5 Ways to Grow Revenue with Green Innovation
Bottom-line initiatives are critical to staying viable and competitive while benefiting society and the environment. They’ll grow profits, for a while anyway. But they aren't a path to continued growth or advantage. To consistently grow the bottom-line, sustainability innovation needs to drive the top-line. Read More
P&G: A Bold Green Vision, But . . .
Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products company, unveiled a bold new sustainability vision on Monday. But don't start the cheering yet. Read More
Behind Procter & Gamble's Sustainability Vision
Procter & Gamble's announcement today of a new "sustainability vision" is a noteworthy moment — not just for the world's largest consumer packaged goods company, but for the world of sustainable business. It represents another yardstick of how major corporate players view their place on the sustainability landscape. Read More
City Shaped Like a Rhino Planned in Southern Sudan
While U.S. planners and local governments are striving to create sustainable communities and neighborhoods, Southern Sudan's government is taking a cue from nature to remake 10 state capitals: The cities are being planned in the shape of animals and fruit that appear on regional flags. Read More
IBM's New Data Center Brings Home the Gold
IBM chose an existing building to house what would become the company's most technologically advanced green data center. Re-use of the building, along with a slew of energy- and water-saving measures, helped land the data center a LEED Gold certification. Read More
Quote for Sept. 24, 2010: Charlie Chaplin, 1916
"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. Read More
Are There Too Many Eco-Labels and Green Ratings?
As a society, we love choices -- but with more than 300 green certifications and labels on the market, and more lining up every year, the system has gotten a bit out of control. Read More
Johnson Controls, Sodexo HQs Earn LEED-Platinum Ratings
In a green building tour de force, Johnson Controls' corporate campus in Glendale has earned four LEED-Platinum ratings -- the most awarded to a single site in the history of U.S. Green Building Council. Sodexo's North American headquarters also received certification at highest USGBC level. Read More
Optional Hotel Housekeeping: Radical Concept or Great Idea?
When you offer travelers something they like over and over, or just about anything repeatedly, they will come to expect it. That's certainly been the case with towel and linen reuse programs. Will the day will come when guests also expect to have the option to opt out of housekeeping entirely -- and be rewarded for it. Read More
Quote for Sept. 23, 2010: Robert Millikan, Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1923
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923. Read More