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.
The Power of One: Coca-Cola
Bryan Jacob, energy and climate protection manager for Coca-Cola, is in charge of Coke's global effort to reduce the greenhouse gases that are emitted by the company's 10 million vending machines and coolers. Read More
The Power of One: Union Pacific
Mike Iden has spent a lot of time at Union Pacific working on making locomotives more efficient as well as reducing their emissions, including developing new low-emission engines and redesigning containers to reduce drag. Read More
The Power of One: eBay
The company made it relatively easy for Karenina Susilo to get outside the box of her regular job to develop the company's innovative reusable shipping box. Read More
Inside Unilever's Big, Broad, Bold Sustainability Plan
Unilever unveiled its 2020 sustainability plan yesterday, and no one can accuse the company of playing small ball. Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan will attempt to do something that will be incredibly hard to achieve: growing a company's sales without growing its environmental footprint. Read More
Colgate's Wisp: Two Steps Backward
Colgate touts its single-use, non-recyclable Wisp mini-toothbrushes just a few webpages away from from talking about its respect for the planet. Read More
Seventh Generation: Not Coming Clean on Hollender's Departure
Seventh Generation's ouster of co-founder Jeffrey Hollender remains something of a mystery, even as details emerge about the sequence of events that led up to his unexpected departure last month. Read More
Early Details Emerge About Ouster of Seventh Generation's Founder
Seventh Generation Founder Jeffrey Hollender has told friends that his ouster came as a surprise. It evidently followed months of tension with his board and with Chuck Maniscalco, the former senior exec at PepsiCo who was brought on as CEO of Seventh Generation in June 2009. Read More
Floating Islands: Using Garbage to Clean Polluted Water
A small company based in rural Montana has big dreams for using post-consumer plastic waste to restore fish populations, sequester carbon, remove water pollution -- and create unlimited amounts of new waterfront property. Read More
GE's Ecomagination Challenge: A Smart Way to Spur Innovation
The competition, which will award sizable grants to the most innovative ideas and startups, has generated more than 3,000 entries, and promises to speed our progress toward a smart grid, clean energy, eco-friendly homes, buildings and cars. Read More
P&G: A Bold Green Vision, But . . .
Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products company, unveiled a bold new sustainability vision on Monday. But don't start the cheering yet. Read More