BP to Close Its Solar Business after 40 Years

The oil giant insists it remains committed to its alternative energy division, and is on track to invest $8 billion in green technology by 2015; the company says solar is too much of a commodity to make a profit. Read More

Europe Launches Eco-innovation Action Plan

The new project, which is critical to delivering smart, sustainable growth to the European Union by 2020, seeks to help businesses to deliver green growth and environmental benefits. Read More

How the Sustainability Consortium Creates 'Hot Spots' for Innovation

The coalition's creative collaboration model is tacking the biggest problems in corporate sustainability, and in the process developing a way to create truly sustainable consumer goods. Read More

Office Depot's Three-Pronged Strategy for Corporate Sustainability

Yalmaz Siddiqui, the head of environmental strategy at the office retailer, explains how the motto 'Be Greener, Buy Greener and Sell Greener' shapes the company's actions. Read More

Sustainability, Employees and Social Media: 4 Keys to Success

Getting everyone on board with your company's sustainability efforts is the single most important factor for its eventual succes. Here's how companies large and small are making it work. Read More

Climate Change and the Consumption Trap

After more than two decades of talking about sustainable consumption -- and in spite of advances in resource efficiencies and renewable energy -- we are not all that much closer to consuming sustainably. Read More

Just How Sustainable Is Walmart?

A new series of articles in Grist drags Walmart over the coals for not being as sustainable as it could be. While the author raises valid points about Walmart's level of action, there is more to the story. Read More

Inside Google's Big, Bold & Risky Atlantic Wind Project

A multi-billion-dollar 'superhighway' to connect offshore wind turbines to the US electric grid sounds like a can't-lose idea, but it's adrift without clearing some big financial, regulatory and technological hurdles. Read More

How Souplantation Became a Certified Green Restaurant Chain

The San Diego-based chain's 121 Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes locations received Silver-level certification from the Green Restaurant Association Read More

7 Success Stories from the Journey to Zero Waste

The winners of the annual StopWaste Partnership Business Efficiency Awards offer useful examples of how companies large and small are putting their operations under the magnifying glass to cut costs and trim waste. Read More