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A second U.K. retailer has started offering Dairy Crest milk in bags, which use 75 percent less packaging than milk in jugs. Read More

The Green Grid has released a new, updated set of guidelines for calculating the Power Usage Effectiveness ratio, one that aims to make the standard both more accurate and more widely adopted. Read More

3M, Cleveland Clinic, Dow Chemical, Grubb & Ellis, Marriott International, Nissan, Target Corporation and Walmart will take part in the the Global Superior Energy Performance Partnership to speed efficiency improvements in commercial buildings and industrial facilities. Read More

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has come a long way in the past few years, evolving from a niche activity carried out by academics and a few forward-thinking businesses to a mainstream practice talked about publicly by Fortune 500 companies. There is still, however, some confusion about what LCA is, what it's good (and not so good) for, and where it might be headed.  Read More

 The Biomimicry Institute’s Educators’ Summit came to San Francisco last week, and it was a good chance to hear some important contributors to bio-inspired design and educators who are striving to teach this relatively new subject. Read More

Information on the energy use, solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions from the production of common plastics has been updated for the U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory Database. Read More

Will triple bottom line practices and measurements truly become commonplace in business? Perhaps there is another way of looking at this trend given the top-down commitments that CEO’s believe are necessary to create this massive shift in corporate behavior. The point of view is called triple top line. Read More

 This report presents a common framework and measurement system for making decisions about packaging and sustainability. Read More

Recently two companies told me they did not see the business case for reporting carbon emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project because the reporting standards are too "flexible." Read More

Often times we all overlook the easiest sustainability “R” of all and that is reduce. Packaging reduction opportunities are usually very simple to identify and almost always even easier to correct. Read More