Google’s AI expansion weighs heavily on climate goals

The tech company reported an 18 percent leap in greenhouse gas emissions in 2025, largely fueled by computing hardware, steel, concrete and other supplies related to data center construction. Read More

The next frontier: A CSO’s playbook for fossil-free retirement

As climate risk becomes a financial risk, CSOs and benefits teams can use a three-part framework to align retirement plans with long-term portfolio resilience and corporate sustainability goals. Read More

When employees engage in impact work, loyalty and motivation rise

New GlobeScan and Ashoka research also reveals a related increase in workers' purpose and meaning. Read More

Closing the intention-action gap: designing habit-ready innovation

Closing the sustainability behavior gap requires designing products and systems that reduce friction and make better habits intuitive and repeatable. Read More

How the US is catching up on superpollutant mitigation

Kaiser Permanent, Autodesk and Google are among the companies investing in efforts to tackle methane, refrigerants and other gases with high warming potential. Read More

Gap poaches top sustainability exec from Levi Strauss

Jeffrey Hogue takes over from Gap veteran Daniel Fibiger, who left in May after three years as vice president of global sustainability. Read More

For climate solutions providers, it’s make or break time 

Corporate sustainability leaders must build demand for the sector to thrive. Read More

Meet the 2026 Trellis Climate Tech Startup of the Year

Why a plastic recycling alternative stood out and where climate tech is headed. Read More

Community opposition to data centers grows, crossing political divides

Businesses must treat community concerns and questions about AI data centers seriously if they want to retain their social license to operate in this moment of spiking energy demand. Read More

Microsoft reaches water efficiency milestone

The company is more than halfway toward fulfilling its pledge to reduce the water-use intensity of its data centers by 40 percent by 2030. Read More