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New research shows that many businesses around the world won’t start planning until 2018. Is this too late?
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More hotels have water-saving programs and completely smoke-free facilities, and almost half have or are working toward green certification.
by Glenn Hasek
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How to choose and implement the best Environmental Management Information System for your company.
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Swim, bike, or downward dog? Employees get their choice of athletic activities, plus a more sustainable workplace and commute, at a new corporate campus in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Gain new insight into organics management through conversations with leaders in the field.
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Sixty upstream companies (those from mine to smelter) have reported increased awareness of and less skepticism about implementing supply chain due diligence.
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As CSR becomes more specialized, it's time to take a look at where these efforts are placed in relation to community relations and corporate philanthropy.
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Take a look inside how a two-year-old startup got two of America's largest retailers to put its products on the shelves.
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Are a trophy and friendly competition among employees enough to actually spur the type of behavioral change that can power energy savings for businesses?
by Amber Buhl
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The retail giant has come a long way in surveying and measuring the sustainability of its supply chain, but Jeff Rice, Walmart's director of sustainability, says there's still a long way to travel.
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The EDF Climate Corps started five years ago as a good idea, and now has fellows working in scores of corporations.
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Despite the many differences between the Fortune 500 coffee retailer and the family-owned artisan roaster based in Mendocino, Calif., the two companies are committed to working with growers to source coffee beans as sustainably and ethically as possible.
by Marc Gunther
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Cloud computing could redefine the way we think about business ethics and sustainability. Here's how the cloud could affect two of our biggest sustainability challenges: climate change and human rights.
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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 customers make new friends.
by Marc Gunther
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Apple's China scandal demonstrates why companies need to do more to ensure the health of factory workers making their products. Here's how some manufacturers are netting returns from investing in women's health.
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by Marc Gunther
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The retail giant takes a stand on sandblasting denim, which can harm garment workers' lungs.
by Jennifer Kho
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One year into his term as chief sustainability officer at Ikea, Howard talks about his move from The Climate Group to the global retailer, Ikea's push for certified cotton and timber, and how to make sustainable products affordable.
by Heather King
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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.
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The gaming giant's latest look at its sustainability work highlights its energy-efficiency projects, emissions reductions targets and how it has recovered for reuse more than 100,000 pounds of lightly used soap.
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Caesars Entertainment, the world's most diversified gaming company, doesn't play games when it comes to its commitment to environmental stewardship.
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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.
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The major problems uncovered in Apple's -- and the IT industry's -- Chinese supply chain in a series of recent exposes go far beyond Apple to the heart of how companies measure their social and environmental impacts.
by Marc Gunther
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Nike's head of sustainability and innovation offers advice to entrepreneurs and other sustainability professionals, and tells how her company is creating radical innovation.
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Walmart in particular marks a big leap forward, coming up from 15th place three months ago to land in third place. Generating green power on-site -- where Walmart is the second-biggest green power creator -- is what helped move the retailer up.