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.
McDonald’s Unveils Sustainable Practices
Fast food chain McDonald's has employed techniques including $500 staff incentives, 30 percent wind power requirements and lightweight tractor-trailers to help green up its operations, ...
Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says
Salesforce, the world's largest vendor of enterprise cloud computing, gets the worst ratings in a Greenpeace report that claims cloud computing companies are perpetuating the ...
Mitsubishi Electric Targets 27% Cut in Carbon Emissions from Product Use
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is aiming to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the use of 84 products by an average of 27 percent, compared to levels ...
DHL Uses Rail to Cut Carbon Emissions
DHL Global Forwarding will rely more heavily on rail in Germany to transport containers to sea freight terminals in an effort to cut its carbon ...
Pac-12 Wins EPA College Green Power Challenge
The Pac-12 college athletic conference has claimed top spot among the 30 conferences in the EPA's College and University Green Power Challenge, which rewards the ...
Adopting CSR Standards ‘Helps Companies Reduce Risk of Failure’
Companies aren't required by law to adhere to international corporate social responsibility standards. But according to Avril Cole, an attorney with Norton Rose ...
100 Best Corporate Citizens Revealed
Bristol-Myers Squibb is ranked no. 1 on the list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2012 from CR Magazine, followed by IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Johnson ...
Accor Hotels Target 10% Cuts in CO2, Energy Use
Hotel operator Accor has launched a set of sustainability targets for 2015 across the group's 4,400 hotels owned and leased hotels worldwide.
The announcement follows a ...
Consumer Electronics Firms Upped Recycling by 53% in 2011
Members of the consumer electronics industry's eCycling Leadership Initiative - including Apple, Best Buy, Dell and HP - increased the amount of goods they recycled ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: LEED Comments, ISO 50001, IEC 61646, ISO 14001
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
The 4th public comment period for LEED 2012, ...
Nestle Sustainability Report: Direct GHGs Fell 7.7 Percent, Per Production, in 2011
Nestle's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.8 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2011, while its production volume increased by 3.4 percent, according to the company's 2011 corporate sustainability report.
Per metric ton of product, Nestlé ...
ConAgra Awards Cut 43,600 Metric Tons of Carbon
This year's entries to ConAgra Foods' internal Sustainable Development Awards collectively reduced carbon emissions by more than 43,600 metric tons.
Projects entered also eliminated 61,000 tons ...
Unintended Environmental Consequences of the Demise of Redevelopment in California
California has a rich history of seizing opportunities that, at first glance, seem perilous. Following a significant industrial and manufacturing era in ...
Difficulties of Going Green in the Data Center
A concept little discussed in the business world as recently as a few years ago, green IT has entered the corporate mainstream ...
Walmart Sustainability Report: Supplier Scorecards to Launch in 100 Categories this Year
Walmart expects to develop supplier scorecards in up to 100 major product categories by the end of this year, in the latest stage of ...
Conn. Facilities to Tap EnerNOC at 100 Facilities
The State of Connecticut has selected EnerNOC's EfficiencySmart energy-efficiency system to help it reduce energy use and costs at up to 100 state facilities through ...
Leveraging Manufacturing, Part I
I recently finished a long series of articles on the power of the digital age in the form of ...
HP, Staples Offer Free E-Recycling
Hewlett-Packard and office products retailer Staples have teamed up to offer free electronics recycling for all brands of office technology at Staples stores nationwide.
Small businesses ...
How Efficient Is Your Server Estate?
Probably the most fundamental pieces of equipment in your IT asset arsenal are servers. But they are also probably the most disregarded ...
Past, Present and Future of LEED for Existing Building Operations and Maintenance
As the foundation of the US Green Building Council's certification, LEED for New Construction certification (LEED NC) was designed as a one-time effort ...
