Sustainability

Ford will start a project to survey its 35 top global supply chain partners to estimate their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Measurements are the first step in sustainability.

1 | May 20, 2010 8:29am | By Larry Dignan

Hewlett Packard researchers demonstrated a design for a sustainable datacenter that can be fueled by cow manure.

1 | May 20, 2010 6:08am | By Andrew Nusca

At the EcoFocus event in New York City, SmartPlanet editor Andrew Nusca talks with Hewlett Packard about greenwashing, corporate sustainability and the case for high-speed rail.

May 19, 2010 1:51pm | By Andrew Nusca

Energy, packaging and water usage are three primary pillars of its sustainability innovation investments.

2 | May 19, 2010 10:57am | By Heather Clancy

There are certain companies that all students of corporate sustainability or green business initiatives MUST watch, and one of those is giant retailer Walmart.

5 | May 17, 2010 9:14am | By Heather Clancy

Speaking in Orlando, Al Gore made the business case for sustainability and said that corporations play a key role in carrying the effort forward.

2 | May 17, 2010 8:13am | By Larry Dignan

Cities learn on run more efficiently on analytics, and the nation's busiest transit agency opens up its data to third-party developers.

May 17, 2010 8:11am | By Joe McKendrick

Speaking in Frankfurt, Virgin CEO Richard Branson touted the Carbon War Room group as a way to "remove gigatons of carbon out of industry."

May 17, 2010 7:50am | By Larry Dignan

Stonyfield CEO Gary Hirshberg says the challenges of the yogurt business are made easier by scale. He's been setting up a model that looks surprisingly like--are you ready for this--Wal-Mart.

7 | May 17, 2010 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Flying cars -- long the idealistic vision of futurists past and present -- may always be too impractical. But not impossible.

10 | May 15, 2010 6:00am | By Joe McKendrick

Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology are creating crystal sensors to aid the production of syngas.

May 14, 2010 8:58am | By Melissa Mahony

Indian IT services company Wipro and German enterprise software firm SAP will collaborate on sustainability performance and energy management products.

1 | May 14, 2010 7:23am | By Andrew Nusca

The United Nation's new framework aims to provide practical tips to urban areas, no matter their size.

May 14, 2010 4:50am | By Heather Clancy

3M says it will donate its film, adhesive and coating expertise to help integrate North Africa and the Middle East with Europe's power network.

May 12, 2010 10:30am | By Andrew Nusca

So far, the financial services giant has spent more than $24.3 billion on its own initiatives related to climate change

1 | May 12, 2010 4:04am | By Heather Clancy

Company aims to boost the amount of recyclable content in its packaging by 75 percent by 2012.

1 | May 11, 2010 8:00am | By Heather Clancy

SAP will join the Sustainability Consortium, a group that aims to put science behind the sustainability of consumer products.

1 | May 11, 2010 5:41am | By Larry Dignan

"We need to be careful that the cleanup doesn't compound the problem," a wetlands expert says.

7 | May 11, 2010 4:00am | By Christina Hernandez

Enterprise software company sets new standard for sustainability reporting and pledges to offer reporting framework to its customers

May 10, 2010 10:42am | By Heather Clancy

The image of the suburban cul-de-sac elicits large houses, green lawns and children playing outside. But cul-de-sacs are killing communities, according to new research.

13 | May 10, 2010 6:31am | By Andrew Nusca