Sustainable Business Practices

Industrial-style farming, often known as the "green revolution" has been widely credited with saving perhaps 1 billion people from starvation by boosting the yield of grain crops in India, China, Pakistan, Mexi...

People want to know: Are green jobs real? The answer is resoundingly “yes.” With roughly 93,500 direct and indirect jobs, the American solar industry now employs about 20,000 more workers than the U.S. ...

G.E. and German photovoltaics company Gehrlicher Solar A.G. announced the start of construction on a 1-megawatt solar park in Aschheim, Germany. The project is part of the two companies’ plan to establish solar...

Announced it will develop a sustainable procurement policy that addresses deforestation, after recent protests by Greenpeace charging the toy maker with sourcing its packaging from threatened rainforests. (m...

Gillette, Coca Cola, Intel, GlaxoSmithKlein and Heinz are among this year’s DuPont Packaging Award winners. “Nearly all of the winning innovations related to reducing waste in the system,” sa...

Continuing a string of clean-energy investments, Google said today that it will invest $280 million to fund residential solar installations through partner SolarCity. (more…)...

The inauguration ceremony of Dalian Eco-Tech Innovation City will be held at Ganjingzi District in Dalian, a port city of Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, June 15, 2011. Covering a planning area of...

 Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Friday it would offer World Bank-backed green bonds to its wealth management clients, capturing returns from investments in low-carbon projects in emerging economies....

Today announced the extension of the FIFA World Cup™ sponsorship agreement with leading solar energy company, Yingli Green Energy. The company, who initially signed up as a sponsor of the 2010 FIFA (more&hel...

In order to help the gaming industry further enhance its commitment to sustainability, Cintas Corporation (NASDAQ: CTAS) today introduced the new Jacquard Striped Shirt for casinos. Partially made of recycled p...