The fast food chain is swapping out the red for green in its logos in some European stores, as a way of promoting its environmental commitment. Read More

The addition of three new retailers last week brought the total of signatories aiming to reducing mining's environmental and social impact to 60, with more than $1.3 billion in U.S. jewelry sales represented by companies involved. Read More

Moving farms off land and into skyscrapers is on the verge of becoming reality. The main hurdle isn’t technology; it’s one of engineering and funding. Read More

Companies large and small, and in every industry, still hold on to a number of surprising misconceptions about the risks and rewards of implementing sustainability practices. Here's how to dispel those myths. Read More

How can you persuade your finance department to invest in finding your company's business case for sustainability? It's not easy, but it can be done. Part 2 of this three-part post on building a business case for sustainability tells you how. Read More

SpoonLidz has developed a new, paperboard spoon touted as an alternative to plastic or bio-based spoons and which cannot be used to cause harm. Read More

There is a resuscitated movement to judge our built work by the wider ecological context into which it is put. To optimize its beneficial effect rather than maximize its financial profit (or simply minimize its environmental harm). Optimizing our resources and decisions within the limits of our natural world is not merely wise or clever or noble; it's a requirement for our survival.   Read More

AU Optronics Corp., Taiwan's largest manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels, has helped craft a “Solar Frisbee Roof” to canopy playground equipment at a Taipei schoolyard.   Read More

In releasing its first-ever sustainability data, the U.S. Postal Service shows that it has cut total energy use by 9 percent in the past three years, while making strides in e-waste recycling and energy intensity. Read More

Axion International Holdings has been commissioned by the U.S. Army to build two bridges from recycled plastic at Fort Eustis in Virginia. The bridges are planned to be able to handle 130 pounds, more than Axion's previous two recycled plastic bridges at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.   Read More