Deloitte Boosts Green Cred with Purchase of ClearCarbon, Domani

More evidence that corporate sustainability efforts are advancing, despite goverment inaction: Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting and consulting firms, said this week that it has acquired two sustainability consulting firms, ClearCarbon Consulting and Domani Sustainability Consulting. Read More

Five Stages on the Sustainability Journey

Almost every company, large or small, progresses through these five stages on their sustainability journey, and firms that are wondering how to take their sustainability efforts to the next level may benefit from knowing that even the greenest firms have also passed through these stages. Read More

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