Marc Gunther
Marc Gunther is a longtime journalist and speaker who focuses on business and sustainability. Gunther maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com. Follow him on Twitter at @marcGunther.Gunther was a senior writer at Fortune magazine for 13 years. At Fortune, he wrote cover stories about the greening of Walmart; about BYD, the Chinese electric car company backed by Warren Buffett; about Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the 2008 financial crisis; and about spirituality in the workplace.Previously, Gunther worked for more than 20 years for newspapers including the Paterson (N.J.) News, Hartford Courant, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. He is the author of four books, including "Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business" (Crown 2004) and is creator and co-chair of Brainstorm Green, Fortune's annual conference on business and the environment.
Why We Need a Cultural Revolution in Consumption
No matter how many environmental wins we achieve, the most important change possible is the one that is hardest for businesses and mainstream environmental groups to embrace: Consuming less is the only solution. Read More
Coca-Cola's New PlantBottle Sows Path to Greener Packaging
(Episode 99): Scott Vitters, the Coca-Cola Company's global head of sustainable packaging, takes the wraps off the company's new PlantBottle, a recyclable PET plastic container made partially from plants. Read More
Cartier Taps Green Mining Firm for Responsibly Sourced Gold
All too often, behind the glitter of gold are ugly environmental and social costs: Unregulated mines creating toxic wastes, child laborers working under grim conditions, rivers and bays polluted with waste. Read More
FedEx: Pushing the Envelope on Sustainability
When you need to ship a package, how do you choose between FedEx and UPS? Their services are similar, if not identical. Could the companies' sustainability practices come into play? Read More
Lipton: Now That's Green Tea!
Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there's no such thing as garbage. Lipton's employees and management have developed just such a system in Suffolk, Va. Read More
Ray Anderson: Radical Industrialist
The founder of Interface shows how being a tree-hugging environmentalist and the head of a thriving, $1-billion a year carpet company don't need to be mutually exclusive Read More
UPS to FedEx: We're Greener Than You
With their neck-and-neck scores in Newsweek's new green rankings, the two shipping companies' ongoing rivalry continues to heat up. Read More
FPL: America's No. 1 Wind Power
FPL doesn’t attract much attention, but with 2008 revenues of more than $16 billion, about 39,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and more than 15,000 employees in 27 states and Canada, the company has become a leading generator of low-carbon energy. Read More
Eaton CEO: Hybrid Trucks Deliver, Big-Time
Crawling, stop-and-go traffic is an annoyance to most drivers. But to Eaton Corp., a $15-billion a year FORTUNE 500 company based in Cleveland, it's a business opportunity. Read More
Americans Waste $130 Billion a Year on Energy
U.S. businesses and individuals could save money, curb emissions of global warming pollutants, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and cut energy consumption 23 percent by 2020, merely by taking sensible, practical steps to use energy more efficiently, says a report from McKinsey & Company released today. Read More