Strategy

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

The green team model is an efficient way to tackle sustainability goals and engage employees that are hungry for more opportunities to boost their company's sustainability efforts. Read More

The conference and meeting industry in the U.S. generates huge amounts of waste and environmental impacts. Fortunately, there are a number of simple and cost-effective ways to make any meeting greener, starting today. Read More

Unilever unveiled its 2020 sustainability plan yesterday, and no one can accuse the company of playing small ball. Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan will attempt to do something that will be incredibly hard to achieve: growing a company's sales without growing its environmental footprint. Read More

On the heels of similar long-term targets set by rival Procter & Gamble, the consumer products company aims to double sales while cutting the water, waste and carbon impacts of its products -- and its customers' use of those products -- by 2020. Read More

In a bid to cut air pollution, the City of London began spraying a "dust suppressant" today that acts as an adhesive to paste particulate matter to the streets instead of re-circulating in the air. Read More

One area that is all too often overlooked in corporate sustainability plans is green procurement -- a move that, if done right, can raise the environmental performance of an entire industry. Read More

Interface's Ray Anderson asks, "Is there still a need for the Interfaces of the world now that some of the world's biggest firms are also climbing toward the summit?" Read More

Although improving energy efficiency can be as simple as gathering low-hanging fruit, smart companies will take efficiency projects far beyond the usual suspects. Read More

When the coffee giant announced its goal to get all of its new stores LEED-certified starting this year, it was the culmination of an effort to address its biggest environmental impacts. Read More