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

Putting the Triple Bottom Line to Work

Although a recent article on GreenBiz.com questioned the usefulness of the triple bottom line concept, four key insights show how TBL can benefit organizations of any size and in any industry. Read More

Taiwan Skyscraper TAIPEI 101 Aims to Be World's Tallest Green Building

The owners of Taiwan's landmark skyscraper TAIPEI 101 are teaming up with SL+A International Asia Inc., Siemens and EcoTech International Inc. for an 18-month renovation that project partners say will make the highrise the tallest green building in the world. Read More

Kraft to Increase Purchases of Rainforest Alliance Certified Cocoa Ten-Fold by 2012

Kraft Foods vowed to increase the amount of Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa beans ten-fold to 30,000 tons by late 2012, to be used in two premium chocolate brands sold in the European and North American markets. Read More