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August Saw Record Jump in U.S. Clean Diesel, Hybrid Car Sales
While August was a robust month for passenger vehicle sales in the U.S. — registering a 17 percent increase compared to August 2012 — there were remarkable jumps in sales of clean diesel and hybrid...
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Project Recover Exploring Viability, Options for Eliminating Paint Waste
Global design and innovation firm Seymourpowell today announced a collaboration with leading global paint company AkzoNobel Decorative Paints to explore and improve the process of recycling used paint...
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SBIO Winner Fenugreen Poised to Change the World - Could Your Startup Do the...
It’s been only a few months since Fenugreen won the Innovation Open at the Sustainable Brands ’13 conference, but you wouldn’t know it based on their momentum and accomplishments since. Since winning...
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California Startup Creates Self-Filtering Water Bottle
A Southern California-based start-up called Evo Eau says it has created a reusable water bottle that filters up to 99 percent of contaminants from municipally supplied tap water.The bottle is...
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NASCAR Green Recognizes Achievements of Seven Motorsports Facilities
Seven motorsports facilities operated by the International Speedway Corporation (ISC) received the NASCAR Green track operator award during the recent 2013 NASCAR Green Summit.The award recognizes...
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Nestlé, Volkswagen, SAP, Air France Named Industry Leaders in 2013 Dow Jones...
S&P Dow Jones Indices, one of the world’s largest providers of financial market indices, and RobecoSAM, an investment specialist focused on sustainability investing, today announced the results of...
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Ecosystem Services & Corporate Sustainability: Integrating the Value of...
Ecosystem services— or the flows of natural capital from the environment into human economies and societies – have traditionally been thought of and treated as ‘free,’ resulting in their mismanagement...
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10% of World's Largest Companies Produce 73% of GHG
Fifty of the world’s 500 largest companies are responsible for nearly three quarters of the group’s 3.6 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the CDP Global 500 Climate...
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Sustainable Restaurant Association Inaugurates Accreditation Program for Food...
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched its first sustainability accreditation for food destinations, developed with retail landlord Hammerson.The first initiative of its kind, SRA...
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Flint and Tinder on a Mission to Revive the American Cut-and-Sew Industry
It seems that starting a successful business can happen at any time and to anyone. All it took for Jake Bronstein was a look at where all his underwear was manufactured. Once he realized that 99% of...
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Walmart Shares Its Sustainability Success Stories at Milestone Meeting
Yesterday, Walmart broadcast its Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting through its online portal The Green Room. The meeting celebrated the global retailer’s progress since the launch of its...
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Do One Thing: Lessons in Driving Employee Engagement
At Saatchi & Saatchi S we believe that employees are not only the heart and soul of a company, they are a company’s greatest asset in propelling and achieving its sustainability vision. At its most...
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Move Over Eco-Efficiency, Here Comes Eco-Immunity - Part One
For most of what passes for mainstream business today, it is still lamentably the case that profits trump sustainability, and thereby put natural resources and human well-being at risk. The only...
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10 Finalists in Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Challenge Show What’s...
Products from ten companies have been selected as finalists for the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Product Innovation Challenge, sponsored by the Schmidt Family Foundation and the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Three...
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General Mills Joins Dow Jones Sustainability Index
General Mills has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI) by S&P Dow Jones Indices and investment specialist RobecoSAM after demonstrating best-in-class performance...
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GM Facility Among 5% of Data Centers to Earn LEED Gold Certification
The General Motors Enterprise Data Center in Warren, Michigan recently received Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program,...
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Chipotle Launches Assault on Big Food with Short Film, and There's More to Come
Chipotle keeps sticking its neck out for "sustainable," locally produced food — now with an animated short-film attack on "Big Food" and with the promise of more expansive and aggressive efforts to...
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The Evolution of Social Impact Metrics: Where Math and Computer Science Meet...
The usefulness of advanced data analytics — Big Data, small data and everything in between — is converging with the needs of corporate sustainability, and this is creating new opportunities for...
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AdAge Releasing New Report on Navigating FTC Green Guides
Advertising Age is releasing a report today entitled “How to Make Credible Green Marketing Claims: What Marketers Need to Know about the Updated FTC Green Guides.” Co-authored by Jacquelyn Ottman of J....
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The Emerging, Not-for-Profit Economy
Across numerous countries, the economic contribution of the not-for-profit sector has been on the rise since the late 1990s. In Canada, for example, not-for-profit institutions now contribute 8% of the...
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