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Best Buy Launches Consumer Electronics Recycling Grants
The electronics retail superstore will offer grants to municipal and nonprofit organizations to help them develop new ways for consumers to recycle electronics. Read More
Lean Manufacturing, the Environment and the Bottom Line
Harnessing the productivity of lean manufacturing -- which emphasizes using the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency practices -- can also dramatically reduce waste and pollution. Here are some benefits of dealing with the '8th Deadly Waste.' Read More
The Business Case for a Chief Sustainability Officer
As the world grapples with environmental crises, businesses need holistic leadership to fundamentally reinvent how we approach sustainability. Rick Walker makes the case for the Chief Sustainability Officer. Read More
A Vocabulary for Sustainable Business
Trying to convey complex subjects -- like sustainability or global warming -- are critically important, but immensely difficult using the vocabulary we've developed. Nathan Shedroff, a graduate of the Presidio School of Management's Sustainable MBA program, offers some ideas to overcome these obstacles. Read More
The Business of Saving Water
Benjamin H. Grumbles writes that EPA's WaterSense program helps drive the water-efficiency market by identifying products that meet the program's high water-efficiency and performance criteria. Read More
Shareholders Call Out Ten Worst Climate-Changing Companies
A new list cites the companies in energy, finance, insurance and retail that have done the least to address the risks posed by climate change. Read More
Fundamentals of Sustainable Business in the 21st Century
Paul Sheldon explains that as companies large and small embrace the concepts of sustainability, they are finding that a few basic principles of caring for employees, customers and the planet just makes good business sense. Read More
Goldman Sachs Expects Big Returns from Going Green
The investment giant announced an ambitious series of environmental goals, and found them directly in line with its primary goal of making money, Christopher Wright reports for the Ecosystem Marketplace. Read More
3C Initiative Unites Big Companies to Combat Climate Change
A group of large companies meeting here last week has formed a new group aimed at developing an effective global climate protection policy for the period following the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol in 2013. Read More
Independence from the Corporate Global Economy
The old story says we have to depend on big corporations, writes Ethan Miller. The new story tells us we can earn a livelihood, gain freedom, and build community through cooperation. Read More