Sustainable Strategy & Leadership
Sustainable strategy and leadership highlights strategies used by corporations and their leaders to increase sustainability, become more energy efficient and to reduce pollution and waste. Articles here focus on many businesses that are setting corporate social responsibility policies and goals, as well as their results.
Kmart, Supervalu, 6 Other Supermarkets Drop APP Toilet Paper over Forest Concerns
Kmart, Kroger, BI-LO, Harris Teeter, Supervalu, Weis Markets, Brookshire Grocery Company and Delhaize Group (owner of Food Lion) have all decided to stop carrying ...
Carbon Positive Launches Energy Management for Ports
Carbon Positive has launched what it calls the first program specifically to help ports adopt long-term strategies for energy and carbon management.
The maritime ...
Delivering Sustainable Supply Chains
Regulation, along with a drive to improve efficiency and enhance corporate reputation, has encouraged the majority of large organizations to look ...
Sustainability as Economic Game Changer, Part II
For CEOs, the passport of sustainability delivers clear environmental, social and economic governance. As such, the sustainability passport assists in the protection ...
Are Chief Sustainability Officers on their Way Out?
Some businesses are rejecting the chief sustainability officer model, in the fear that such a position prevents sustainability getting embedded throughout the company’s operations, according ...
Google Jumps to 1st Place in Cool IT Climate Rankings
Google has secured the top spot in Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard, with 53 points, up from 47 points and fourth place in the rankings' last edition.
The search giant is followed by Cisco – ...
Oasis Calls on Customers to Audit Its Paper Sustainability
Oasis Brands has invited leading U.S. grocery chains to audit its Indonesia-sourced tissue products, including materials sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper.
In a letter ...
Eco-mode UPS for Data Centers
Microprocessor based loads for computer hardware need high fidelity voltage for continuous fault-free operation. For more than 20 years that power quality ...
Tools of the Manufacturing Trade, Part V
Software to the rescue...
In part 4 of this series, I introduced the idea of the "design to production ...
Win Recognition for Your College’s Environmental Program
Enviance and Environmental Leader are hosting a March Madness tournament to determine the university with the best undergraduate programs in environmental studies and sustainability....
Could Efficiency Help Iron out the Bumps in Ore Prices?
Many manufacturers now see raw materials as their biggest risk. Carmakers are among industries caught between volatile commodity prices and cash-strapped customers. Companies ...
Will Customers Pay More for ‘Green?’
Will people pay to go green? That's a key question - maybe the question - for any company committed to sustainability. At Walmart, ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, WaterSense, CarbonNeutral
NSF International now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action's (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program. The Greenscreen scores chemicals from one through ...
O2 Sustainability Goals: 100% Renewables, an End to Bundled Chargers
O2 will use 100 percent renewable energy and will no longer offer chargers free with mobile phone purchases, as part of a three-year sustainability ...
Carbon Disclosure Raises Stock Prices, Study Finds
Companies that voluntarily issue press releases disclosing their carbon emission information see their stock prices rise significantly in the following days, according to a ...
Organizational Change: The Swiss Army Knife of Sustainability
On December 8, 2011, TSSS attendees heard from an industry veteran who has been in the field of corporate sustainability for ...
Why Third-Party Certifications Have Gained Traction
Arguably Shakespeare's most recognizable character, Juliet Capulet, captures the play's central theme and struggle in one simple line after asking her ...
Green Bay Packaging Discusses Sustainability Efforts
In the fall of 2011, RMI in partnership with Baltimore County's Office of Sustainability, under a U.S. Department of Energy Grant, ...
Oracle VP Urges Event Organizers to Take Action
The event industry is the second-biggest generator of waste in the U.S. and event organizers must make a start, however small, to address their ...
Zero-Waste Phenomenon Grows, as Kraft Hits Milestone
Kraft has 36 facilities in 13 countries that send zero waste to landfills, the company has announced, the latest in a string of “zero waste” ...
