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What would the Future MBA look like? Explore the potential in week 11 of this new 100-day series.
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What would the Future MBA look like? Explore the potential in week 9 of this new 100-day series.
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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.
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Yalmaz Siddiqui, the head of environmental strategy at the office retailer, explains how the motto 'Be Greener, Buy Greener and Sell Greener' shapes the company's actions.
by Marc Gunther
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The resort company earned a WasteWise Acheivement Award in part for its recycling of 8,722 tons of food in 2010 alone.
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The winners of the annual StopWaste Partnership Business Efficiency Awards offer useful examples of how companies large and small are putting their operations under the magnifying glass to cut costs and trim waste.
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Putting energy management systems in place in its manufacturing facilities was one of several steps that have helped the beverage maker earn the highest score ever recorded by The Carbon Trust.
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The company has set an ambitious goal to make its 27-year-old Frito-Lay manufacturing facility in Arizona a "near net zero" consumer of energy and water. Here's how it's progressing.
by John Davies
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Sharon Nunes, the head of IBM's Smarter Cities initiative, personifies the kinds of evolution that IBM has undergone over the past 100 years.
by Ann Goodman
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The first dispatch from this year's crop of EDF Climate Corps Fellows offers three lessons from the hands-on training all 57 fellows received at MIT's Sloan School of Management last month.
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A global survey of more than 750 CEOs finds that perceptions of sustainability's role in business -- and its impacts on business -- vary widely by sector, with some industries far ahead of the laggards.
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Major League Baseball is making big strides in reducing its environmental impact, and the Cleveland Indians have taken that goal deeply to heart.
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Despite the economy, and despite the slow progress on environmental issues from many businesses, real change is beginning to take hold among a few exceptional companies.
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Two sets of rankings released in the last week aim to gauge the greening of the nation's colleges and universities. But it's in the gap between the rankings that the most interesting results are found.
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In this in-depth interview, Interface founder and CEO Ray Anderson explains what it takes to be a 'radical industrialist,' and how the very first green project his company undertook both paid for and paved the way for every project since.
by Marc Gunther
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A management consulting firm released a new report outlining the steps any company can take to get on the path toward environmental sustainability. How many of these has your firm already accomplished?
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Combat Climate Change, a new coalition of 46 major international companies including BP, Citigroup, Reuters, Alcan and GE, is pushing global governments to join together for immediate action to address climate change.
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Construction company Skanska has been rated the number one green builder in the first-ever Green Contractors Survey conducted by McGraw-Hill's Engineering News-Record. The Turner Corporation and Bovis Lend Lease round out the top three in the ranking of the top 50 contractors.
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The release of the fifth annual report from the Climate Disclosure Project selects 68 companies that are leading the charge against climate change. The group also found that 77 percent of the world's 500 largest companies are reporting greenhouse gas emissions data.
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In the ninth annual survey of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Norwegian aluminum company Norsk Hydro took the overall top score, while BMW topped the automotive index for the third year running.
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With the addition of Ford and Chrysler to its membership, USCAP has expanded to 29 organizations and plans to step up its push to enact federal climate change legislation.
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For the 12th annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, the EPA recognized a combination of academic and private-sector innovations in reducing or eliminating waste in manufacturing processes.
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Albuquerque and Fayetteville, Ark., received the top honors in the first annual award ceremony, which celebrates cities that adopt innovative practices to increase energy efficiency to help curb global warming.
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Google becomes the latest of the big tech companies to announce major environmental initiatives, starting with its goal of becoming carbon neutral by the end of 2007.
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The Climate Counts Scorecard ranks 56 major companies on a wide range of criteria that aims to help shoppers know which companies are serious in their commitment to fight climate change.