Japanese companies are making strides in eco-design, recycling, and lead-free soldering technologies -– and could help European businesses cope with tighter EU legislation on products and waste. Read More

During the past decade, Chiquita Brands International, the company that invented the banana industry, has been gradually reinventing it, one bunch at a time. By Tensie Whelan Read More

Today, hard numbers make sustainable design look good; soft costs make the picture even better. By Steven Morton Read More

Penn State engineers have shown they can add specially treated cooking oils to low-sulfur diesel fuel to reduce friction and wear. Read More

Ford Motor Company and Alcan Inc. have launched the North American automotive industry's first "closed-loop" recycling program for aluminum sheet scrap. Read More

Health care giant Baxter Healthcare Corp. has become the first medical supplier to be deemed a "Champion for Change" in the Hospitals for a Healthy Environment program, a landmark initiative to improve environmental performance in health care. Read More

Large purchasers have incredible power to push markets in socially beneficial directions. Yet harnessing this purchasing power often isn’t easy. By Jim Motavalli and Josh Harkinson Read More

How does a company with annual revenues in the billions and more than 700 contract factories worldwide profitably integrate ecology and social equity into the way it does business, every day and at every level of operation? Ask Nike. By William Mcdonough and Michael Braungart Read More

Increasingly, young entrepreneurs are starting their own businesses with sustainability in mind. By Johanna Schultz Read More

For Albertson’s, Inc., one of the largest retail food and drug chains in the U.S., “waste is anything that is not an asset and nothing but lack of imagination.” Over the past few years the multibillion-dollar company has made it a priority to reduce waste and maximize resources, implementing energy-saving policies like dimming the lights in its stores and helping develop a 100% recyclable container for shipping produce. By Emily Rabin Read More