Unilever Sets 10-Year Goals to Cut Environmental Impacts in Half
On the heels of similar long-term targets set by rival Procter & Gamble, the consumer products company aims to double sales while cutting the water, waste and carbon impacts of its products -- and its customers' use of those products -- by 2020. Read More
London Mayor to Spray City Streets with Pollution Paste
In a bid to cut air pollution, the City of London began spraying a "dust suppressant" today that acts as an adhesive to paste particulate matter to the streets instead of re-circulating in the air. Read More
Wind, Solar Top Walmart Food Distribution Center
The newest Walmart Canada fresh and frozen food distribution center will be 60 percent more energy efficient that Walmart's other centers and will be topped by wind turbines and solar panels. Read More
Aveda and Estee Lauder Find Common Ground on Sustainability
Since Aveda was purchased by Estee Lauder Companies in 1997, the smaller, environmentally-focused personal care company has benefitted from the larger scale of its owner while also influencing Estee Lauder's sustainability efforts. Read More
Levi's New Jeans Design Cuts Water Use by 96 Percent
By making simple changes to the jeans finishing process, Levi's has been able to dramatically reduce the water needed to produce each pair of jeans. Read More
Chicken Manure Helps Power UK Town
Starting next month, the droppings from thousands of chickens will add their might to a biogas power station serving this Cotsworld market town. Read More
Do Green Businesses Have Happier Workers?
A study that looks at sustainability from an employee productivity level rather than a financial level, finds that productivity goes up as much as 40 percent if workers perceive that their job is for the greater good. Read More
KKR Expands Green Portfolio Program
Global equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has expanded its money-saving environmental management initiative in Europe and Australia, bringing another five companies into the Green Portfolio Program. Read More
The Hottest Jobs in Cleantech and Where to Find Them
Solar power, biofuels and biomaterials continue to hold the best cleantech job opportunities in the U.S. with the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley again topping the list of 15 metro areas in the country with the greatest job activity, according to a new study from Clean Edge. Read More
American Food Waste Also Wastes Millions in Energy
A study by researchers at the University of Texas finds that the embedded energy in wasted food is equal to 2 percent of the nation's annual energy budget; cutting food waste would save 350 million barrels of oil per year. Read More