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.
- Although improving energy efficiency can be as simple as gathering low-hanging fruit, smart companies will take efficiency projects far beyond the usual suspects.
- The business of solar is booming, but will the generous subsidies keeping the industry afloat end up being its Achilles' heel?
- A survey by ITT finds that nearly two-thirds of voters and just over half of businesses would be willing to pay more for their water to ensure its quality and availability.
- To create a new green economy, industrial capitalism must destroy itself. Disruptive, radical, breakthrough innovation is needed, on a mass scale. Government isn't delivering the change we need....
- Small companies have the nimbleness to achieve radical innovations, but they lack scale. On the other end of the spectrum are large companies that have the scale, but they face the uncertainty of...
- The same science that lets brine shrimp stay alive for weeks in the mail is also behind a startup that could change the market for delivering medicine and other perishables.
- With the ambitious goal of making sustainability reporting mainstream for U.S. companies, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced it will open a New York-based office.
- IBM and Schneider Electric are joining forces to provide new smarter buildings solutions that combine robust data collection and powerful analytics, enabling owners to better manage energy use at...
- The arrival of the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt in just a few months could become a watershed moment for the auto industry, as well as for the environmental movement. Unlike the...
- The company unveiled a number of new initiatives this week, as well as upgrades and expansions of its data center and building management solutions.
- The 170-year-old company is in the midst of a rejuvenation, throwing its tools and experience behind a holistic energy management platform aimed at reducing energy use across the enterprise.
- The Foresight Sustainable Business Alliance (FSBA) recently adopted a code of ethics that includes procedures for evaluating and addressing false green marketing claims. A committee will carry out...
- Ernst & Yound cut its carbon footprint in North, Central and South America by 15 percent in fiscal year 2009, the result of its efforts to use less energy and make its supply chain more...
- The 2010 EDF Climate Corps Fellows illustrate the power of energy efficiency with $350 million in reduced operating costs, 400,000 metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions avoided, and...
- A new book describes "the Mesh," a world where products are built to last, shared among both friends and strangers, made more affordable to all, support local communities, and are...
- We've just reached the halfway point in the public comment period for ULE 880 -- Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations -- the company-level sustainability standard my colleagues and I...
- Founded a decade ago, Method Products Inc. has been a game-changer in the consumer products industry. Drummond Lawson, the firm's director of greenskeeping, writes about Method's method for...
- Most mainstream consumers are not willing to sacrifice price, performance and/or quality to buy more sustainable products. But what if we could completely shift consumer’s environmental habits...
- What can we do to make sure that disasters like Deepwater spill don't happen again? Green chemistry, a science that calls for eliminating hazards and waste at the design stage rather than at the...
- The latest report from Five Winds International to be published by GreenBiz.com examines the activities of retailers to determine if they are taking significant steps to increase the number of...
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