We've just reached the halfway point in the public comment period for ULE 880 - Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations the company-level sustainability standard my colleagues and I helped develop so it's a good time to take stock.Firs... [more]

Today, a new sustainability standard for companies is being released for public comment: ULE 880 - Sustainability for Manufacturing Organizations, a partnership between UL Environment, a division of Underwriters Laboratories, and my colleagues at Gre... [more]

I recently posted a query on Twitter and Facebook asking a simple but vexing question: Someone committed to the environment is called an environmentalist. What do you call someone committed to sustainability? The answers I got were largely snarky, s... [more]

It's been exactly a year since Walmart's historic launch of a Sustainability Index and other measures to assess suppliers and products and, remarkably, the sun still rises in the East and sets in the West.As I stated in my analysis that day July ... [more]

We've come to learn over the years that the most potent opportunities and solutions in the world of sustainable business involve design, in its broadest sense: design of products, processes, organizations, business models, systems of commerce, and mo... [more]

Ten years ago today, GreenBiz.com went from dream to reality, as we flipped the switch on the site, making it live for the first time. An image of the site on that day is shown here. (You can click it to view a larger version.)We've come a long way... [more]

We're doing everything we can to help the environment. We are reexamining how we operate and are working hard every day to reduce our impacts. We are committed to making the world a better place for our children's grandchildren and beyond. We believ... [more]

Today, the veil of secrecy is being lifted on a project in which my colleagues and I have been engaged for several years: the creation of a global sustainability standard for business.The standard is being developed in partnership with UL Environment... [more]

Earth Day is behind us and I'm digging out of my cluttered digital desktop to uncover the nuggets of value that have been hidden amid the countless pitches and come-ons typical of April's environmental hoopla. Among those nuggets: three reports and g... [more]