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GreenBiz founder and environmental blogger Joel Makower's top-ten list of 2004 stories reflects the year’s significant events in the arena of business and the environment -- the forces that shaped how mainstream companies think, and act, on key environmental issues. Read More

The logic of locally focused sustainability strategies is clear -- better suited to place, more responsive to conditions, requiring less energy in transport, and more transparent in its consequences. By Gil Friend Read More

Wayne Visser assesses the big picture challenges for companies when it comes to the sustainability agenda and has some suggestions for action. Read More

An interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. By Amanda Griscom Little Read More

The company received the award for its environmental achievements in developing a 103-acre, mixed use site, named Belmar. Read More

Regular columnist Gil Friend drafts a "sustainable business vision statement" -- and asks for your input. Read More

A new report, "Fooling Investors and Fooling Themselves" identifies aggressive accounting and asset management tactics that can lead to environmental accounting fraud. Read More

The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens won’t win a gold medal for its environmental friendliness, according to a new report from Greenpeace. Read More

Baxter International, the U.S. healthcare company, has launched a Web site to provide information and updates on its economic, environmental and social responsibility performance. Read More

The company has joined the United Nations Global Compact, an international network of corporations, U.N. agencies, trade unions, and non-governmental organizations that support a shared set of nine principles on the environment, labor, and human rights. Read More