Leadership
Cargill Announces Plans for Biodiesel Facility in Kansas City
Cargill and the Missouri Soybean Association have announced plans for a 40-million gallon-per-year biodiesel plant and 30-million-pound food-grade glycerin refinery adjacent to Cargill's existing soybean processing facility in Kansas City. Read More
GM Opens First-Ever LEED-Certified Auto Plant
General Motors' new Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant has received a gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program -- the only automotive manufacturing plant in the world to receive LEED certification. Read More
Sagawa Express Co.: Accepting the Challenge to Reduce Net CO2 Emissions
As carbon dioxide emissions from the Japanese transportation sector continue to climb, Kyoto-based Sagawa Express is answering the call for a cleaner trucking company. By Kazunori Kobayashi Read More
Apple Launches Free Computer Take-Back Program
Apple has launched a free computer take-back program, offering U.S. customers environmentally friendly recycling of their old computer when they buy a new Mac. Read More
Nestlé: Corporate Citizenship and the Value Chain
Nestlé is traveling its own road with a proposed new corporate social responsibility model. By Ken Stier Read More
Base of the Pyramid: Sustainable Business from the Bottom up
Robert S. Katz profiles two new businesses that are harnessing the poor's ingenuity and entrepreneurship to profitably serve basic community needs. Read More
ACEEE Rates Cleanest Vehicles of 2006
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has announced the year's "greenest" and "meanest" vehicles, along with the environmental scorings of all model year 2006 cars and passenger trucks. Read More
SC Johnson Tops Own Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals
As a charter member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program, SC Johnson committed to reduce its GHG emissions per pound of product by 23% from 2000 to 2005; by 2005 SC Johnson had reduced its GHGs by 24%. Read More
Timberland Introduces New Packaging Initiative
The company has pledged to place a "nutritional label" on each of its boxes to educate consumers about the product they are purchasing, including where it was manufactured, how it was produced, and its effect on the environment. Read More
A Closer Look at Business Education: China
This January 2006 brief identifies current trends in how -- and what -- the Chinese MBAs of tomorrow are learning today. Read More