To lower its carbon footprint, White Wave Foods is tackling methane emissions, carbon sequestration and utilities, such electricity and gasoline.
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White Wave Looks to the Farm to Improve Environmental Footprint
After surviving — and thriving — in five of the roughest economic years the country has known, there's a lot we should have done differently when we opened the doors of our green packaging company. Here's to helping others repeat the same mistakes.
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The 4 Big Mistakes We Made in Launching Our Green Business
A new report shows that U.S. cities can save billions in costs — while cleaning waterways and green neighborhoods — by leveraging private investment in green infrastructure.
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The Major Dividends Cities Reap from Investing in Green Infrastructure
The Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education have teamed up to promote a new tool that makes it free and relatively easy for any education institution to report its environmental impacts.
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‘Greenest College’ Rankings Get Easier with New Data-Gathering Effort
The company has now reduced its global waste generation by 50 percent since 2005, far surpassing a goal to pare down waste by just 15 percent by 2011.
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Kraft Achieves Zero Waste at 36 Food Plants Around the World
The market for tapping value from recyclable waste streams is caught in a series of binds that keep it from scaling, even though countless companies have achieved major benefits from cutting waste out of the loop.
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Stop Wasting Waste: Fixing the Travesty of Lost Value in Recycling
A new book from Trucost executive Cary Krosinsky looks at how sustainable investment in an era of growing resource scarcity can yield significant opportunities for boosting your portfolio's performance.
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Tracking the Evolution of Sustainable Investing
Siemens and Johnson Controls win energy performance contracts from the U.S. Army totaling more than $60 million for solar, wind and retrofit projects to improve efficiency.
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Siemens, JCI Land $60M in Army Contracts for Green Power, Efficiency
Just how much energy does the U.S. military use, what the costs in dollars and the risk to soldiers, and how can they all be reduced? The American Council On Renewable Energy and Advanced Energy Economy are working with the Defense Department to answer those questions.
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What Will It Take to Power the US Military with Green Energy?
Last year, Google invested more than $900 million in clean energy projects. But does it have an energy policy? Does it need one?
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Why Google Invests in Clean Energy