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.
Tool to Ease Colleges’ Reporting for Sustainability Rankings
Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education.
The Association ...
Carbon Tracking Declines Among Energy Firms, Survey Finds
A surprising 68 percent of energy and utility industry professionals say they have no system in place to track and report on carbon emissions, up ...
Demand Grows for Standardized Testing in the Ultracapacitor Industry
What are compliance standards and why do they exist?
Across many industries, compliance standards have been created so buyers are assured that the products ...
Warm Winter Hurting Some Businesses, Boosting Others
Apparel makers and retailers, ski resort operators and natural gas producers are feeling the pinch from abnormally warm winter temperatures in the U.S., ...
Environmental Logos and Certifications for Paper, Part II
In yesterday's post I wrote about the rationale behind eco-logos and illustrated the difference between self-generated claims and certifications. Now ...
Ford to Cut Landfill Waste 70%, Water 30% in Europe
Ford's European operations plan to cut landfill waste 70 percent and water use 30 percent under a five-year sustainability strategy.
The waste reduction goal will cut ...
55 Airports Now in Emissions Reduction Program
Some 55 major European airports are now part of a program aimed at cutting carbon emissions, trade organization Airports Council International has announced.
Airports now part ...
Understanding Eco-logos: Certifications vs. Self-Declarations
This article is Part I of a two-part series. The second article, coming tomorrow, will offer more examples of self-declarations, specific ...
Food Price Volatility to Continue through 2012 and Beyond
Rising input costs, demand, and weather risk are expected to keep global food prices strong. Changes in production in water-stressed areas could ...
Office Depot Recycling Earnings up 37%; CO2 Down 11%
In 2010 Office Depot earned $2.43 million from recycling, up 37% from 2009, according to its 2011 Corporate Citizenship Report.
The company, which has ...
Walmart Rockets from 15th to Third in EPA Green Power Rankings
Walmart has shot to third place on the EPA's rankings of the country's top green power purchasers, from 15th place just last ...
UN Documents Propose Mandatory Sustainability Reporting
Two influential documents - the Rio+20 negotiating text and the recommendations of the U.N. secretary general's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability - both propose ...
Top Trends in Data Center Energy Management
The way large enterprises, government agencies and managed service providers analyze and utilize energy in their data centers will undergo some fairly ...
Coke Improves Water Efficiency for 8th Straight Year
In 2010, Coca-Cola improved its water use efficiency for the eighth consecutive year, with a ratio of 2.26 liters of water per liter of ...
Sodexo Client Sustainability Tool Starting at 1,000 Sites this Year
Sodexo plans to roll out a sustainability dashboard to 1,000 client sites by October, to help clients establish baselines, prioritize initiatives, and track improvement.
The $16 ...
Trusting Science to Help Create Environmental Policy
Public policy should be based on solid scientific research and it is often presumed that when policy decisions are made, decision-makers have utilized ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Rainforest Alliance, LEED Certifications, WEEE
Hershey's says that later this year, U.S. consumers will be able to purchase Hershey's Bliss products with 100 percent cocoa from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms. The ...
Why Solar Is Down, but Not Nearly Out
In CNBC's recent special report on "Green Winners and Losers," I had the good fortune to write about three winners: recycling, ...
IHS Makes Sustainability a ‘Measure of Success’
IHS says it has established a corporate sustainability goal that will join the company's four other long-standing goals by which it focuses its efforts and ...
Adapting to the Consequences of Climate Change
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress ...
