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ENS) – Skiers have a choice this winter between truly environmentally friendly resorts and those whose "green" practices are more of a snow job. A coalition of grassroots conservation groups on Wednesday released a "scorecard" report that grades commercial ski areas throughout the west on a host of environmental criteria. Read More

Multinationals are becoming more transparent but fail to address major environmental and social impacts, according to a new report. Read More

Sports apparel giant Nike has signed on with The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies to endorse the group's code of voluntary, "beyond-compliance" environmental conduct. Read More

Reuters) – Calvert Group, a mutual fund company best known for its socially responsible portfolios which exclude companies involved in tobacco, gambling, weapons and other activities, has launched what it bills as the first-ever socially screened technology fund, the company said yesterday. Read More

Aquacultural output is the fastest-growing sector of the world food economy. Indeed, fish farming is poised to overtake cattle ranching as a food source. Read More

In a cemetery world first, a Brazilian company has landed an ISO 14000 certification, proving its commitment to establishing environmentally friendly business management guidelines. Read More

The $250,000 Millennium World Food Prize has been awarded to biochemist Evangelina Villegas of Mexico and plant geneticist Surinder Vasal of India. Villegas is the first woman ever to receive the World Food Prize. Read More

A new partnership aims to help small businesses in the Wales tourism industry get a grip on their water woes. Read More

Maytag Appliances has teamed with three of country music’s brightest singers -- Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, and Jennifer Day -- to spread the word about the energy and water conservation benefits of high-efficiency appliances. The venue: a free, family concert series called Making Music Matter -- A Family Concert for Conservation. Read More

There are those for whom nature, in at least some of its manifestations, is sacred, beyond price. Perhaps nowhere are these conflicts more apparent than in the global climate-change arena. Read More