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A Yearlong Road to Green Certification
Rachel Patterson of San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett law firm offers a snapshot of the year it took her company to become a certified green business.
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In this landmark report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be more environmentally responsible? It introduces the GreenBiz Index, 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
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ATLANTA, Ga. -- The Coca-Cola Company is building a bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in South Carolina to increase the availability of food-grade recycled plastic. -
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Driven by soaring fuel costs and the public’s call for greater environmental responsibility, more firms are trying to green their supply chain and increasingly are looking for outside help to improve the eco-friendliness, economy and efficiency of their transportation and logistics, a new study says. -
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The U.K. retailer has given out 80 percent fewer plastic bag since adding a bag fee, and Los Angeles has approved a plan to eliminate plastic bags in the city. -
GLEN ALLEN, Va. -- The market for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) will exceed $4 billion in revenues by 2013 and surpass $8 billion in 2015, according to a new report from a leading industry analyst firm. -
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An overview of agricultural concerns warns about what issues need to be focused on today and in the future. -
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Some car manufacturers have made gains in reducing chemicals that can be emitted as fumes. -
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- A U.K. group is calling for a climate change strategy similar in scale to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, including a massive investment in renewables and major shake-up of taxation and financial systems. -
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The race to create the infrastructure for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is on -- the city of San Francisco, state of Tennessee and a slew of automakers and utilities announced separate plans to lay the groundwork for the mass introduction of PHEVs beginning in 2010. -
OAKLAND, Calif. -- TerraChoice's survey of procurement professionals found that green purchasing policies have grown and discovered which issues have increased in importance. -
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Eighty-six percent of companies on the Standard and Poors 100 Index have corporate sustainability websites, compared to 58 percent in 2005. Roughly half produced a sustainability report last year, 26 percent higher than the 39 companies that issued one two years before. -
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With research by the Pew Center and $1.4 million in funding from Toyota, the project seeks to identify successful energy efficiency strategies among top corporations and share the information in a major public report. -
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- A recent survey by IDC finds that even the smallest businesses are starting to take green initiatives to heart, especially when it comes to adopting IT applications that will make it easier to make their supply chains greener. -
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Companies behind some of the biggest brands on U.K. supermarket shelves have pledged to slash the environmental impact of transporting their goods. -
STURTEVANT, Wis. -- The maker of Signature, Johnson Wax Professional and Butcher's said its reformulation of floor finishes has decreased the volatile organic compound (VOC) content of a leading product line, achieving a result more than two years earlier than required by the California Air Resources Board. -
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A nationwide transition to fuel cell powered vehicles would eventually severely curb carbon dioxide emissions, but will take time and money.
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