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
How to Handle Challenges to LEED Certification
The controversy over the LEED certification of Northland Pines High School case brings the gaps in the policy for handling such challenges into sharp focus. Here are some constructive suggestions on how to improve the process. Read More
10 Questions a Sustainability Manager Should Be Prepared to Answer
No matter where your company is on its sustainability journey, you will inevitably have to field some tough questions from your CEO or other executives about sustainabity. Here's a cheat-sheet to help you prepare. Read More
Five Ways to Organize your Sustainability Team
Coordinating and providing leadership for sustainability across a global enterprise is extremely challenging; here are the top ways we've seen firms lay out their organizational structure, and how well it can work. Read More
The New Era of Sustainability Calls for CEO Action, not Talk
A survey of more than 750 CEOs around the world conducted by Accenture and the United Nations finds that 93 percent say sustainability is key to their firms' successes, and that the time for action on green issues has come. Read More
GreenBiz.com: 10 Years After
The site, which launched 10 years ago today, has come a long way since June 21, 2000, though for all of our success, we've only just begun to fulfill our promise. Read More
10 Things I've Learned About Carbon Footprinting
We've made stunning progress in the realm of carbon footprinting and accounting over the last 10 years and learned much as a collective industry and community. Here is a list of top 10 lessons that are applicable to sustainability executives today. Read More