Has Sustainability Become a Cliché?

In an earlier blog, Robert Pojasek spoke about environmental sustainability as an oxymoron. The "Google recognition index" registers more than 3,240,000 hits for environmental sustainability. "One has to wonder if the term sustainability is becoming a cliche," Pojasek now writes. "It is being applied to so many terms that it is in danger of becoming meaningless." Read More

How Companies Are Investing in Sustainability

Long-term sustainable growth is important to building a successful company. In Part 3 of her four-part series "Growing a Green Corporation: Meeting the Next Great Disruptive Challenge of the 21st Century" Brandi McManus looks at different strategies for investing in sustainability. Read More

Calculating the Gross National Trash

How can we aim our economy in the right direction if we don't know where we are? Read More

Understanding the Energy Within Bottled Water

Tap water requires a whole lot less energy than bottled water. No big surprise there. But within the world of bottled water, modes of transportation and distance can cause one bottle's energy footprint to be much bigger than another's. Read More

Hippo Sweat Could Lead to Better Sun Protection

A secretion that protects hippos from the sun also keeps insects and microorganisms away, and could be an inspiration for multi-purpose sunblocks. Read More

Old Tires Become Timberland Boot Soles

Timberland's fall collection will include 200,000 pairs of shoes made with Green Rubber, a material made primarily from reused car tires. Read More

Future Looks Brighter for Solar Hot Water Heating Systems at Hotels

Historically, owners of lodging establishments throughout the United States and Canada have ignored the sun as a source of potential energy to heat water. Whether because of concerns about cost or misperceptions about how solar thermal technology works, solar hot water heating systems have been rare. But now that's all beginning to change. Read More

Happy Baby Puffs Launches in Obsolete Packaging

Happy Family's new baby food snacks are sold in containers leftover from when Method switched its cleaning wipes packaging. Read More

B-School, Sustainability and Our Discontent

In a recent article, the New York Times asked whether it is time to "retrain" business schools. The answer is yes, writes Leanne Tobias, who finds it interesting that so few of the readers commenting on the piece mentioned incorporating sustainability into business school training. Read More

Honeywell, KCP&L to Expand Demand Response Program

Diversified technology and manufacturing firm Honeywell and Kansas City Power & Light are extending their arrangement for Honeywell to manage the utility's Energy Optimizer Program for another three years with a goal of bringing total participation to almost 80,000 homes, apartment and small businesses. Read More