us your feedback.

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Browse our page. Read the Earthkeeper blog. Learn about upcoming events. Join our stakeholder network to learn about new Timberland initiatives. Leave us comments about our progress. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Q1 2008: Energy Data


PDF(97449 kb)Timberland has a target to become carbon neutral by 2010. This means that we will address our own footprint by reducing the emissions created by our facilities and employee travel. This report contains our Q1 2008 results against this stated strategy.


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Q1 2008: Product Data


PDF(87942 kb)Recyclable product is another way of saying designing product that has an after life. This means at the end of a product's life, it doesn't go into the landfill, but becomes an input for the next generation of products. This aspirational goal leverages our outdoor heritage and environmental credentials in a competitive and green marketplace by providing durable products that meet our consumers' needs and exceed their environmental expectations. This Q1 2008 report details our progress against this stated strategy.


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Q1 2008: Workplaces


PDF(104494 kb)As a global brand and a global citizen, we have a responsibility to ensure that our products are produced in workplaces that are fair, safe, and non-discriminatory. This Q1 2008 report details progress against this stated strategy.


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Q1 2008: Service


PDF(88091 kb)We're passionate about the outdoors and will do what we can to encourage others to explore and enjoy the outdoors as well. In 2008-9, we will be focusing our service efforts on Community Greening. During this campaign, our company sponsored service events will work to strengthen communities by improving green spaces and access to the outdoors. This Q1 2008 report details progress against this stated goal.


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Q1 2008: Factory List


PDF(123832 kb)This report details the factories that make up our supply chain as of May of 2008.


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Events

Timberland Stakeholder Dialogue: Green Index
Join us in July to discuss the Green Index and two years of eco labeling. How has this level of consumer transparency moved the ball for responsible consumerism? What are best practices? Is this a niche activitiy or an industry revolution. Share your feedback and hear stakeholders debate this timely topic. Your perspective is greatly valued. Please RSVP to csrinfo@timberland.com by July 18 to receive additional information about the call and call-in details.
Event Date 22 Jul 2008

Earth Day 2008: Serving the Bronx Community
To celebrate Earth Day, 200 volunteers from Timberland, the Bronx Community, City Year staff and corps members, business partners, teachers, parents, and students will join together in a day of transformational service to: Demonstrate the ongoing commitment of Timberland, City Year and Sustainable South Bronx (SSBX) to the environment and the overburdened community of the South Bronx. Further the expansion of the South Bronx Greenway to provide much needed open space and a connection to the outdoors for local residents. Contribute to a greener and greater New York through tree planting sponsored by the New York Million Trees campaign. Community: The South Bronx is a low income Latino and African American community that accommodates a disproportionate amount of New York Citys regional infrastructure such as waste and sewage treatment facilities. The area also has over 55,000 diesels trucks moving through on a weekly basis leading to very poor air quality for local residents. Service: Timberland and community volunteers will celebrate Earth Day and a genuine commitment to the South Bronx by enhancing green space along Lafayette Avenue, planting trees shrubs and perennials, and creating sustainable green spaces for community residents. Community Partners: Sustainable South Bronx, MS201, New York Botanical Garden, New York city Parks Recreation and the Trust for Public Land. Schedule: 9:00 am Registration opens at Hunts Point Riverside Park 9:30 am PT Led by City Year Corp members Welcome - Itai Dinour, Executive Director CYNY Remarks - Jeff Swartz, Timberland Commissioner Kavanagh, Parks Recreation 10:00 am Spirit break Deployment, City Year 10:30 am Service begins at all sites 12:15 pm 30 minute Lunch at all sites 3:15 pm Service concludes. Return to Riverside Park 3:30 pm Closing Program - Erik Estrada, CYNY Corps member Program to be followed by light refreshments. MS 201 City Year will be partnering with MS 201, the Trust for Public Land, NYC Parks and Restoration and New York Restoration Project to plant 27 trees around the MS 201 schoolyard as part of Million Trees NYC, which is a citywide, public-private program with an ambitious goal: to plant and care for one million new trees across the City's five boroughs over the next decade. By planting one million trees, New York City can increase its urban forest--our most valuable environmental asset made up of street trees, park trees, and trees on public, private and commercial land--by an astounding 20%, while achieving the many quality-of-life benefits that come with planting trees. The City of New York will plant 60% of trees in parks and other public spaces. The other 40% will come from private organizations, homeowners, and community organizations. Mr. Bailey's Garden For the fourth year in a row, City Year will be returning to Mr. Bailey's Garden to sustain the work started there in 2005. On Earth Day 2005, Timberland began the transformation of the garden for a vacant, garbage-strewn lot to a beautiful garden, with the help of City Year and Sustainable South Bronx. Every year since then, City Year has returned to the garden to continue the work. This year, City Year will return with Timberland, Sustainable South Bronx and their green collar job training program, and the New York Botanical Garden to re-build the retaining wall in the front of the garden to prevent erosion, grade the entranceway so a truck can effectively drop woodchips off in the garden, install a tool shed, and re-pair a fence and planter beds. Chicken Coop Garden In the spring of 2007, City Year partnered with the local community to transform a lot used to raise chickens. It was covered in trash and now contains an inspirational mural and picnic tables. This year, City Year will continue to remove debris, build a pergola and benches, and green the space by planting 4 trees. Hunt's Point Riverside Park Hunt's Point Riverside Park is a brand-new park that provides much needed green space in the South Bronx and will offer New Yorkers access to the Bronx River, New York's only freshwater river. The park was the first Bronx River Greenway site to break ground and also the first waterfront park in Hunts Point in more than half a century. New York City Parks and Recreation lacks the manpower and resources to adequately maintain the park. Serving together, we will mulch all the planting beds and plant a flowering cherry tree on the green street at the entrance to the park. Hunt's Point Living Memorial The living memorial was designed by Sustainable South Bronx and Greening for Breathing to create spaces to come together in the Hunts Point community., in the aftermath of September 11th. The memorial trail specifically deals with memorialization, healing, and the social processes of coming together. On Earth Day, we will clear out debris of the existing tree pits, install cobblestones to prevent erosion, and plant shade-loving perennials to both green and beautify the spaces. Pio Mendez Houses These houses are affordable housing residents for local, Hunt's Point seniors. Residents care for a garden space in the back of the building and City Year's Young Heroes program in the South Bronx will join with the residents to beautify and green the space.
Event Date 22 Apr 2008

Timberland Stakeholder Dialogue: Community Greening
On April 15th, Timberland hosted a stakeholder conference call on community greening - one pillar of our CSR strategy. Featured speakers on the call were Majora Carter, Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx (www.ssbx.org) and Jeff Swartz, President and CEO of the Timberland Company (www.timberland.com). Mindy Lubber, Executive Director of Ceres (www.ceres.org), hosted the call. Throughout 2008, Timberland will host four stakeholder engagements to support the launch of our long-term CSR strategy and new online reporting tool. To listen to the April 22nd call, please go to www.timberland.com/csrreport.
Event Date 22 Apr 2008

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