Sprinting Toward Sustainability with CEO Dan Hesse
The head of the country's third-largest cell phone provider has taken green to heart, and is making the business case for green initiatives from energy efficiency to minimal packaging. Read More
Super-Light, 100 MPG Car Takes $5M X Prize
The biggest winner in the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE competition is not an electric car, but a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds and is powered by an internal combustion engine. Read More
How Water Footprinting is More Complex than Carbon
A report published today by Coca-Cola and the Nature Conservancy looks at the fluid impact of the beverage giant's operations, and finds there are three key kinds of water used in making your favorite beverages. Read More
The Secret Sauce Behind Smucker's Sustainability
Why has this company, which for most of its life has focused on the prosaic business of making jellies and jams, lasted for 113 years? Read More
Can Brazil Save the Amazon?
Environmentalists have labored for decades to protect the impossibly vast rainforests of the Amazon, which make up more than half of the world’s tropical forests. But until recently they had little to show for their efforts. Read More
Can a Coal-Carrying Railroad Be Green?
Although the environmental benefits of rail power that Union Pacific touts are significant, the company is also a big customer of the coal-mining industry and is opposing climate legislation in Washington. Read More
The Real Story Behind Some of the 10 'Greenest' Brands
The business of green certainly is complicated, and a recent survey listing the brands consumers perceive as the greenest in the land only further illustrates that point. Read More
This Stinks: What Perfume Makers Won’t Tell You
A new report reveals a slew of popular perfumes on the market include secret ingredients not disclosed on the label. Is it a reason for alarm? Read More
JPMorgan Chase's Coal Problem
A number of big banks are under fire to stop funding mountaintop removal mining, and none more so than JPMorgan Chase, whose green talk doesn't match its stride. Read More
The Revolution in the Laundry Room
Over the past several years, the look of the laundry detergent aisle of your supermarket has completely changed, driven largely by Method, and followed by the sector's biggest players. Read More