In case you missed it, last week’s Twitter #CSRChat, hosted by Fenton, focused on corporate social responsibility and marketing. The conversation garnered at least 450 tweets, many of them thoughtful.

This week H&M released its 2010 sustainability report. Some of the highlights include improved ethical sourcing, labor rights, and the procurement of more eco-friendly textiles.

Microsoft announced yesterday that starting this Friday, the company will purchase only 100% post-consumer waste (PCW) paper for its offices in the greater Seattle metropolitan area.

Walmart just just released its 2011 Global Responsibility Report. Waste diversion and renewable energy initiatives that appear within some of the chain’s 8000 or so locations are only a couple of the report’s highlights.

In 2011, blue chip companies from Walmart to Coca-Cola to Disney have accomplished several initiatives from waste diversion to water efficiency. Here are some observations I have made as spring turns into summer.

Listen to Mary Capozzi of Best Buy as she explains how the electronics retail giant took on corporate citizenship from two directions through a materiality assessment.

Tomorrow Fenton will host its fourth #CSRChat, a bi-weekly Twitter meet-up and mash-up where movers, shakers, and folks interested in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) world.

Last week a leading corporate social responsibility communications agency released a (non-scientific poll) that revealed that CSR professionals and leaders do not use social media to communicate its CSR strategy.