Supply Chain
Staples to Reward Customers for Recycling Ink and Toner Cartridges
Next month, Staples will become the first national retailer to reward customers for recycling any brand of ink or toner cartridge. Read More
Buying Environmentally Preferable Office Equipment
This fact sheet is intended to help institutions easily adopt a purchasing program for printers, copiers and fax machines that accounts for social and environmental concerns. Read More
Green Movement Grows in Global Hospitality Industry: Report
Ernst & Young examines the eco-friendly efforts of hotels and resorts in eight regions of the world, finds progress in the greening of the hospitality industry and identifies 10 areas in which the business could do better. Read More
Wal-Mart: A Bully for the Greater Good
As the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart has long been a powerful force in the global economy -- a bully, its critics would say. These days, though, the company is winning praise for using its leverage -- that's a polite term for bullying -- to protect the environment and help the poor. Read More
Rattling Supply Chains
This report imagines a world with water shortages and stricter climate change, forestry and biofuel laws and policies. It then shows how those issues could impact the prices of key commodities for consumer goods companies. Read More
UPS Goes Green with Paperless Printer
UPS has found a way to reduce its paper-waste problem with a new combination scanner and paperless printing device designed by HP. Read More
Greening the Supply Chain in Emerging Markets: Some Lessons From the Field
The second in our GreenBiz Reports series, this study by Terry Yosie of the World Environment Center looks at successful strategies for improving the performance of supply chains throughout the developing world. Read More
The 21st Century Supply Chain Executive: Global and Green
This report from international talent firm Korn Ferry outlines what skills will be needed to make a company's supply chain as efficient and sustainable as possible in the coming years. Read More
Wal-Mart Ramps Up Standards for Suppliers in China, Around the Globe
Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott with the company's head of international operations and the firm's business chief in China delivered a stern message to suppliers of the world's biggest retailer: Go green the Wal-Mart way or Wal-Mart will take its business elsewhere. Read More
The Trouble with Oreos
Not only is the world flat, it is amazingly interconnected. Who would have thought that Oreos or Cheez-Its could contribute to deforestation and global warming? Read More