Corporate Social Responsibility: What the Smart CEO Needs to Know

Dr. Terry F. Yosie, vice president of the chemical industry's Responsible Care initiative, identifies five essential issues that CEOs should focus on to achieve the appropriate balance for their companies' private and public responsibilities. Read More

Apple Launches Free Computer Take-Back Program

Apple has launched a free computer take-back program, offering U.S. customers environmentally friendly recycling of their old computer when they buy a new Mac. Read More

France Introduces Compulsory Eco-Labels for New Cars

Eco-labels reflecting CO2 emissions became a legal requirement for all new cars sold in France this week as part of the country's climate change policy. Read More

Nestlé: Corporate Citizenship and the Value Chain

Nestlé is traveling its own road with a proposed new corporate social responsibility model. By Ken Stier Read More

Ideology, Totalizing Discourses, and Authenticity

Where should one seek grounding in a world where even the scientific discourse is losing at least some of its privileged status? By Brad Allenby Read More

Ford Launches Customer Carbon Offset Program

Ford Motor Company and TerraPass have announced "Greener Miles, a program offering Ford vehicle owners the opportunity to offset the climate impact of their driving through the support of projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read More

Harnessing Daylight for Energy Savings

Designing buildings properly and controlling glare and solar heat gain can cut energy bills by more than half. By David Kozlowski Read More

What is the Voluntary Carbon Offset Standard?

ClimateBiz expert Dr. Mark C. Trexler tackles your questions on managing climate risk. Read More

Continental Divide: CSR in the U.S. vs. the U.K.

My research into U.S. and U.K. job postings in the corporate responsibility field demonstrates how a key difference in approach has significantly affected the "state of CSR" in each country. By Ellen Weinreb Read More

Timber Giant Signs $300 Million Forest-Preservation Deal

International Paper, The Nature Conservancy, and The Conservation Fund have reached an agreement to protect 218,000 acres of forestlands across ten states in the single largest private land conservation sale in the history of the South, and one of the largest in the U.S. Read More