The Port of Long Beach and oil company BP have agreed to a collaboration that will allow vessels to shut down their engines, plug into dockside electricity and “cold-iron” while docked at the port. Read More

Regular columnist Gil Friend drafts a "sustainable business vision statement" -- and asks for your input. Read More

A new report, "Fooling Investors and Fooling Themselves" identifies aggressive accounting and asset management tactics that can lead to environmental accounting fraud. Read More

The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens won’t win a gold medal for its environmental friendliness, according to a new report from Greenpeace. Read More

Baxter International, the U.S. healthcare company, has launched a Web site to provide information and updates on its economic, environmental and social responsibility performance. Read More

The paperless office is still a distant dream. Meanwhile, a growing movement is pushing for more recycled content, and tree-free alternatives make the case to end logging forever. By Jim Motavalli Read More

The company has joined the United Nations Global Compact, an international network of corporations, U.N. agencies, trade unions, and non-governmental organizations that support a shared set of nine principles on the environment, labor, and human rights. Read More

This week, Vons celebrates 10 years since it became the first supermarket chain to realize a composting program for its produce trims and culls. Read More

The Bayer Group has become the first private-sector company to partner the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in environmental projects for young people. Read More

Shell has built a hard-won reputation for taking human rights seriously. But activists want to know why the company resisted the U.N.'s proposed "Norms on Business and Human Rights." John Elkington asked the man in charge. Read More