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5 Rules to Make Sense of Using Cloud Computing in Your Business
Traditional business IT is often highly inefficient, but moving to the cloud is fraught with unknowns and concerns. Here's how to best balance the business and sustainability benefits of cloud computing against the associated risks. Read More
Sustainable Packaging's New Definition Emphasizes Lifecycle Impacts
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition puts a bigger emphasis on a package's lifecycle impacts with its updated definition of sustainable packaging. Read More
Hyatt Cuts Energy, Water & Waste by 10% on Path to 2015 Green Goals
The hotel chain's vice president of corporate responsibility says green teams have been key to the company's success in making progress on its 2015 sustainability goals. Read More
Students Give Kimberly-Clark a Lesson in Design Thinking
Last fall, Kimberly-Clark Health Care turned to students at the Rhode Island School of Design for inspiration and ideas about a second life for Kimguard, the most widely used sterilization material on the market. Read More
Ford-Toyota Partnership Shows Standards Drive Innovation
Ford and Toyota’s hybrid vehicle partnership will accelerate innovation, deliver better technology to the market sooner, and add to the existing fuel-efficient supplier job base of 150,000 workers. Read More
4 Steps to Get You On the Path to Zero Waste
If you look at it from a purely business perspective, paying someone to take away a revenue stream is just a bad idea. Here are the lessons you can learn from zero-waste projects from Walmart, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and others. Read More
Adidas to Work With Greenpeace to Remove Toxics from Global Supply Chain
The clothing giant is following Nike's lead in the wake of a Greenpeace campaign around the clothing industry's use of harmful chemicals. Read More
First Takes: Dunkin's First CSR Report, China's Car Market Booms, and More…
The donut-and-ice-cream retailer publishes its first CSR report, Chinese car buyers took home 14 million cars in 2010 -- but just one Prius -- and more in our morning roundup. Read More
Toys R Us Embeds Green Building Elements in Store Expansion Plans
The biggest toy store company in the U.S. outlined an ambitious agenda to open 21 new stores and renovate 23 others by the end of the year. Behind the ballyhooed expansion plans are a series of green building elements for each site. Read More
How Whole Foods Engages the Whole Employee on Sustainability
From energy management to smart design to waste diversion, Kathy Loftus, Global Leader of Sustainable Engineering, Maintenance & Energy Management at Whole Foods Market, knows how important it is to get every coworker on board with green efforts. Read More