Japan, U.S. Come out Tops In Use of Green IT for Emissions Reductions

A new ICT Sustainability Index released by IDC ranks the G20 countries on how well they've incorporated technologies from smart grid to teleworking that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5.8 gigatons by 2020. Read More

Office Depot's Campaign to Help Green the Workplace

Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working world's top supplier of eco-friendly office products. Read More

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Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability

The latest in our series of GreenBiz Reports explores and outlines the 10 best practices for bringing all your employees on board with your company's sustainability projects. Read More

10 Best Practices for Building Green Teams

GreenBiz.com and Green Impact have partnered to release a new report, "Green Teams: Engaging Employees in Sustainability," that includes 10 tips on how to support and guide Green Teams. Read More

Getting a Grip on Your Company's Toxic Footprint

At first glance it seems an impossible task to take on the hundreds or thousands of chemicals in your company's supply chain, but a number of companies have developed useful approaches to measuring and lowering their use of hazardous chemicals. Read More

BASF Launches Biodegradable Shrink Film, Paper Coating

BASF has launched a number of new biodegradable products, including shrink film, paper coating and mosquito net packaging.   Read More

Post Office's First Sustainability Report Charts Agency's Green Path

In releasing its first-ever sustainability data, the U.S. Postal Service shows that it has cut total energy use by 9 percent in the past three years, while making strides in e-waste recycling and energy intensity. Read More

Autodesk Draws Up a New Way to Set Carbon Footprint Goals

The Autodesk team announced this week it has devised a new way of setting goals to reduce its carbon footprint. It's called the Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilizing Targets, or C-FACT, and the company hopes other businesses will adopt it and even help Autodesk make it better. Read More

How Companies Manage the Sustainability Tradeoffs

The director of MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment considers the decisions companies have to make if they want to be sustainable -- and challenges some of the conventional wisdom. Read More

Vetrazzo Gets a Green Audit to Back Its Product Claims

The manufacturer of recycled-glass surfaces announced during Greenbuild 2009 that it had published an Environmental Product Declaration, allowing customers to verify the reduced impacts of its product line. Read More