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.
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 ...
Financing Wind Ambitions: Offshore Wind Parks
Wind power is currently a highly relevant energy source, especially offshore wind. Within five years, offshore wind power plants are expected to account ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED, Minnesota Farming Conservation, Indian Telecom Targets, RoHS 2
JPMorgan Chase has earned LEED Platinum for the renovation of the 50-year-old building that houses its global headquarters in Manhattan, and the company says that ...
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 ...
Southwest Airlines Interior to Cut 635lb Per Plane
Southwest Airlines has unveiled a redesigned cabin that it says reduces aircraft weight while cutting waste.
The cabin's seats achieve weight savings of nearly six ...
The Business of Water
The world is dealing with a severe water crisis. Population growth and economic development continue to push water resources beyond natural limits, and ...
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 ...
US Replaces China as Top Clean Energy Investor
The United States has regained its place as the world's number one investor in clean energy, reclaiming the top spot from China, according to Bloomberg ...
Four Sustainability Trends to Watch in 2012
The worldwide movement toward sustainability has made significant progress over the past half-dozen years as companies and cities have pursued strategies that ...
CertainTeed Cuts Energy, Water Use, Landfill Waste
Building products manufacturer CertainTeed has reduced energy consumption by 15 percent and water usage by 24 percent over the past four years.
The Valley Forge, Penn., ...
Maintenance is Key to Lowering Energy Costs
As green thinking and sustainability come to the forefront of business practices, well-run maintenance department with a focus on energy efficiency are becoming ...
Where to Start with Reducing Indirect Carbon Emissions?
By definition, indirect carbon emissions are outside of a company's direct control, so reducing them can be challenging. According to ...
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, ...
