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