Five Stages on the Sustainability Journey

Almost every company, large or small, progresses through these five stages on their sustainability journey, and firms that are wondering how to take their sustainability efforts to the next level may benefit from knowing that even the greenest firms have also passed through these stages. Read More

CEOs Can Embed a Culture of Sustainability Beyond their Departure

A new report from the Network for Business Sustainability looks at how corporate leaders have succeeded in building their sustainability efforts into the DNA of the company, regardless of who is sitting in the C-suite. Read More

WWF Takes Your 'Please Don't Print' Request to the Next Level

A new file format developed by the World Wildlife Fund is a simple but potentialy paper-saving twist on the PDF: It's literally impossible to print. Read More

The Power of One: Coca-Cola

Bryan Jacob, energy and climate protection manager for Coca-Cola, is in charge of Coke's global effort to reduce the greenhouse gases that are emitted by the company's 10 million vending machines and coolers. Read More

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Brewing Green

10 commitments to sustainability from brewers in Britain, including a 67 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020. Read More

Green Grid Unveils New Metrics for Data Center Carbon, Water Use

The tech industry association is expanding on its ubiquitous PUE formula to help data center owners and operators get a fuller picture of their environmental impacts by measuring the carbon outputs and water use of data centers. Read More

How Starbucks Saves Millions a Year in Energy with LED Lighting

When Starbucks converted the lighting in more than 7,000 of its stores from to LEDs developed for the company by GE, the company ended up saving roughly $4 million per year in energy costs, and proving that LEDs are ready for prime-time. Read More

Nike Shares Environmental Scoring Tool For Product Design

Nike has released a public version of a design tool it created to help its designers make better-informed decisions in the earliest stage Read More

How Albertsons Achieved Zero Waste at Two Grocery Stores

Now diverting more than two millions pounds of garbage from local landfills, the two Santa Barbara stores have also achieved a goal of making their waste stream "revenue neutral," meaning the combined savings and new revenue streams created by going zero waste are offsetting the cost of handling it. Read More

CPG Firms Set Zero Net Deforestation Goal at COP16

On the first day of the international climate change negotiations in Mexico, some of the world's largest consumer goods companies threw their collective weight behind efforts to tackle deforestation and to phase out potent greenhouse gases used in refrigeration. Read More