Cadbury Pulls Palm Oil from Formula for Dairy Milk Bars

Under pressure from New Zealand's Auckland Zoo, Cadbury has agreed to remove palm oil from its Dairy Milk chocolate bars, because of concerns about deforestation and habitat loss. Read More

Inside Walmart's Sustainability Consortium

The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure price of admission. Read More

Five Tips to Cut Manufacturing Water Use

The CEO of Siemens Water Technologies has laid out a handful of steps to help manufacturing facilities measure, manage and reduce the water consumed in daily operations. Read More

New England Frito-Lay Plant Goes 'Off the Grid'

A Frito-Lay factory in Connecticut now generates its own electricity with a combined heat and power system that enables the 75-acre site to ease the demand on the country's Northeast power grid. Read More

Green IT's New Frontier: "Power-Capping" the Data Center

Looking to get the most energy savings out of your data center? The newest technique, called "power-capping," may be your answer, even though at first blush it sounds like a very scary proposition. Read More

Four Companies Charged with Labeling Rayon Clothing As Bamboo

The Federal Trade Commission charged four clothing and textile companies with saying their products are made from bamboo when they are actually made of rayon. The FTC also levied a series of charges over false and unsubstantiated claims the companies made about their products and manufacturing processes. Read More

Scaling Up Sustainability at McKesson

Creating a coordinated and effective sustainability at a company with 32,000 employees in more than 300 locations offers a number of challenges, of course; but McKesson's process also highlights opportunities for firms of all sizes. Read More

Paper Recycling Case Studies Outline Path to Success

In-depth case studies of some winners of the American Forest & Paper Association's recycling awards show how businesses, municipalities and schools have developed innovative and highly successful recycling programs. Read More

Creative Solution to Banned-Liquid Waste Problem Takes Off at PDX

The Transportation Safety Agency banned liquids from carry-on bags exactly three years ago this week, forcing millions of travelers to check their luggage or throw away bottled drinks and toiletries. Some airports are toying with new programs to both trim the mountains of waste and the expense of processing it. But one airport found a way to cut the costs. Read More

Developing Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought

A new article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology looks at the market for reuse of exported computers and other electronics and finds that there is plenty of life in those old machines -- although e-waste exports still pose a significant environmental problem. Read More