Smart Meters Alone Won't Reduce Energy Use, Study Says
Utilities need to go beyond the smart meter and use a range of energy-feedback tools to achieve significant reductions in customers' power consumption and their electricity bills, new research shows. Read More
10 Things I've Learned About Making Sustainability a Core Value
Interface president and CEO Dan Hendrix shares some of the important lessons his company has learned on its Mission Zero journey. Read More
Swiss Carbon-Neutral Servers Hit the Cloud
Swiss cloud computing firm CloudSigma announced it has achieved its carbon neutral status through energy efficiency and carbon offsets. Read More
Five Ways to Prevent the Next Deepwater Horizon
The already nightmarish Gulf oil spill from BP's deepwater drill is only getting more complicated with the arrival of hurricane season. A few new guidelines will make disaster planning easier and prevent future catastrophies. Read More
Portugal's PlanIT Valley to Put Green Tech on the Map
Portugal's plans to build the world's greenest city -- and a hopeful competitor to Silicon Valley -- from the ground up may be ambitious, but they are also surprisingly credible. Read More
Deloitte Creates Six-Step Plan to Corporate Sustainability
To recognize the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Global Compact, the firm has pulled from its work with the world's leading companies to outline and define the steps any organization can take to move toward social and environmental responsibility. Read More
Can a Coal-Carrying Railroad Be Green?
Although the environmental benefits of rail power that Union Pacific touts are significant, the company is also a big customer of the coal-mining industry and is opposing climate legislation in Washington. Read More
The View from the C-Suite: P&G's Len Sauers
The VP of Sustainability at the world's largest household and personal products company talks about Procter & Gamble's 9,000-member innovation team, how it impacts chemical giants like Dow and Dupont, and what it takes to get people to do their washing in cold water. Read More
GE to Invest $10B More in Ecomagination R&D by 2015
General Electric is committing $10 billion to ecomagination research and development in the next five years after reaching a $5 billion investment milestone for its portfolio of environmentally sensitive products, services and technology. Read More
The 'Living Principles' for Designing Our World
A new framework, "The Living Principles," aims to help bring sustainability to design in all its many forms, from products to companies to systems of commerce. Read More