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In recent years, green leadership companies now view environmental issues not merely as a cost, but as a source of business value. In some companies, environmental challenges and constraints have become a source of innovation -- a catalyst for new products and services, and even new business models, that address environmental concerns while creating new business opportunities. This section explores how business can benefit and inspire innovations.
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Ellen Weinreb identifies companies that have found over $100 million in savings stemming from employee’s suggestions. She highlights sustainability innovations as well as the systems that...
The San Francisco-based startup is using social media to connect drivers with commuters and road trippers needing rides – saving money, helping the environment and sometimes helping...
With the results of the first Internet revolution -- one that Case, the co-founder of AOL, also pioneered -- firmly entrenched, Case talks about what his venture capital fund, Revolution, sees as......
Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, says collective intelligence -- and mounds of data -- can help us tackle the world's sustainability challenges....
The founder of Code for America shows how simple new apps serve as a shot across the bow of dysfunctional government institutions....
During the kickoff of the VERGE conference, leaders from the public and private sector discussed how cities are the place where otherwise-invisible technologies become visible, with great impacts......
At Social Media Week in New York City, two recently sprouted startups joined two innovative established companies to talk about how to harness the power of gaming for the greater good.
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.
Today, improving buildings' energy efficiency is a rapidly growing industry blossoming with new business ideas and models. Here are some ways business can profit....
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.
KPMG explains how megaforces like climate change, urbanization and food security are rapidly increasing the costs of doing business.
A project aimed at making customers' utility data more easily accessible and understandable has already been embraced by a few leading utilities, and developers like Tendril and Opower are......
The case of a 100 percent post-consumer recycled content toilet paper illustrates why a shift toward sustainability will have to come from the top down, not the bottom up....
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......
The apparel company's groundbreaking report offers a roadmap on assessing the eco-impacts of any company's supply chain.
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.
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...
Innovations -- even ones leading to the most sustainable products of their fields, like Cascades' new Moka recycled TP -- sometimes fail not because of any inherent fault of their own, but...
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....
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...
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