Supply Chain
Walmart's Emerging Role in Sustainability Consulting
Three years before Walmart announced it would squeeze 20 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain, the retailer rolled out its Supplier Energy Efficiency Program with the goal of helping its suppliers save electricity and money, in turn bringing down the price of products. Read More
OfficeMax Reusable Shipping Bins Deliver Less Waste
OfficeMax is offering a new reusable shipping bin program to help businesses that make frequent orders reduce packaging waste. Read More
P&G Launches U.S. Campaign to Highlight 'Future Friendly' Products
Three years after its launch in the U.K. and Canada, next month will see the U.S. kickoff of a campaign aimed at educating consumers about buying and using environmentally friendly products from a number of P&G brands. Read More
How to Embed Sustainability Into Your Company's DNA
"The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work. Read More
How Cisco's Packaging Diet Saves $24 Million a Year
The technology giant has implemented three best practices as part of a sustainability pilot project that are netting huge savings in materials and transportation costs as well as waste management. Read More
IBM Achieves First Full Phase-Out of Toxic Compounds
IBM has eliminated from its chip manufacturing processes the use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), two compounds found to be bioaccumulative and persistent. Read More
Two Cheers for Walmart's CO2 Pledge
Today, Walmart made its first major commitment to reduce greenhouse gases -- but in typical fashion, rather than set a tough goal that might affect its own growth curve, the company plans to turn up the pressure on its thousands of suppliers to reduce their emissions. Read More
How to Work with Your Vendors to Go on a Packaging Diet
Even if you're conscientious about the three R's when it comes to packaging, odds are your vendors are still shipping you excess materials. These three steps can help you ship smarter and greener. Read More
Corporations Cause $2.2T in Environmental Damage Every Year
A new, unpublished report from the United Nations calculates the actual cost of pollution from business operations as part of a long-term plan to make companies accountable for their environmental impacts. Read More
Why eBay is a Green Giant
Can a company dedicated to buying and selling goods thrive while trying to convince people to consume less? eBay and its dedicated green team are working to promote the benefits of buying used products as the only kind of green shopping. Read More