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Chris D'Avignon's green job story shows how the threads of work history, business skills, and a growing personal commitment to doing things better led him to build a business that is creating more green jobs daily. Read More

Long-term sustainable growth is important to building a successful company. In the final installment of her four-part series "Growing a Green Corporation: Meeting the Next Great Disruptive Challenge of the 21st Century," Brandi McManus provides a blueprint for building a green team. Read More

Tesco is charging ahead with its plans to slap a carbon label on all of its private label products to denote the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it takes to produce each item. Next up: toilet paper and paper towels. Read More

Researchers in Japan have found that pellets make of water and carbon dioxide frozen and bonded together uses less water and releases less CO2 than some fire-suppression methods. Read More

The amount of electricity that just one Google's data centers could use when it comes up to full power is enough to power the city of Oakland for almost four months. Read More

In what might be a sign of a new trend, Google has brought goats onto its California headquarters to clear grass and weeds, reducing fire risk in a low-carbon way. Read More

FedEx wants a third of its jet fuel to come from biofuels by 2030, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday in a speech delivered during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event. Read More

Beauty product company Aveda has earned Cradle-to-Cradle certification not only for seven of its products, but it's also earned the designation of a Cradle-to-Cradle company for its operations-wide efforts on energy, materials, recycling and environment. Read More

Corrugated cardboard made of post consumer waste material is an excellent sustainable packaging solution and a critical part of a long term environmental solution, but it has to be combined with some basic product knowledge to be cost effective as well as performance effective. Read More

If you have walked the aisles of your favorite retailer recently, you may have noticed that the number of environmental claims and eco-labels continues to increase. From self-declared, manufacturer-invented eco-labels to third-party labels, there is no lack of variety. In the eco-label industry, there is a constant battle over which type of label is best. Read More