Five Ways to Convince Your CFO that Sustainability Pays
CFOs haven't been at the center of the corporate sustainability movement. In my job as CFO, sustainability is a strategic imperative. And it should be for your CFO, too. But it's up to you, as someone who cares about sustainability, to convince your chief financial leader that sustainability matters. Read More
Win a New HP LaserJet Printer for Your Small Business
HP is announcing new additions to its LaserJet Pro line of small, powerful printers, and GreenBiz.com is offering three printers as prizes in a new contest for its readers. Read More
How to Develop a Sustainable Water Strategy
A new report highlights just how huge future water shortages will be; so what should the average business do to address water-related risks? Read More
The Twins' Target Field Scores as a Green Building All-Star
Target Field, the Minnesota Twins' new $545 million ballpark, has earned LEED-Silver certification, becoming the second Major League Baseball stadium to pass muster under the standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council. Read More
KFC Lands in Hot Water for its Packaging
In the latest sign of how forestry and paper issues are coming to the fore for companies in almost all industries, the fast food chain is currently under fire from environmental groups for using virgin forests to supply the paper for its packaging. Read More
GE's New 40-Watt LED Bulb Will Last 25,000 Hours
General Electric will start selling a 40-watt LED bulb later this year that will last 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs, which are being phased out in the U.S. Read More
Waitrose Dumps Bagged Milk, Another U.K. Retailer Embraces It
U.K. supermarket Waitrose is switching from plastic bags back to plastic bottles for its milk at the same time Sainsbury's is rolling out bagged milk at all its stores. Read More
Inside the World's Greenest Data Center
Hewlett Packard's Wynyard data center in Stockton, U.K., has turned an old transport warehouse into a supersized, super-green computing facilty -- one the company says is the world's greenest. Read More
Target Goes from Zero to 60 on In-Store Electronics Recycling
Target has added recycling bins for electronics, ink cartridges and bottles to its stores, and Canada is gaining more ewaste recycling thanks to Goodwill and Dell. Read More
PUE to Become Global Standard for Data Center Efficiency
The Green Grid today announced a global effort to develop an Energy Star-like rating for data center energy efficiency, using its popular power usage effectiveness ratio as the benchmark for green data centers. Read More