Many small businesses lack the resources to communicate and collaborate with other small businesses. There is simply not enough time or manpower to delegate to it. During a time when green innovations and ideas are sprouting up daily, small green businesses are often left in the dust with little hope of capitalizing on these new [...]

Imagine that you are a sustainably-minded corporate business weathering the current economic crisis. You have some tough decisions to make. You can either cut costs by decreasing spending on renewable energy credits, recycled paper, and other sustainable aspects of your business, or you can layoff or limit the hours of many of your employees. If [...]

PSEG, a utility company in New Jersey, has just received the go-ahead for their Solar4All program — a program to establish solar power across the state using centralized and non-centralized solar power sources.

Several weeks ago at a company summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, the world’s largest retailer announced plans and some details for the most comprehensive and ambitious retail sustainability index in history.
During the last couple years Wal-Mart has been taking steps, some more significant than others, to become more sustainable. The company is experimenting with hybrid and [...]

Think that turning on the light switch translates to the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions during all hours of the day? Think again.
Last Friday saw the creation of realtimecarbon.org, a United Kingdom-based website that allows UK citizens to view the varying carbon intensity of their energy usage throughout the day.
The site tracks the carbon [...]

The Plastics 2020 Challenge Takes Global Centrestage
An alliance of the worldwide plastic industry, consisting of leading trade associations, has been forged to ensure that they are able to alter the common perception that the plastic industry is environmentally-insensitive. This significant development has come about in the form of ‘The Plastics 2020 Challenge’ organized by [...]