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 Coca-Cola shares the lessons it's learned as it developed and brought to market a plastic drink bottle that's 1/3 plant-based. Read More

A new report uses data from Trucost to find that the cost of environmental damage equaled 11 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and was 20 percent larger than pension fund losses from the financial crisis. Read More

The French firm hopes to use its experience with France's largest enterprises and a zero-upfront-cost billing model to crack an already crowded U.S. market wide open. Read More

In the wake of a complaint filed by an advocacy group, Ben & Jerry's will remove the phrase "all natural" on its products that contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and other questionably natural ingredients. Read More

Bottom-line initiatives are critical to staying viable and competitive while benefiting society and the environment. They’ll grow profits, for a while anyway. But they aren't a path to continued growth or advantage. To consistently grow the bottom-line, sustainability innovation needs to drive the top-line. Read More

"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. Read More

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923. Read More

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.   Read More

 Two companies have teamed up to turn some of the 50 million coconuts that fall every year into reusable packaging. Read More

In a recent op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, one of my colleagues explained why he thinks corporate social responsibility is at best irrelevant and probably socially damaging. Yet when corporations blatantly work to cause government to fail in its task of solving collective problems, how can we not demand CSR? How can we not support environmental activists who work to hold such corporations accountable?   Read More