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What is the media's 'brainprint' for sustainability?
By Jennifer Inez Ward, May 16, 2012
The Global Reporting Initiative has recently come out with comprehensive guidelines on sustainability in the media industry, but will major media companies adopt key measures?
Why curbing agriculture's climate impacts is a growing challenge
By Stephen Russell, May 16, 2012
So much uncertainty surrounding how to report agricultural emissions hinders measurement and reduction efforts in the sector, spurring the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to develop industrywide best......
Businesses struggle to win sustainability street cred
By Ory Zik, May 11, 2012
While corporations pour millions of dollars into sustainability policies and initiatives, consumers remain skeptical.
Sustainability strategy begins with 20/20 Vision
By Barbara O. Brown, May 07, 2012
Business strategy that has sustainability at its core can capture hearts and minds while also increasing responsible growth. Here's how to get started.
How to Capture Meaningful Climate Data to Boost Building Performance
By Don McLean, March 01, 2012
An understanding of climate is essential to the successful design of comfortable buildings. But gaining that understanding is tough. Here's a drill-down look at two ways to translate climate......
Is There a Leaner Way to Footprint?
By Kumar Venkat, February 21, 2012
Measuring and communicating the carbon footprint of consumer goods is a resource-intensive effort that may be doomed to fail. But lean manufacturing process, already widely adopted and respected,...

How your firm can adjust as energy gets more & less carbon-intensive
By Ryan Schuchard, BSR, May 17, 2012
For companies thinking about climate change and energy, what are the implications of two countervailing trends, the rise of energy with lower carbon content, and the concurrent rise of high-carbon energy?...

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Why Water is the Sharp End of the Climate Change Stick
By Conor Riffle, November 03, 2011
We are increasingly attuned to the links between climate change and water. Too much and a city floods; too little and a city dries up.
US Firms Barely Rank in Global Climate Change Disclosure Lists
By Tilde Herrera, November 01, 2011
Just 8 percent of North American companies fully disclose carbon emissions data, compared to more than 53 percent of European firms, according to the latest carbon rankings from the Environmental......
The Clear Links Report on IT Supply Chain Transparency
By Matthew Wheeland, October 28, 2011
How do the top tech companies manage their supply chains for risk and sustainability?...
SF's Transamerica Pyramid Achieves Green Building Milestone
By Leslie Guevarra, October 27, 2011
San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid, a unique silhouette on the city skyline for almost 40 years, celebrates a green building milestone....
What's Next for PUMA's Groundbreaking Sustainability Plans?
By Adam Aston, October 27, 2011
After bringing a nearly defunct brand to the top tier of global sports fashion -- and the leading edge of corporate sustainability -- the former CEO of PUMA (and now Chief Sustainability Officer......
North America To Lead Carbon Management Market by 2013
By Derek Top, October 21, 2011
In less than two years, the North American market for software to monitor and report greenhouse gas emissions will be $1.1 billion, or 41 percent of the world's total market....
Sprint Gets Scope 3 Emissions in Sight with New Climate Commitment
By Tilde Herrera, October 12, 2011
The telecom company plans to reduce its entire carbon footprint by 20 percent by 2017 as part of its participation in the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Climate Savers program, and will include a......
Clorox Becomes Latest Firm to Adopt Integrated Sustainability Reporting
By Tilde Herrera, October 11, 2011
The shift to integrated reporting -- which companies including Southwest Airlines, Philips, United Technologies and Novo Nordisk have also undertaken -- is one that investors are beginning......
Infographic: Inside Latin America's First LCA of a New Building
By Tilde Herrera, October 06, 2011
Conservación & Desarrollo (C&D), a Chilean consulting firm, partnered with San Francisco-based Climate Earth to compute what they believe to be the first life cycle environmental......
Serious Energy Greens Glass at New York Stock Exchange
By Leslie Guevarra, October 05, 2011
Fresh from its window pane retrofit at the Empire State Building, Serious Energy has tackled a new project at another landmark in the Big Apple....
GHG Protocol Launches Long-Awaited Value Chain, Product Standards
By Tilde Herrera, October 04, 2011
For years, companies have clamored for internationally recognized methodologies to measure the greenhouse gas emissions from products and across corporate value chains....
'App Store' Aims to Get LEED Buildings to Deliver on Performance
By Leslie Guevarra, September 30, 2011
An app that enables LEED users to close gaps between building design and performance is among the cloud-based offerings from a new line business for the Indie Energy Systems Company....
Small Businesses Set Their Sights on Sustainability
By GreenBiz Staff, September 30, 2011
Case studies from the US, Canada and the UK show small firms are getting big benefits from environmental improvements.
Why We Need a Green Standard for Natural Gas
By Truman Semans, September 21, 2011
The success of the Green-e renewable energy certification points the path to a solution that can bring the country's relatively cleaner natural gas supplies to market without polluting the......
Do US Companies Finally 'Get' Carbon Disclosure? Yes, But...
By Tilde Herrera, September 19, 2011
A greater number of S&P 500 companies are integrating climate change into their business strategies and getting board-level oversight, but they fall behind their global peers when it......
CDP S&P 500 Report 2011
By GreenBiz Staff, September 19, 2011
The annual snapshot of the climate change practices of S&P 500 companies....
A Closer Look at the Environmental Records of Top 10 CDP Leaders
By Tilde Herrera, September 16, 2011
Our archives are full of accounts of how the top 10 carbon disclosure and performance companies have been working toward more sustainable operations for years.
CDP's Annual Report Finds Sustainable Companies are More Profitable
By Tilde Herrera, September 14, 2011
Global 500 companies on the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index and Carbon Performance Leadership Index yielded twice the average return of the Global 500 as a whole, according to the latest......
Rising Demand for Good Green Data Drives Trucost's Expansion
By Tilde Herrera, September 14, 2011
Research firm Trucost has seen increased demand for its massive database of environmental impacts from thousands of the world's largest companies....
CDP Global 500 Report 2011
By ClimateBiz Staff, September 14, 2011
The CDP's annual examination of the climate change-related practices of the world's largest companies....

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