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IBM Creates First-Ever Self-Assembling Computer Chip
The innovative process, which mimics how seashells or snowflakes form in nature, will allow the creation of insulating vacuums around next-generation microprocessors. Read More
Legislating Corporate Social Responsibility
A law making its way through the halls of Congress would enforce CSR programs with heavy fines and civil lawsuits. In other words, the time has come for companies to walk the walk, before they make you walk the plank. Read More
Ten Lessons for Corporations Working with Activists
Author: Peter Asmus Rainforest Action Network's recent engagement with Mitsubishi offers some useful tips to help companies make cooperation with activist organizations work for everyone's benefit. Read More
Accor Highlights Its Sustainable Development Commitments
In time for Earth Day later this month, the global hotel company is showcasing its commitment to sustainability. Read More
The Convergence of Science, Technology, and Nature
Brad Allenby writes that business interests have long worked to speed the creation, adoption and dispersal of new technologies into the economy; with the increasing global concern over climate change, they're also encompassing landscapes, biological operations and whole ecological systems, but to what end? Read More
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