An Interview with Karen Seeh, Corporate Sustainability Strategist

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Karen Seeh is a young environmental professional and consultant in [...]

An Education in Green Business

More and more business graduate schools are offering degrees in sustainability, a trend that parallels the slow but sure move in business to adopt green initiatives–whether because of the companies’ social values, because of the economic benefits of sustainability, or because environmental policy requires it.
Environmental studies departments in universities have been a harbor for green [...]

Corporate Social Responsibility Is A Win-Win

For so many years, social and environmental causes have been stigmatized as being bad for business, at irrational loggerheads with saner commerce. Yet here we have a program that creates a win-win-win-win situation for consumers, corporations, charities, and people in need in Africa. And this result is achieved by working within the system, not outside [...]

I Have A Dream… A Green Dream

Imagine a world in which socially responsible and eco-friendly practices actually boost a company’s bottom line. It’s closer than you think.
I could not have said it better myself. So reads the front page of this week’s BusinessWeek. In a special report by Pete Engardio, entitled Beyond the Green Corporation, the business industry mag looks at [...]

Who Knew Shampoos and Lipsticks Could Save the World!

Aveda is a great example of a successful consumer products company that incorporates environmental sustainability practices into everything it does. An Estée Lauder company that specializes in beauty and care products, Aveda was started in 1978 by founder Horst Rechelbacher, who describes the company’s mission as caring “for the world we live in, from the [...]

Top 10 Events and Films that Created Change in 2006

Looking back at 2006, there were a lot of major events and people that changed the path of history. Rather than a traditional top ten list there is a list of five actual events that made an economic, social, or environmental change, and since everyone loves movies, there is also a list of five thinking-man’s [...]