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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

Shell has built a hard-won reputation for taking human rights seriously. But activists want to know why the company resisted the U.N.'s proposed "Norms on Business and Human Rights." John Elkington asked the man in charge. Read More

Your environmental management questions answered by two veterans of life in the trenches. Read More

The worldwide interest in sustainability has brought with it a growing and welcome interest in sustainability indicators -- but what to measure is far from obvious. By Gil Friend Read More

After a decade of fits and starts, the green-building movement is finally nearing its tipping point. One sure indicator, from this journalist’s perspective: Greener buildings are no longer news. Read More

In the latest in a series of 2004 shareholder proxy successes, JPMorgan Chase has agreed to take steps to increase its emphasis on environmental risk management. Read More