The Power of One: eBay

The company made it relatively easy for Karenina Susilo to get outside the box of her regular job to develop the company's innovative reusable shipping box. Read More

Conquering the Green Team Plateau for Sustainability Leadership

The green team model is an efficient way to tackle sustainability goals and engage employees that are hungry for more opportunities to boost their company's sustainability efforts. Read More

10 Things Business Schools Must Teach About Sustainable Development

The World Environment Center recently brought together thought leaders from the business, academic and NGO communities to identify the critical skills needed by business leaders implementing sustainable development. Here are 10 ideas that emerged to help business schools integrate sustainable development into their teachings. Read More

Seventh Generation: Not Coming Clean on Hollender's Departure

Seventh Generation's ouster of co-founder Jeffrey Hollender remains something of a mystery, even as details emerge about the sequence of events that led up to his unexpected departure last month. Read More

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Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics, Oct. 2010

The 16th iteration of Greenpeace's ranking of technology companies finds Nokia and Sony Ericsson with commanding leads, and Nintendo still sunk in dead last. Read More

Gartner's Magic Quadrant Tracks the Evolution of E-Waste Disposal

"Out of sight, out of mind" is no longer a viable IT asset disposition strategy, and a definitive taxonomy from research firm Gartner spells out which firms are best able to meet companies' needs for secure, responsible electronics recycling. Read More

Newsweek's Green Rankings: What They Mean … and Don't

Today, Newsweek releases its 2010 “Green Rankings,” its second annual effort to rate and rank the largest companies in the U.S. and the world. Dell and HP switched places for #1 and #2, and after that, who really cares? The other 498 companies, that’s who. Read More

Life in the Real World after EDF Climate Corps

People often remark on the incredible amount of financial savings uncovered by green MBAs participating in the EDF Climate Corps program. Just as remarkable is how these fellows parlayed their summer experiences into long-term careers at the nexus of business and the environment. Read More

Do Green Businesses Have Happier Workers?

A study that looks at sustainability from an employee productivity level rather than a financial level, finds that productivity goes up as much as 40 percent if workers perceive that their job is for the greater good. Read More

5 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Care about Sustainability

Small businesses are hard-pressed enough to stay afloat in the best of times, but as sustainability becomes central to business survival, here are five lessons companies of all sizes are learning about the shift to sustainability. Read More