State of Green Business Report 2010
GreenBiz.com’s annual State of Green Business Report is the landmark study measuring the environmental impacts of the growing green economy. We document whether and how companies were reducing their environmental impacts, and the mixed results revealed: More companies are doing more things, but moving the needle of environmental progress only slightly, if at all. Here is our summary coverage of this year’s findings, including key trends, analysis, and, of course, access to the report itself.
- For Paul Anastas, assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, innovation trumps incremental improvements.
- Much has been written about the digital divide. Adobe is trying to close the gap between technology and under-served communities with its Youth Voices program, an initiative that helps teens realize...
- How to find, and tackle, the right sustainability problems present in products and services.
- The Sustainability Consortium is entering a new phase, according to Kevin Dooley, senior advisor to the Sustainability Consortium and a professor of supply chain management at Arizona State...
- The statistics on the greening of the Empire State Building are almost as dizzying as the 102-story New York City landmark. And the lessons that can be learned from the efforts by the project...
- What started as a trip across India looking for energy and environmental innovations led to the creation of a energy efficiency platform that provides real-time access to energy use data.
- The latest State of Green Business report, which identifies major green business trends and asks big questions, shows some encouraging, as well as less encouraging, themes.
- Thousands of companies that provide new ways for people to share, rent, borrow and lend everything from cars to tools are popping up, expanding the reach of the "mesh."
- The notion of factories without Dumpsters isn't new, but in recent years a number of companies across industries have put "zero waste" squarely in their sights.
- In the first of our series on the biggest trends in green business practices in 2010, we look at the ways the world's biggest consumer brands -- P&G, Unilever, Kraft and others -- have...
- Construction Specialties discusses its chemicals policy and how it's cleaned up its chemical use in making building products.
- A new version of the first sustainability standard for businesses, tweaked after garnering over 1,500 comments, was released today.
- The Empire State Building, the New York City icon undergoing the largest green retrofit in the U.S., is purchasing wind power credits for 100 percent of its energy use in a deal that parties say...
- China's economic growth, the prevalence of the cappucino and the ubiquitousness of cell phones offer three reasons to cheer, and if history is any guide -- which it is -- all three offer good...
- Let's bring some perspective to GM's use of waste from Gulf oil spill cleanup booms in the Volt and its other recent electric and hybrid vehicle news.
- As COP16 neared its conclusion, Joel Makower talked with Stephen Starbuck, who leads Ernst & Young's Americas Climate Change and Sustainability Services, about the business perspective from...
- Nike's sustainability-focused design tool and patent-sharing program show how companies can use technology and collaboration to combat climate change.
- Nike has released a public version of a design tool it created to help its designers make better-informed decisions in the earliest stage
- Green chemistry seeks to transform the way products are made, reducing or eliminating the unknown, and potentially harmful, substances that are used in manufacturing. At the same time, green...
- It’s an unhappy fact that recycling rates haven’t moved up much since Earth Day. But innovative companies like TerraCycle, RecycleBank and Waste Management are experimenting with...
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