Circular Economy
Cisco's Packaging Diet: Just How Sustainable is It?
Eighteen months after I first profiled Cisco's efforts to cut their packaging waste -- and save big bucks in the process -- I got a chance to see if the project is thriving or struggling. Read More
How Waste Management Treats Waste as Resource
For Waste Management, garbage isn't just garbage anymore. Read More
How Steve Jobs Inspired a Sustainable Future
Can we take Jobs' legacy of fanatical dedication to continual improvement and apply it to business areas like supply chain, workers' rights, and business impacts globally, we will all be living in a better world. Read More
How She Leads: Coca-Cola's Beatriz Perez
The first-ever chief sustainability officer at the beverage giant discusses what it's like to be the first to hold the CSO role at Coke, why the company is excited about the PlantBottle, and the importance of listening to feedback from customers. Read More
Shaw Floors' Wall-to-Wall (and Cradle-to-Cradle) Success Story
The world's largest carpet manufacturer -- owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway -- is also the world's largest carpet recycler, and is rolling out recycled, and recyclable, products at an unprecedented level. Read More
SAP Helps Panasonic Apply Sustainability Software to E-Waste Laws
Managing your e-waste can be a complicated task anywhere in the world, but if you're trying to do so across your global operations, it can be a lot of balls to juggle. Here's how Panasonic found a cost- and time-saving partner in SAP. Read More
How Competitive Strategy Can Shape Corporate Sustainability
The 'Five Forces Model of Competition' illustrates the ways that companies can use sustainability initiatives in partnership with, and in opposition to, their industry rivals to further the cause of greening operations. 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
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
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