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A Road Map for Natural Capitalism

Details how businesses can adopt the principles of natural capitalism. Read More

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Choose Green Report: Greening Your Property

The hotel and motel guide to environmental management. Read More

Paving the Planet, Harvesting a Bumper Crop

It doesn’t look good for cropland. Cars are chewing up valuable acres at a faster clip each year, leaving agriculture less land on which to grow. Something has to give. Read More

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London Turns Rising Groundwater Into Liquid Asset

ENS) – Engineers are finding innovative uses for London's rising groundwaters, including filling lakes at Buckingham Palace. Read More

Brazil Poised To Join Top Ranks Of Can Recyclers

AP) – Brazilians don't pay deposits on containers, rarely separate their trash and think little of tossing an empty soda can from a car window. "Please Don't Litter" signs are roundly ignored. Yet Brazil is poised to catch up with Japan as a leader among the world's biggest countries in recycling aluminum cans. Read More

Climate Change and Social Engineering

Some key lessons gleaned from the recent climate-change talks in The Hague. Read More

Marriott Develops Its First Carbon-Neutral CHP Plant

The London Heathrow Marriott has announced that its new combined heat and power plant will be carbon neutral, the company's first ever such initiative. Read More

Ski Areas Graded on Environmental Practices

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

Team Spotlights Top 50 Corporate Sustainability Reports

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

Nike Endorses Beyond-Compliance Aims

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