Ten Lessons for Corporations Working with Activists

Author: Peter Asmus Rainforest Action Network's recent engagement with Mitsubishi offers some useful tips to help companies make cooperation with activist organizations work for everyone's benefit. Read More

Ontario Government to Ban Incandescent Lights by 2012

Citing the need to save significant amounts of energy by switching to more efficient lights, the Canadian province will phase out use of older light bulbs over the next five years. Read More

Eurostar to Drop Emissions 25 Percent, Go Carbon Neutral

In a move to further emphasize the eco-friendliness of train travel -- and also to outdo recent airline plans to offset carbon emissions -- the train service won't charge customers for the additional costs of offsetting. Read More

Fast Food Restaurants Go Green from the Outside In

Author: Lori Hall Steele A new McDonald's restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, shows that the green-building model can work for the tens of thousands of of fast-food restaurants nationwide. Read More

Ask the Green Architect: Mercury in Lightbulbs

Green architect Eric Corey Freed answers your questions on sustainable building performance, materials, and design. Read More

Accor Highlights Its Sustainable Development Commitments

In time for Earth Day later this month, the global hotel company is showcasing its commitment to sustainability. Read More

Facilitating Sustainability Strategy

Sustainability assessments and strategic planning can help corporations large and small develop socially and environmentally responsible business practices, improve reputations and increase brand equity. Read More

Wal-Mart Expands Employee Sustainability Projects

Personal sustainability practices will help Wal-Mart associates improve their own well-being and the health of the environment. Read More

The Convergence of Science, Technology, and Nature

Brad Allenby writes that business interests have long worked to speed the creation, adoption and dispersal of new technologies into the economy; with the increasing global concern over climate change, they're also encompassing landscapes, biological operations and whole ecological systems, but to what end? Read More

Best Buy Launches Consumer Electronics Recycling Grants

The electronics retail superstore will offer grants to municipal and nonprofit organizations to help them develop new ways for consumers to recycle electronics. Read More