New sustainability tools to calculate milk's carbon footprint
The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy has released two tools to help companies calculate and cut emissions from processing plants and milk transportation. Read More
Burger King goes cage-free: What it means for egg suppliers
In a move that could grow the market for cage-free eggs, Burger King is pledging to switch to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2017. It also plans to eliminate gestation crates for breeding pigs. Read More
Will Unilever's sustainability leadership pay off?
Unilever is making serious strides to limit its environmental footprint while improving health and well being. But will consumers -- and investors -- reward it for its efforts? Read More
Why valuing your workers as assets makes financial sense
A handful of companies in high-growth Asia currently are valuing their employees as assets -- rather than expenses or liabilities -- and reporting on them in their financial statements. Read More
How Best Buy makes money recycling America's electronics
Retailing giant Best Buy has seen its recycling take-back program grow from a costly gamble into a fast-growing business. Read More
Lockheed Martin flies toward higher environmental goals
Lockheed Martin not only met goals to cut emissions and waste ahead of schedule, but exceeded them, and is now looking to set new company-wide environmental targets. Read More
Biomimicry and teaching business the 'secrets of life'
Janine Benyus has shown time and again in her work on biomimicry that life creates conditions conducive to life. Here's how the business world could do that. Read More
Why Wells Fargo is banking on sustainability
What does it take for a major bank to make a major environmental commitment? Why would it do that? Read More
Earth Day Fail: The worst pitches of 2012
Aside from the well-intentioned efforts of a few notable companies, Earth Day often serves as a launchpad for misguided, ill-conceived and downright counterproductive green-themed pitches. Here are some of this year's worst. Read More
Why Walmart's better supplier scorecard is a big deal
Walmart is significantly expanding its supplier scorecard program by asking more suppliers more questions -- and more specific questions. Here's what it means for suppliers and other retailers. Read More