Leadership
Home Depot Gives Away 100,000 Energy-Efficient Bulbs to Californians
The Home Depot is helping California residents save an estimated $4.8 million in energy costs with an unprecedented energy-efficient light bulb giveaway. Read More
DuPont Scientists Honored for Inventing CFC Alternatives
Twenty years after international scientists determined that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were impacting the ozone layer, three DuPont scientists are being recognized for their invention of non-ozone-depleting alternatives. Read More
Greening the Bottom Line: California Companies Save Money by Reducing Global Warming Pollution
Highlights 12 businesses or institutions that are cutting energy costs, reducing exposure to volatile fossil fuel and electricity prices, and attracting environmentally aware customers. Read More
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