Sustainable Packaging: Cost vs. Price

Manufacturers and their shareholders need to learn that moving to more sustainable packaging can and should be immensely profitable without an accompanying, unjustified price increase. Read More

Dell's New Rules in Leadership for Business and the Environment

Dell is now using its direct model in new ways to showcase the company's environmental commitment, which it has identified as a key strategy for future growth. Read More

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A New Mindset for Corporate Sustainability

This report looks as how some companies have achieved success through sustainability initiatives and argues for a new corporate model of sustainability. Read More

LEED Innovation & Design Credit Catalog Now Online

The catalog contains a listing of proven green building strategies that have been successful on previous LEED-certified projects. Read More

Clorox and Sierra Club Announce Branding Partnership

The Clorox Company has formed a partnership with the Sierra Club as part of the company's launch of Green Works, a new line of natural cleaning products made from plant-based ingredients. Read More

More Steps Toward Eco-Friendliness: Lead-Free, Halogen-Free and Energy Efficiency

Manufacturers are taking strides to make IT products more efficient and with less hazardous materials. For many products, a relatively quick and simple assessment can be completed by focusing on three primary areas: material content, energy consumption and end of life considerations. Read More

Gary Hirshberg: Changing the Culture and 'Stirring It Up

I've long been an admirer of Gary Hirshberg, the idealistic and iconoclastic "CE-Yo" of organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, which he co-founded in 1983. Read More

Managing Risk in Green Building Projects

The green buildings boom has opened up a wide market for professionals of all kinds to begin working on sustainable projects, but with this boom comes a host of new risks ands expectations that must be considered and managed throughout the project. Read More

Hair and Mushrooms: The Next Big Thing for Oil Spill Cleanup?

An unlikely tool has emerged to help hundreds of volunteers soak up globules of bunker oil spilled from a cargo ship that hit the Bay Bridge earlier this month. Read More

Target to Make Less Toxic Toys and Children's Products

The retailer announced a plan to reduce or eliminate the amounts of PVC used in its child and infant products, shower curtains and packaging as a way to minimize the negative health effects of exposure to phthalates and lead. Read More