BOSTON, Mass. -- A new poll suggests that today's college students are hoping for a job after school with an eco-friendly company, rather than a conventional one.

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.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A study by the Worldwatch Institute shows how renewable energy jobs have expanded and are projected to grow throughout the world.

SOMERS, N.Y. -- IBM wants to help companies boost their CSR cred with a consulting service aimed at driving policy effectiveness, employee engagement and communication.

The corporate rush to environmental stewardship has pushed related workplace safety and health issues to the sidelines. Yet a recent report critical of Toyota highlights the danger of viewing environmental concerns without considering the human toll.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Acre Resources, a recruitment firm focused on jobs related to the environment and sustainability, finds the number of green jobs and their average salaries are increasing in the U.K.

When corporate sustainability initiatives spring up organically from employees' own motivation, the results can include more than just shrinking a company's footprint. Three companies highlight the different stages of how a green team evolves.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The number of people working in the environmental sector is expected to top 1 million within the next 20 years -- more than double today's figure of 400,000.

Experts of all stripes are predicting that green innovations are the last best hope for us to solve our environmental crises. In order to make the innovations a reality, we will have to train our business leaders to think sustainably and act strategically, and business schools are rising to this challenge.

Oklahoma is not San Francisco. But when an Oklahoma state representative named Sally Kern made anti-gay comments, she ran into trouble not just with gay-rights groups, but with business leaders as well. This shows, as I've argued before, that corporate America is ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to equal rights for all.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- In another high-profile partnership announced recently, Toyota gave the Audubon Society its largest grant ever -- $20 million -- to fund conservation projects, train environmental leaders and boost volunteerism, the company said Wednesday.

Corporate green efforts can deliver benefits to the top and bottom lines. These results are within reach when you take a disciplined, pragmatic and committed approach to the development and implementation of a smart green strategy.

The promise of the green economy and the clean-tech revolution is that they will bring a new wave of job opportunities - productive and respectable jobs at every part of the economic spectrum, from line workers to senior managers. Nonprofit groups like the Apollo Alliance have made this part of their raison d'etre. A steady drumbeat of studies since the late 1990s has told us that burgeoning markets for solar, wind, clean transportation, and other technologies would represent the next big wave of job creation. Cities and states have been positioning to become clean-tech hubs, eyeing the workforce development potential. Organizations representing low-income populations have been viewing the green economy as an entry point for those near the bottom of the economic ladder.

TEST, Hawaii -- When a company, large or small, decides to assess and improve its environmental performance, having employees on board to support and extend the project can make the difference between success and failure.

UNITED KINGDOM, -- Envirowise's One Bin Day campaign aimed to make office workers see and think about what their office throws away.