The U.S. Postal Service unveiled goals to significantly curb its emissions and petroleum use Thursday, a week after President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to set create action plans to reduce their environmental impacts.
In this excerpt from a GreenBiz Radio podcast, Aron Cramer explains some of the ways that Business for Social Responsibility is helping companies succeed in a world that has been reset by economic, environmental and social crises.
(Episode 96): Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, offers a look at some of the issues that the forthcoming conference will address, from the ecological forces shaping the business world to telling the tale of sustainability in China.
The Clean Trucks Program at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles has succeeded in getting more than 2,000 dirty rigs off the road in its first year. The program has also added more than 5,500 clean trucks, helping the ports cut truck emissions by nearly 70 percent.
In a wide-ranging and in-depth 90-minute conversation with Joel Makower, Rand Waddoups, Walmart's Senior Director for Sustainability explores the knowns and unknowns driving the retailer's Sustainability Index.
Through a congestion charge levied on drivers in Stockholm, Sweden, IBM has managed to cut traffic by 18 percent, reduce emissions by more than 14 percent, and generate the equivalent of US$84 million in infrastructure revenue every year.
A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
The president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy discusses his work on Reducing Emissions from Degradation and Deforestation (REDD), a crucial strategy for dealing with climate change and a key element of forthcoming climate policy.
The brand new Wheego Whip, a micro-sized all-electric vehicle that goes 40 miles on a charge and retails for under $20K, offers a promising solution to meet companies' urban fleet needs.