Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever

The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don't think so. Read More

The Green Business Decade in Review

As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't. Read More

resource

Energy Efficiency and Real Estate: Opportunities for Investors

This report, from the investor activist group Ceres, explores how the current economic and policy climate in the United States is creating new momentum for energy-efficient buildings. Read More

Office Depot's Campaign to Help Green the Workplace

Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working world's top supplier of eco-friendly office products. Read More

resource

Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability

The latest in our series of GreenBiz Reports explores and outlines the 10 best practices for bringing all your employees on board with your company's sustainability projects. Read More

10 Best Practices for Building Green Teams

GreenBiz.com and Green Impact have partnered to release a new report, "Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability," that includes 10 tips on how to support and guide Green Teams. Read More

The Eight Biggest Myths about Sustainability in Business

Companies large and small, and in every industry, still hold on to a number of surprising misconceptions about the risks and rewards of implementing sustainability practices. Here's how to dispel those myths. Read More

Putting the Triple Bottom Line to Work

Although a recent article on GreenBiz.com questioned the usefulness of the triple bottom line concept, four key insights show how TBL can benefit organizations of any size and in any industry. Read More

resource

Green Buildings and Productivity

Researchers at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and CB Richard Ellis find that people who work in green buildings are more productive and call in sick less often than employees who work in conventional buildings.   Read More

Lipton: Now That's Green Tea!

Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there's no such thing as garbage. Lipton's employees and management have developed just such a system in Suffolk, Va. Read More