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For close to a year, some Bayer and Aleve products have been sold as stand-alone bottles instead of bottles inside boxes. While reducing the amount of packaging material, the move also changed the cap and label materials.   Read More

Can a company dedicated to buying and selling goods thrive while trying to convince people to consume less? eBay and its dedicated green team are working to promote the benefits of buying used products as the only kind of green shopping. Read More

What does Toyota's travails mean to green marketing? That's a question that seems ripe these days, as the leading Japanese auto maker gets a comeuppance for its allegedly serious safety defects. Here are four possible scenarios. Read More

By investing solely in firms that are top performers on social and environmental issues, and setting the bar very high for which companies make the cut, the "Natural Capitalism" author is seeing impressive returns. Read More

Ford is expanding its alternative-fuel fleet offerings with the all-electric Transit Connect and the ability for all Transit Connect models to be converted to run on compressed natural gas or propane.   Read More

Although there are many benefits from investing in and working within metropolitan areas and inner cities, much of the information about opportunities is fragmented and scattered.   Read More

Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S. Read More

At the State of Green Business Forum last week in San Francisco, a panel of industry experts explored how radical transparency -- whether driven by companies themselves or their customers -- is reshaping the world of green marketing. Read More

Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to tell that joke, and it’s as good a way as any to introduce Greenbiz.com’s third annual State of Green Business report. Read More

How many times have you felt stymied in helping yourself and your colleagues advance toward a common goal in a sustainable way because of commitment, communication patterns or other reasons? Permaculture offers a powerful system of sustainable design that can help. Read More