What Oat Hulls Can Teach Us About Tapping Employees' Innovation
John Hellweg, recently retired from General Mills, shares the effort it took to complete a nearly 25-year-long process to turn a waste stream into a fuel source.... [Read More]
 
The Benefits of Building Efficiency Go Far Beyond Energy Costs
Today, improving buildings' energy efficiency is a rapidly growing industry blossoming with new business ideas and models. Here are some ways business can profit.... [Read More]
 
Why Designing Goods for the Global Market Can Give a Green Boost
The increasing globalization of culture, as well as of business, brings opportunities for companies to streamline production while also expanding their market reach.... [Read More]
 
Koomey: Why Entrepreneurs Offer the Best Hope as Climate Heroes
Jonathan Koomey, author of a new book on how the accelerating pace of innovation offers a world of opportunities for entrepreneurs to seize the climate moment for the greater good.... [Read More]
 
Building Business Value in a Changing World
KPMG explains how 'megaforces' like climate change, urbanization and food security are rapidly increasing the costs of doing business.... [Read More]
 
3 Disruptive Lessons Automakers Should Learn for Greater Efficiency
Recent advances in materials design -- partly inspired by the evolution of the human body -- make possible passenger vehicles that get 240 miles per gallon.  Here are three steps that the industr... [Read More]
 
Puma's Eco-Impacts Report Kicks the Ball Forward on Transparency
The apparel company has continued its sustainability leadership with the publication of a detailed look at the environmental impacts of its supply chain, which totaled US$191 million in 2010.... [Read More]
 
Puma's 2010 Environmental Profit & Loss Report
The apparel company's groundbreaking report offers a roadmap on assessing the eco-impacts of any company's supply chain.... [Read More]
 
3 Ways to Get Ahead of Climate Change, Without Ditching Oil (Yet)
Despite the painfully slow progress on a global transition to clean energy, there are three relatively simple ideas that, if widely implemented, could offset a big chunk of fossil fuel emissions and b... [Read More]
 
Calif. Green Jobs Handled Recession Better than Conventional Jobs
Throughout 2009, California's green economy lost fewer than half as many jobs as the overall state economy, according to the latest report from Next 10.... [Read More]
 
Why Sinking Cleantech Investment Data Aren't the End of the World
The latest figures from Ernst & Young show a 4.5 percent dip in investments in clean technologies last year. Given how bad the Year of Solyndra was for all things green, there's reason for opt... [Read More]