Sustainability
Sustainability includes sustainable building, design and operations. Sustainability is the collection of policies and strategies employed by companies to minimize their environmental impact on future generations. Ecological concerns, such as the environmental impact of pollutants, are balanced with socio-economic concerns such as minimizing the consumption of limited natural resources to maintain their availability for the future.
Sustainability in Real Estate – The Road Ahead in 2012
This past year has been marked by corporate and commercial real estate leaders who have increasingly embraced the principles of sustainability to ...
Novo Nordisk Leads Corporate Knights Sustainability Rankings
Novo Nordisk has topped Corporate Knights magazine's annual Global 100 rankings of leaders in sustainability.
The Danish pharmaceuticals company was followed by Brazil’s Natura ...
Lawyers Warn of Fuel Cell ‘Black Boxes’
From the c-suite perspective, a $250,000 fuel cell is essentially a "black box" posing significant operational risk, two lawyers have warned in the latest issue ...
Honda NA Hits Another CO2 Goal, a Year Late
Last year Honda met its 2010 goal of a 20 percent cut to CO2 from power equipment production, with a 27.2 percent drop from ...
Crown Holdings Cuts Direct GHGs 8%
Crown Holdings, a leading supplier of cans and other metal packaging products to consumer marketing companies, cuts its direct greenhouse gas emissions by ...
Green Banking Part IV: Cutting Your Footprint and Your Costs
In Part III of our green banking series, we examined how from coal to real estate to small business lending, ...
Clorox Puts Ingredient Lists in the Palm of Consumers’ Hands
Clorox has launched a smartphone application to help consumers look up the ingredients of its household and commercial products.
The Clorox Ingredients Inside ...
D.C. Tops LEED Certification List for Second Year
Colorado and Illinois have pushed out New Mexico and Nevada in the U.S. Green Building Council's annual ranking of states by certified LEED space ...
Kaiser Permanente Switches to PVC- and DEHP-Free IV Bags
Kaiser Permanente announced today that it is converting its IV medical equipment to alternatives free of PVC and DEHP, two industrial chemicals that the ...
GE Renames Converteam Efficiency Business
GE has rebranded Converteam, the French process control and automation business it acquired last September, renaming it Power Conversion.
GE said the Power Conversion business ...
A Three-Part Approach to Corporate Sustainability
Sustainable development is a vast and all-encompassing idea, and corporate sustainability is nearly so. No corporate sustainability leader can hope to make their ...
Val Smith: Sustainability at Citi
Val Smith, director of sustainability at Citi, discusses innovation and sustainability during a presentation at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
CDP to Intensity Environmental Accounting Work After $1.5m Prize Win
The Carbon Disclosure Project will expand its work to set accounting standards for environmental disclosure, after winning the $1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize in ...
EPA’s Design for Environment (DfE) vs. ISO 14006:2011 for Eco-design
What's the difference?
How do DfE and the eco-design goal of ISO 14006:2011 compare? Someone asked me that and I realized some research ...
Highlights from Investor Summit on Climate Risk & Energy Solutions
On January 12, 2012, nearly 500 of the world's investors and financial players gathered at the United Nations to showcase their ...
IBM, GM, Coke Form Environmental Innovation Council
IBM and the World Environment Center have announced the formation of the Innovations in Environmental Sustainability Council, whose charter members will include Boeing, Coca-Cola ...
Group Pressure Could Form Green Consumers
Green marketing should focus on how consumers respond to social pressure from those around them, rather than trying to force individual consumers to change ...
BSkyB Studio to Get 40% of Energy from Biomass CHP
BSkyB, the U.K. satellite and telecoms company, will generate up to 40 percent of the energy for its new main studio campus through a ...
Apple Releases Supplier List, as NGOs Praise Chinese Transparency Progress
The National Resources Defense Council and Beijing-based NGO the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs have said China is making steady progress on ...
GM Sets Energy, Carbon, Water Goals in First Report as New Firm
The General Motors Company has committed to reduce its facilities' energy intensity and carbon intensity by 20 percent, and water intensity by 15 percent, ...
