ECONOMY

Corporate Responsibility

Safeway, Whole Foods Top Greenpeace Seafood Ratings

Greenpeace has long been an ardent crusader for the health of the world’s oceans. They have worked with several companies […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

May 7, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

What Secrets Are Hiding Off Your Balance Sheet?

17th in a series of excerpts from the book The HIP Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). See other articles in the […]

HIPInvestor

May 6, 2012

Finance

Gas Boom Might Not Be All It's Fracked Up to Be

Is cheap natural gas really all that cheap? The risks associated with fracking have begun to raise questions, and when […]

Tina Casey

May 5, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Nike Challenges Customers to Design Their Own Virtual Green Athletic Wear

Nike has just released its most recent sustainability report, and it is quite possibly one of the most compelling and […]

Leon Kaye

May 4, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Finding Your Place in the Bioeconomy Blueprint

Last week, President Obama laid out an ambitious plan to channel scientific innovation into economic growth, called the National Bioeconomy […]

Tina Casey

May 4, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

5 Lessons on Consumers' Preference for Purpose

For consumers worldwide, values are the new currency and purpose is the new paradigm. You might think this sentence was […]

Raz Godelnik

May 4, 2012

Finance

Warby Parker: An Eyeglass Company with an Inspiring Vision

Last Friday I had an experience many of you may share: wandering around the optical shop after an eye exam, […]

Paul S

May 4, 2012

Finance

'Too Big to Fail' Banks Less Profitable, More Risky than Sustainability-Focused Banks

Co-authored with Tom Bowmer of HIP Investor Inc. How many banks are “too big to fail?” At least 29, according […]

HIPInvestor

May 4, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Abbott Increases Sustainable Packaging, Decreases Carbon Emissions

This week Abbott Laboratories released its most recent corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. The pharmaceutical industry giant employs over 90,000 […]

Leon Kaye

May 3, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

EPA Protects West Coast Ports Besieged by Coal

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and […]

CSRHub

May 3, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Interview: Beth Holzman of Timberland Talks CSR

Timberland has established itself as a leader in CSR reporting, following steps they have taken over the years such as […]

Raz Godelnik

May 3, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Seven Steps to Turning Your CSR Report into a Year of Communications Content

We’ve partnered with AHA!, a creative communications firm, to deliver this series on CR communications. Throughout the series, we’ll explore […]

TriplePundit

May 2, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

ALEC and the Limits of Corporate Transparency

As the list of major companies cutting their ties to the lobbying organization ALEC keeps on growing, a pattern has […]

Tina Casey

May 2, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Walmart’s Foundation Gives $71 Million to the Environment

Last year, the Walton Family Foundation, heirs to the Walmart fortune, gave environmental conservation grants totaling $71.4 million to 160 […]

RP Siegel

May 2, 2012

Finance

Delta Air Lines Buys Oil Refinery… Can You Say Peak Oil?

Now here’s something I was never expecting: Delta Airlines has apparently agreed to buy a Pennsylvania oil refinery from ConocoPhillips for $150 […]

Nick Aster

May 2, 2012

Finance

Could the SolarCity IPO Hail a New Competitive Era for Solar?

This has not been the best of times for the solar power industry. Recent bankruptcies, the lingering Solyndra fallout and […]

Leon Kaye

May 1, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

The Truth Will Out: The Power of Crowds

The following post is part of a CSRHub series focusing on 10 trends that are driving corporate transparency and disclosure in the coming […]

CSRHub

May 1, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Ford to EV Dealers: Meet Environmental Requirements

An environmentally friendly car dealership? Like “responsible drinking,” or “Walmart organic food,” that term at first may sound like an […]

Leon Kaye

May 1, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

How to Boost the Bottom Line with Sustainable Products and Initiatives

16th in a series of excerpts from the book The HIP Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). See other articles in the […]

HIPInvestor

May 1, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

As Earth Month Winds Down, Honest Tea Recycles Old Facebook Posts

Last week Honest Tea launched a Facebook app that may just encourage you and your peers to recycle. The company […]

Leon Kaye

April 30, 2012

Finance

Beginning of the End for Big Box Dominance?

With the announcement of the closure of 50 big box retail outlets, Best Buy recently added more evidence to a […]

Scott Cooney

April 30, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Unilever Improves Supply Chain, Faces Challenges with Customer Behavior

Image: Unilever CEO Paul Polman.  On Tuesday, Unilever released its first year’s progress report on the progress it made to […]

Raz Godelnik

April 27, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

ALEC Lobbies EPA to Designate Carbon Intensive Palm Oil as a Biofuel

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has lobbied against climate change legislation, health care reform, and a host of other […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

April 27, 2012

Finance

Shareholder Resolution Filed With Duke Energy Expresses Growing Concern Over Coal

Duke Energy will hold its annual meeting next week, and as is the case with other utilities, non profit advocacy […]

Leon Kaye

April 27, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

4 Fast Steps to Put a Price Tag on Ecosystem Services

What’s business if not value creation? Take something that doesn’t cost very much, add value, and sell it for more, […]

jennifer boynton

April 27, 2012

Finance

Microloan Interest Rates in Impact Investing

By: Lonnie Shekhtman For those of us who follow microfinance news closely (I’m not the only one out there who […]

TriplePundit

April 27, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

GM Sees No Grounds to Throw Coffee Away

These are good times for General Motors (GM). Once left for dead, GM has climbed back on top of its […]

Leon Kaye

April 27, 2012

Finance

Women Picket Facebook Offices to Protest Its All-Male Board

Social media has inspired people to use their voices to protest everything from products and services to politics, and physical […]

Andrea Newell

April 26, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Human Rights Lose Out at Bahrain Grand Prix

If you are a Formula One Fan, you are well aware that Sebastian Vettel won last weekend’s Grand Prix in […]

Leon Kaye

April 26, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Target Hits a Bullseye Introducing Sustainability to a Mass Market

Target may just look like another big box store on the outside, but more of its product lines have a […]

Leon Kaye

April 25, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Rainfall Shortage in PA: Bad for Farmers, Good for Anti-Frackers

When it comes to slowing down fracking operations, should we now pray for drought? That’s one of the perverse conclusions […]

Bill DiBenedetto

April 25, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Geothermal Gives Missouri Bragging Rights to "Hottest School"

If Missouri University of Science and Technology wasn’t already on your list of hot schools, now its day has come. […]

Tina Casey

April 25, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Bar Codes Apps Allow Consumers To Make Informed Choices

Consumers are becoming more socially conscious. A Nielsen survey released in March found that 46 percent of global consumers are […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

April 25, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Exclusive: Ford Cuts Global Waste by 100 Million Pounds and Counting

Today the Ford Motor Company announced huge successes in cutting waste at its factories and has pledged to ramp up […]

Leon Kaye

April 24, 2012

Finance

Slow Money Waters the Crop

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and […]

CSRHub

April 24, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Five Core Principles for Successful E-Newsletter Creation

By Anita Brady In our increasingly paperless world, disbursing information is becoming both easier and more difficult at the same time. […]

TriplePundit

April 24, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

L’Oréal's "Reconstructed Biologic Tissue" May Make Animal Testing Obsolete

Can a beauty products company lead on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR)? L’Oréal believes so. Last week the $26.8 […]

Leon Kaye

April 23, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Why and How Higher Education is Embracing Sustainability

By John Mascarenhas, Sustainametrics It’s exciting to see colleges and universities in all regions of the United States pursuing sustainability.  […]

TriplePundit

April 23, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Interview: Hunter Lovins at Fortune Brainstorm Green

At this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, I had a chance to talk briefly with a long time colleague and […]

Nick Aster

April 21, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Interview: Bart Alexander Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer at MolsonCoors

At this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, I had a chance to talk briefly with MolsonCoors Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, […]

Nick Aster

April 21, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Increasing the Impact of TOMS Shoes

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and […]

CSRHub

April 20, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

White House Working Group to Ask: What the Frack?

The heat is on fracking at the grassroots and federal levels. Last week, President Obama issued an Executive Order forming […]

Bill DiBenedetto

April 20, 2012

Finance

The Next Web Gold Rush: US Crowdfunding Sites?

Something happened on April 5th that may mark a seismic shift in how start-ups get funded. The JOBS Act will […]

Paul S

April 20, 2012

Finance

Citi CEO Latest to Get Slapped With “Say On Pay” No Vote

“Say on Pay” has been put to the test once again, this time at Citi. Say on Pay, one part […]

Leon Kaye

April 20, 2012

Finance

Interview: Jeff Miller, Founder & CEO, Wheelz

At this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, I had a chance to talk briefly with Jeff Miller, Founder & CEO […]

Nick Aster

April 20, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

PepsiCo’s Factory of the Future

Editor’s Note: The following is a non-sponsored guest op-ed by Al Halvorsen Sr. Director of Environmental Sustainability for PepsiCo.  By Al Halvorsen […]

TriplePundit

April 20, 2012

Finance

BP’s Cover-up of Previous Blowout Revealed

Ecowatch.org just released newly uncovered evidence of a Deepwater Horizon-type blowout of a BP rig in the Caspian Sea, in […]

RP Siegel

April 19, 2012

Finance

Jeffrey Hollender on Sustainable Banking

Powerful news: A recent study proves that sustainable banks deliver higher financial returns than some of the world’s largest financial […]

jhollender

April 19, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Ford Determined to Win Hearts and Minds with Focus EV

Ford Motor Company’s all-electric 2012 Focus is hitting the consumer market, and Ford is taking no chances. After watching GM’s […]

Tina Casey

April 19, 2012

Finance

Can Shareholder Activism Spur Electric Utilities to Shift Away from Coal?

The entire basis for capitalism in the U.S. has been to foster individual liberty by ensuring economic opportunity for all […]

Andrew Burger

April 19, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Interview: Lee Broughton, Enterprise Holdings

At this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, I also had a few minutes to talk with Enterprise Holdings’ Head of […]

Nick Aster

April 19, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Interview: Scott Wicker, Chief Sustainability Officer, UPS

At this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, I had a chance to talk briefly with UPS’ Chief Sustainability Officer, Scott […]

Nick Aster

April 19, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Exclusive Interview: Walmart's Andrea Thomas, SVP Sustainability

Walmart CEO Mike Duke’s commitment to sustainability has been publicly challenged by green business pioneers like Jeffrey Hollender, founder of […]

Bill Roth

April 19, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

How Green Affiliate Marketing Can Grow Your Sustainable Business

Warren Fligg is the Founder of Performance-Based.com, a niche green affiliate marketing network that serves organic, fair trade green merchants […]

TriplePundit

April 19, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Stronger and Safer? BP's 2011 Sustainability Review

BP really wants to be considered one of the good guys. You can practically feel the eagerness saturating every page […]

RP Siegel

April 18, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility Magazine Releases “100 Best List”

Yesterday Corporate Responsibility Magazine released its 13th annual “100 Best Corporate Citizens List” during a ceremony at the New York […]

Leon Kaye

April 18, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

HP’s Printer Cartridge Recycling is More Than a Shred Ahead

The chances are high you have used Hewlett Packard printers in your home or office and plunked your used cartridges […]

Leon Kaye

April 18, 2012

Finance

The Five Hats Worn by Every Successful Chief Sustainability Officer

By Tony Calandro, Senior Vice President and Partner, VOX Global Companies are increasingly reporting bottom line benefits they’ve achieved by […]

TriplePundit

April 18, 2012

Finance

How High Gasoline Prices are Creating Jobs and Growing The Economy

For the first time in U.S. history the pain at the pump is not killing our economy. Counter-intuitively, high gasoline […]

Bill Roth

April 18, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Is Fracking Sustainable?

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and […]

CSRHub

April 18, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Two Cool New Green Projects on IndieGogo

I believe wholeheartedly in the power of community.  For many startups, especially in this era of tight credit, getting a […]

Scott Cooney

April 18, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Shell and Sierra Club Chat about Fracking

It’s not often that one gets to be a fly on the wall for a conversation between an oil exec […]

jennifer boynton

April 17, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Another Buffett Rule: No Shortcuts on the Environment

While the Senate attempts to deal with the so called Buffett Rule, which would force rich folks to pay taxes […]

Bill DiBenedetto

April 17, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

NASCAR Goes Green with All-Electric Ford Focus Pace Car

If you have ever raced a tiny electric car around a plastic track in your parents’ basement while imagining yourself […]

Tina Casey

April 17, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Kraft Foods Reduces Packaging and Travel Miles

Kraft Foods recently announced they have cut 45 million pounds of weight from the packaging of their products since 2010. According […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

April 17, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Philadelphia Inks Historic Green Agreement with EPA

Taking a cue from the growing green branding trend, the city of Philadelphia seems intent on establishing itself as the […]

Tina Casey

April 16, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Shell Touts Communities, Environment in Recent Sustainability Report

Can an energy company like Shell lead on environmental issues, community building and climate change? At first glance, such talk […]

Leon Kaye

April 16, 2012

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Energy Options: Pros and Cons

Tar Sands Oil: Pros and Cons

You might not know this, but Canada has oil reserves of 170 billion barrels, more than Iran and Nigeria combined. […]

RP Siegel

April 16, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Mexico to Pass Climate Law

By Alexandra Stark On Friday, Mexico’s House of Representatives passed a new piece of climate change legislation, making it only […]

TriplePundit

April 16, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

UK Government Takes on Tractor Trailer Emissions

The British government has launched a new £9.5 million plab to help the nation’s community of road haulage (AKA tractor […]

TriplePundit

April 14, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

Social Media: A New Tactic for Corporate Sustainability?

The following is part of a series by our friends at CSRHub (a 3p sponsor) – offering free sustainability and […]

CSRHub

April 13, 2012

Corporate Responsibility

My Little Pony Joins Hasbro's Green Team

Toy giant Hasbro has enlisted its iconic My Little Pony brand to boost its green cred, and the company isn’t […]

Tina Casey

April 13, 2012