Leadership

Since Xanterra Parks & Resorts first announced an aggressive company-wide seafood policy three years ago, the company's sustainable cuisine menu offerings have grown substantially. Read More

For those who believe that beauty is only skin deep, meet Dominique Conseil, a native Frenchman who now heads the Minnesota-based Aveda Corp, a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of personal care and lifestyle products and services. By Penny Bonda and Katie Sosnowchik Read More

As part of the company’s commitment to environmental excellence, Johnson & Johnson recognized 14 of its companies, facilities, teams and individuals that have demonstrated significant progress toward achieving the Corporation’s Environmental Strategic Vision. Read More

Business Ethics, a magazine focused on corporate responsibility, has released its rankings of the largest publicly traded companies based on social responsibility for 2004. Read More

Some Xerox Corp. employees stopped using plastic spoons and forks in company cafeterias. Others found a way to turn more waste into electrical power to heat homes. And still others devised a process that reduced the amount of water used in a key manufacturing process. Read More

Starbucks Coffee Sourcing Guidelines are coming to the end of a two-year pilot; this has proved a surprising success for the coffee company whose brand has become synonymous with cappuccinos and skinny lattes on main streets around the world, as well as the target of activists in the wake of the Seattle protests. By Yasmin Crowther Read More

Potlatch Corp. has become the first U.S.-headquartered, publicly traded forest products company to certify its forest management practices under the standards of the internationally recognized Forest Stewardship Council. Read More

Helps building managers to understand and implement integrated pest management practices. Read More

DuPont Composite Recycle Technology has received the 2004 environmental award for New Technology in Materials and Processes from the Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers for its closed-loop nylon recycling process. Read More

Chiquita Brands International recently announced that independent auditors have certified its banana farms in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama to the Social Accountability 8000(1) labor and human rights standard and the EUREPGAP(2) food safety standard. Read More