Royal Caribbean Cruises and the corporate parent of Travelocity are among the travel industry heavyweights that are lining up behind standards set by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

Although it's a festival of excess in many ways, Super Bowl XLVI, taking place this Sunday, reveals how far the NFL -- and pro sports in general -- has come in considering and trying to reduce their environmental impacts.

California joins New York and Washington in requiring insurers that that write in excess of $300 million in premiums to respond to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Climate Risk Survey.

Okay guys, here is a flow chart with some of the plethora of steps you might encounter when building a licensed cheesemaking facility. Some the steps are highlighted in pink- these you may only encounter as options or mandatory steps in California. The green steps should all be decisions made early in the process, even if the permitting step occurs later. Let me know if you have any input on this chart, I am tweaking it for my EcoFarms Presentation in Pacific Grove February 3rd.

Gianaclis Caldwell is the author of The Farmstead Creamery Advisor.

The National Park Service is cutting energy consumption for lighting on the National Mall by as much as 65 percent with the retrofit of 174 street lamps.

To lower its carbon footprint, White Wave Foods is tackling methane emissions, carbon sequestration and utilities, such electricity and gasoline.

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.

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.

“Michael Shuman answers a lot of questions I’ve always wondered about, and in the process paints a practical vision of exactly where we need to be headed in this country. Consider this book an excellent investment!”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and The End of Nature We’re very excited to announce that Local Dollars, Local [...]

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.

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.

(New York) – Highlighting the role of the UN Global Compact in advancing a more sustainable global economy and calling for wider adoption of corporate sustainability principles, the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability today released its final report, titledResilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing. In the report, the 22-member panel, established in August 2010 to formulate a new blueprint for sustainable development and … [visit site to read more]

(Davos) – Marking the first anniversary of Global Compact LEAD, a platform for advanced corporate sustainability performance, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenged private sector leaders to accelerate uptake of global corporate sustainability practices in the months leading up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).

The high-level LEAD luncheon was chaired by the Secretary-General and co-hosted by the Swiss Government, the UN Global Compact and the Guile … [visit site to read more]

(Davos) – Top executives of companies engaged in Global Compact LEAD, a platform for advanced corporate sustainability practices, met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and heads of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Davos today to discuss ways of boosting both extent and impact of business partnerships to advance UN goals.

The meeting comes on the heels of the Secretary-General’s earlier announcement to … [visit site to read more]

(Davos) – Top executives of companies engaged in Global Compact LEAD, a platform for advanced corporate sustainability practices, met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and heads of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Davos today to discuss ways of boosting both extent and impact of business partnerships to advance UN goals.

The meeting comes on the heels of the Secretary-General’s earlier announcement to … [visit site to read more]

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Lead the Carters Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program to include the following initiatives:

• Drive the factory audit and corrective action process to ensure compliance with Carters CSR policy and minimize the risk for the organization through the management of various third-party vendors.
• Ensure that the Carters CSR program is kept current for all regulations and … [visit site to read more]
  

UL-RS is a risk management consultancy specializing in responsible sourcing solutions. UL-RS is recognized as one of the world’s leading consultancies in supply chain labor standards, providing benchmark guidance to global Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers. UL-RS has 30 offices worldwide dedicated to carrying out supply chain assessments that focus on child labor, forced labor, wage and hour issues, safety, and environmental concerns in international manufacturing and agricultural … [visit site to read more]

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.

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.

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.