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Vehicle Makers Reduce 'New Car Smell' Chemicals
Some car manufacturers have made gains in reducing chemicals that can be emitted as fumes.
Report Covers the Good and Bad in Agriculture Trends
An overview of agricultural concerns warns about what issues need to be focused on today and in the future.
Climate Change Fight Requires 'New Deal' Effort
A U.K. group is calling for a climate change strategy similar in scale to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, including a massive investment in renewables and major shake-up of taxation and financial systems.
PHEVs in the Spotlight
The race to create the infrastructure for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is on -- the city of San Francisco, state of Tennessee and a slew of automakers and utilities announced separate plans to lay the groundwork for the mass introduction of PHEVs beginning in 2010.
Small Companies Taking More Steps Toward Green IT Tools
A recent survey by IDC finds that even the smallest businesses are starting to take green initiatives to heart, especially when it comes to adopting IT applications that will make it easier to make their supply chains greener.
More S&P 100 Companies Reporting CSR Progress: Study
Eighty-six percent of companies on the Standard and Poors 100 Index have corporate sustainability websites, compared to 58 percent in 2005. Roughly half produced a sustainability report last year, 26 percent higher than the 39 companies that issued one two years before.
Green Purchasing Makes Slight Gains
TerraChoice's survey of procurement professionals found that green purchasing policies have grown and discovered which issues have increased in importance.
Pew Center and Toyota Team Up to Research Energy Efficiency Best Practices
With research by the Pew Center and $1.4 million in funding from Toyota, the project seeks to identify successful energy efficiency strategies among top corporations and share the information in a major public report.
The New Green Focus for Future MBAs
Current and prospective business-school students are clamoring for CSR programs in their curricula; Padma Naggapan takes a look a how three traditional MBA programs are responding to this demand in different ways.
Switchover to Fuel Cell Vehicles Will Cut Emissions, Cost Billions
A nationwide transition to fuel cell powered vehicles would eventually severely curb carbon dioxide emissions, but will take time and money.
JohnsonDiversey Reformulates Floor Care Line
The maker of Signature, Johnson Wax Professional and Butcher's said its reformulation of floor finishes has decreased the volatile organic compound (VOC) content of a leading product line, achieving a result more than two years earlier than required by the California Air Resources Board.
Food Firms Pledge to Cut Mileage
Companies behind some of the biggest brands on U.K. supermarket shelves have pledged to slash the environmental impact of transporting their goods.
Greenwashing (cont.) and the Need to Loosen Up
Jeffrey Hollender, the founder, CEO at Seventh Generation, published a counterpoint to my recent post, How Bad Is Greenwashing, Really?
National Association of Counties Supports Extended Producer Responsibility
The National Association of Counties has declared its support of Extended Producer Responsibility to put companies, not governments, in charge of recycling products.
Ethical Sourcing Awareness Trickling Down Global Supply Chain: Report
Ethical Sourcing Report 2008 found CSR performance has become a bargaining chip for attracting business, and companies are increasingly training buyers on sustainable procurement.
