Where Desertification Meets the Bottom Line

Businesses can invest in local social and environmental projects to halt or reserve desertification, engage with suppliers to reduce degradation, and create products that improve agricultural sustainability and enable restoration of damaged land. Read More

Carbonetworks Looks Beyond Carbon with New Name, CEO

In a nod to its years-long shift toward a broader focus on energy and sustainability management, software firm Carbonetworks rebranded itself as ENXSuite and named a Silicon Valley veteran to be its new CEO to navigate the company through a nascent but increasingly competitive market. Read More

What's Driving the Business Case for Carbon Management?

Innovation, costs, and regulation now drive leading firms to increasingly embrace carbon management and sustainability, but within the next few years, companies will move in greater numbers from a tactical to strategic approach as factors such as emissions and resource scarcity take on greater importance in C-suite decisionmaking. Read More

A Buyer’s Guide to GHG Accounting Tools

The market for tools measuring corporate greenhouse gas emissions has nearly doubled since 2008 as an increasing number of customers, investors, and regulators pressure companies to report on their climate impacts. This guide will help you examine the tools on the market and choose the solution that works best for your company’s needs. Read More

Walmart's Sustainability Report Reveals Successes, Shortcomings

In its 2010 Global Sustainability report released Tuesday, the company described its efforts over the course of a year in which it made a slew of notable headlines. The company has improved fleet efficiency by 60 percent and reduced facility greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent, but faces challenges in reducing packaging and eliminating PVC. Read More

Tying Compensation to CSR Performance

We need to tie compensation to sustainability performance in every company, across every sector, and ensure the incentives deliver tangible performance improvements in order to effectively deal with today's global realities: a changing climate, rapidly emerging economies, and the expected arrival of some two billion additional humans. Read More

Enviance and FirstCarbon Expand Their Carbon Software Lineups

Enviance and FirstCarbon Solutions unveiled newly enhanced carbon accounting software products this week aimed at helping a growing number of companies in a variety of sectors measure and manage their carbon footprints. Read More

Greenwashing is Only Getting Worse

Yes, many businesses are taking green to heart, but even those corporations that are leading the charge are still conducting toxic business as usual behind the scenes. Read More

Tropicana Shrinks Juice Boxes Due to Orange Crop Failure

Tropicana is shrinking its most popular size of orange juice by five ounces due to freezes in January that put the squeeze on orange crops.   Read More

4 Keys to a Successful Sustainability Strategy

If you're of the mind that the global economy is an Energizer battery that will simply go, go, go -- without needing outside attention -- think again. Read More