Dell Backs Away from Carbon Neutrality, Focuses on Efficiency & E-Waste

The company's latest CSR report downplays its green power purchases and highlights Dell's growing e-waste hauls and improved energy efficiency and performance-per-watt metrics. Read More

Why Employee Engagement is Critical to Sustaining Sustainability

Whether your company is pursuing a traditional, metrics-based sustainability program, or a more holistic strategy, getting your employees on board is critical to success. Read More

Apple Takes a Hit for Pollution in Its Supply Chain

After months of investigation, a group of Chinese NGOs have detailed high levels of pollution and environmental non-compliance among some of Apple's known and suspected suppliers in the region. Read More

Adidas Joins Nike, Puma in Committing to Zero Toxic Pollution by 2020

The world's second largest sports brand has been working on a cross-industry partnership to phase out hazardous chemicals in its supply chain, in response to a challenge from Greenpeace. Read More

5 Rules to Make Sense of Using Cloud Computing in Your Business

Traditional business IT is often highly inefficient, but moving to the cloud is fraught with unknowns and concerns. Here's how to best balance the business and sustainability benefits of cloud computing against the associated risks. Read More

Sustainable Packaging's New Definition Emphasizes Lifecycle Impacts

 The Sustainable Packaging Coalition puts a bigger emphasis on a package's lifecycle impacts with its updated definition of sustainable packaging. Read More

Hyatt Cuts Energy, Water & Waste by 10% on Path to 2015 Green Goals

The hotel chain's vice president of corporate responsibility says green teams have been key to the company's success in making progress on its 2015 sustainability goals. Read More

Students Give Kimberly-Clark a Lesson in Design Thinking

Last fall, Kimberly-Clark Health Care turned to students at the Rhode Island School of Design for inspiration and ideas about a second life for Kimguard, the most widely used sterilization material on the market. Read More

Ford-Toyota Partnership Shows Standards Drive Innovation

 Ford and Toyota’s hybrid vehicle partnership will accelerate innovation, deliver better technology to the market sooner, and add to the existing fuel-efficient supplier job base of 150,000 workers. Read More

4 Steps to Get You On the Path to Zero Waste

If you look at it from a purely business perspective, paying someone to take away a revenue stream is just a bad idea. Here are the lessons you can learn from zero-waste projects from Walmart, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and others. Read More