Nature
Cash flow: What's the economic value of a healthy, abundant river?
The Colorado River brings 16 million jobs and $1.4 trillion in economic benefits to the Southwest's economy, a recent study finds. Caesars Entertainment calls on the business community to protect the river by conserving water. Read More
Water Use Tops Climate Change as an Immediate Environmental Risk for Businesses
Water or Climate: What should be my priority? This is the big question that challenged Steelcase and Quantis to look further into the assessment of two important environmental impacts. Read More
Assessing the Critical Impact: Water Versus Climate Change
Water or Climate: What should be my priority? This is the big question that challenged Steelcase and Quantis to look further into the assessment of two important environmental impacts. Read More
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar flies toward energy independence
Here's how this Southern California airbase's mix of recycling, renewables and water conservation won an EPA Federal Green Challenge Award. Read More
The environmental mortgage: Microfinance meets ecosystems
Microfinance models long have been used to encourage economic opportunity amid extreme poverty. Expand that strategy to include investments in natural capital and the results could get even more interesting. Read More
Levi's water initiatives make green while saving blue
Levi Strauss & Co. is a pioneer in water-saving sustainability innovations. Levi's Michael Kobori discusses the company's three-pronged approach. Read More
How Dow, Novo Nordisk and others own their indirect impacts
No business is an island. Make the most of transparency and reporting by valuing externalities to show how your company affects the world. Read More
5 ways to apply natural capital valuation in your business
Shadow pricing, designed to reflect future market value of underpriced natural resources, is one major way companies incorporate sustainability. Read More
Where's the Valentine's Day love for sustainability?
When it comes to sustainability, too many card and jewelery makers break our hearts. Can companies change to win us back? Read More
EcoPlanet Bamboo aims to make alternative timber big business
As anti-deforestation efforts ramp up, one bamboo supplier aims to take the industry from a "hippie business" to a serious, industrialized option for Fortune 500 companies. Read More
