What's inside the stuff we buy? When it comes to food, it's hard to know. As for other things including the household products like cleaners and air fresheners, the ingredients are usually a mystery. But SC Johnson Co. is going to change all that in a big way.

Of the 35,000 dry cleaners in the United States, only 35 use toxin-free carbon dioxide cleaning methods. A Seattle startup called Blue Sky Cleaners is aiming to grow that number.

Exxon Valdez has finally begun to give money to lawsuit claimants 20 years after its 11 million gallon oil spill in the Prince William Sound.

Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender has said that hell would freeze over before his company would ever do business with Wal-Mart. In this post, he concedes that he was wrong.

STURTEVANT, Wis. -- The commercial cleaning products giant says its ProSpeed floor-finishing tool has helped customers save an estimated 71,400 gallons of water since its launch in the North American market in June.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protecting the health of school-age children and other sensitive and vulnerable populations is a key focus of latest version of the Green Seal Environmental Standard for Industrial and Institutional Cleaners, the organization said releasing its updated guidelines.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Dial Corp. unveiled a program to promote green cleaning products geared toward healthcare facility managers. The products will meet or exceed various green cleaning criteria, such as formulas that are biodegradable, hypoallergenic or non-irritating.

Is your office cluttered with books, papers and teetering piles of business cards? Does your house sometimes feel more like a storage facility than a home? If so, I wish you could have joined me the other day for The Beauty of Being Organized, an event sponsored by Herman Miller, the furniture company, which featured a talk by a funny and insightful “professional organizer” named Peter Walsh.

CHICAGO, Ill. -- The National Restaurant Association unveiled the "Conserve: Solutions for Sustainability" initiative at its annual trade show Monday, the same day PepsiCo Foodservice entered a partnership with the Green Restaurant Association (GRA) to help customers become more sustainable. A Chicago culinary school also said Monday it would incorporate sustainability education into its curriculum.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Ecolab will reportedly introduce a new environmental initiative to certify carwash operators and help them market their services to green-minded consumers.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Henkel, a Germany-based corporation that makes products such as Soft Scrub and Dial soaps, made a three-year commitment to work with the university's Global Institute of Sustainability to measure product environmental impacts from cradle to grave.

RACINE -- The Greenlist logo, which will adorn product labels beginning this month, is based on a patented process that rates 95 percent of the raw materials used in SC Johnson's products. Greenlist products contain fewer volatile organic compounds.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Clorox Company has formed a partnership with the Sierra Club as part of the company's launch of Green Works, a new line of natural cleaning products made from plant-based ingredients.