Reporting & Disclosure
CEOs Can Embed a Culture of Sustainability Beyond their Departure
A new report from the Network for Business Sustainability looks at how corporate leaders have succeeded in building their sustainability efforts into the DNA of the company, regardless of who is sitting in the C-suite. Read More
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
Green Grid Unveils New Metrics for Data Center Carbon, Water Use
The tech industry association is expanding on its ubiquitous PUE formula to help data center owners and operators get a fuller picture of their environmental impacts by measuring the carbon outputs and water use of data centers. Read More
CPG Firms Set Zero Net Deforestation Goal at COP16
On the first day of the international climate change negotiations in Mexico, some of the world's largest consumer goods companies threw their collective weight behind efforts to tackle deforestation and to phase out potent greenhouse gases used in refrigeration. Read More
Conquering the Green Team Plateau for Sustainability Leadership
The green team model is an efficient way to tackle sustainability goals and engage employees that are hungry for more opportunities to boost their company's sustainability efforts. 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
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
5 Simple Ways to Create a Green Procurement Program
One area that is all too often overlooked in corporate sustainability plans is green procurement -- a move that, if done right, can raise the environmental performance of an entire industry. Read More
Is Interface's Sustainability Strategy Still Relevant?
Interface's Ray Anderson asks, "Is there still a need for the Interfaces of the world now that some of the world's biggest firms are also climbing toward the summit?" Read More