Guest Column

Top 5 Energy Management System Considerations

The economy has forced most - if not all - U.S. companies to seek ways to reduce non-essential and otherwise variable costs. A new opportunity ...

Carbon Disclosure Demands on the Rise: Is Your Organization Ready?

Home Depot battled negative headlines in May when shareholders voted down a resolution to enforce more rigid and transparent energy efficiency measures. The resolution ...

Supply Chain: Green Or Gold Or Both?

Companies face increased stakeholder pressure and government regulation to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. To address this issue, companies must take action within ...

A Greener View of Corporate ‘Eco’-nomics

Our country has been transformed by numerous periods of historic and evolutionary change - from the Industrial Revolution to the dot-com bubble and the age of ...

‘Green’ Manufacturing Should be Part of Your Strategy

It is important to define, as best as we are able, why it is important to focus on green manufacturing. Green manufacturing is an important part ...

Do Firms Have a Role in Protecting Water as a Basic Human Right?

Before you answer, consider this: No water, no life. And certainly no business. With the exception of air to breathe, no other thing, which if deprived, can ...

Enterprise Carbon Accounting Shows the Way Forward

Many CEOs and environmental managers probably exhaled a sigh of relief last December when Dell was lambasted for its carbon neutral claims, and thought, "Thank goodness ...

The Surprising Solution to the Global Financial Meltdown

During this recent global financial meltdown, the best companies -- from Toyota, UTC, HP and Apple -- have done what is necessary to shield their corporations ...

Is Benefit-Cost Analysis Helpful for Environmental Regulation?

With the locus of action on Federal climate policy moving from the House of Representatives to the Senate, this is a convenient moment to step back ...

Socially Responsible Procurement – Doing the Right Things for Everyone

Procurement managers often struggle with how to do the right thing for society - protect the environment, conserve resources, treat people fairly - as they strive ...

Why Campaign Groups Are Your Best Friends

Pressure groups are your free futurologists. They research your markets gratis and often predict the future better than corporate voodoo professionals. Here's how it starts: Pressure ...

Energy-Efficient Empire State Building Serves as a Model

When the Empire State Building was completed during the depths of the Great Depression, it quickly became an icon of progress and the indomitable spirit of ...

The Sustainability Potential of Cloud Computing: Smarter Design

If you listen to venture capitalists and tech gurus, cloud computing is “the new dot-com," the “biggest shift in computing in two decades” or ...

Could Climate Change be the End of the Third World?

The news that international leaders in Italy were not able to commit to strong, binding climate change agreements probably doesn't surprise anybody. "It is no small task ...

Where Sustainability Lives: A Path to Integration and Innovation

The recession seems to have spurred rather than squelched interest in sustainability. Ongoing economic pressure has companies, especially those serving consumers, searching for new ways to ...

The Water Side of Disaster

As summer begins, so too does disaster season. In the five months from June to November, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) predicts that ...

Data Centers – Where Did All the Water Go?

I'd like you to start thinking about how much water your data center uses a day, a month, and a year. Not just for personnel, but ...

Carbon Management IS Information Management

For most organizations today, sophisticated carbon management is simply not possible. At best, gathering, assessing, and analyzing the necessary information is a considerable challenge. In some ...

The Hope Behind The Holes In The Climate Bill

Friday was a historic day for the United States with the passage of our first comprehensive climate change bill. While I think that the American Clean ...

Energy Costs Rising, Regulations Imminent – Are You Ready?

While organizations remain uncertain about the specific effects and requirements of future greenhouse gas (GHG) legislation and regulation, one outcome is certain: any law that puts ...