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.
Tesco Quits Carbon Labeling
Tesco, the U.K.'s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all ...
Hospital Energy Management Tips
Ian Buckle discusses hospital energy management in this Energy Live News interview.
Which ‘Big Three’ Car Maker Wins on Low-Carbon Growth?
Sales of light vehicles to US consumers were up 10% in 2011 compared to the previous year. Revenues are growing, but which US ...
More Companies Say Sustainability Needed to be Competitive
Two-thirds of corporate leaders say management attention to and investment in sustainability rose from 2010 to 2011, according to a global study by MIT ...
Sustainability as Economic Game Changer
"It is one thing to flirt with an idea, and another thing to be married to it." --Freud
In founding a new long-term, ...
Retailers Shrink Stores to Save Energy, Report Finds
Big-box retailers are gravitating towards smaller stores and distribution centers as they seek to reduce energy use, create transportation efficiencies and support communities, according to ...
Jobs in Sustainability – Beyond the Fantasy
How sustainability will be the REAL driver of the new economy
As expected, my column on the mistaken role of government in ...
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 ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Petco, Saatchi, WSP, Elster, Navigant, Sustainable Apparel Coalition
Petco: The retailer has named Jim Thomas vice president of sustainability, safety & environmental health. Thomas was CSR vice president at JC Penney.
Sustainable Apparel ...
Albe Zakes Discusses TerraCycle’s Retailer Recycling Program
Beyondtheline.org interview with Albe Zakes, the 25 year-old Global VP, Media at TerraCycle, Inc., an'upcycling' company, which converts waste materials into ...
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 ...
Renewable Energy Projects On Tribal Lands: A Growing Trend
Tribal communities in the Southwestern United States are making renewable energy development on tribal lands a reality. Areas defined as “Indian country” [see ...
Sustainability Boosts Returns for Private Equity Funds
Part I: Introduction to Environmentally-Driven Value Creation for General Partners
With the recent presidential campaign attention paid to Bain ...
What 2011 Taught Us about the Green Supply Chain (and What It Means for 2012)
As regular readers of Environmental Leader know, there was a blizzard of corporate sustainability news in 2011. There are lots of lessons ...
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, ...
GM’s John Bradburn Talks Waste Reduction
John Bradburn, GM's manager of waste reduction efforts, talks about how GM's landfill-free projects relate to real world situations.
Nissan, ABB to Use EV Batteries for Electrical Storage; Coda Launches Energy Arm
EV makers are moving in on the energy storage market, with Nissan North America and ABB partnering to evaluate the reuse of lithium-ion battery packs, ...
APP Commits to 18% Cut in Energy, Water by 2015
A group of 77 paper businesses including Asia Pulp & Paper have signed an initiative committing themselves to energy-saving and emission-reduction targets set by the ...
IEA Lauds Energy Efficiency PPPs
Public private partnerships on energy efficiency projects are a good way to increase the pace of reduction of the energy intensity of an economy, ...
