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A Consumer First Approach to Sustainability

Walk into Florence's Piazza della Signoria on a summer day and hundreds of birds instantly fly up and surround you. Take a cyber-walk today and ...

September 14, 2009

Section 48C Big Opportunity for Advanced Energy Manufacturers

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA) authorizes the Department of Treasury to award $2.3 billion in tax credits for qualified investments ...

September 10, 2009

Retailers, Check Your Shorts (or be Bamboozled)

Why would the big bad Federal Trade Commission go after a small business rather than a big retailer for violating consumer protection laws prohibiting false green ...

September 6, 2009

Manufacturers Should Consider GHG Emissions on Site-by-Site Basis

Last time we discussed some of the motivators for companies paying attention to green manufacturing - that is, drivers for incorporating green in your business strategy. ...

September 3, 2009

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 ...

August 31, 2009

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 ...

August 26, 2009

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 ...

August 23, 2009

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 ...

August 19, 2009

‘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 ...

August 16, 2009

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 ...

August 12, 2009

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 ...

August 10, 2009

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 ...

August 5, 2009

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 ...

August 2, 2009

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 ...

July 29, 2009

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 ...

July 27, 2009

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 ...

July 22, 2009

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 ...

July 20, 2009

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 ...

July 15, 2009

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 ...

July 12, 2009

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 ...

July 8, 2009

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