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High Carbon Companies Have Lower Values

New research by researchers from the University of Wisconsin, University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University found that companies with higher carbon emissions tend to have lower valuations....

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PUMA and Environmental Costs

Did you hear that “sportlifestyle company” PUMA burns up about half its income in environmental degradation? That factoid was not emphasized in this week’s announcement that the company had developed...

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Setback for Carbon Sequestration

The New York Times reported today that American Electric Power has decided to put aside plans to build a full-scale carbon-capture plant at its Mountaineer coal-fired power plant in West Virginia...

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Pharma Companies Face a Supply Chain Sustainability Opportunity

We published another sustainability goals benchmark report today, this one  focused on the pharmaceutical industry. A couple of things that stand out from the benchmark: - Judging from the goals they...

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Corporate Sustainability Leaders to Focus on Employee Engagement and Supply...

Study Identifies the Only Two Sustainability Ranking Schemes Relevant to a Majority of Companies New York City (November 30, 2011) – Green Research, a New York-based corporate sustainability research...

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Will The New Biobased Label Help Your Brand?

By Bonnie J. Wallace It’s becoming clear that the proliferation of eco-targeted labels (currently 424 in 26 countries, according to Ecolabel Index) is contributing more to confusion than to loyalty...

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The Most Interesting Things Today

One of the most interesting things for me at today’s New York Times conference on the future of energy was a comment that U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu made. Thomas Friedman asked Secretary Chu...

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When to Use Carbon Offsets and Renewable Energy Credits

I recently saw another research firm quoted as saying some firms are “buying” green credentials by purchasing renewable energy credits and offsets. The implication was that there is something dishonest...

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The Impact of Apple’s Withdrawal from EPEAT

It’s hard to know why Apple made the decision to opt out of certification by EPEAT, the green computing standard, without hearing from the company directly about it. One thing is all but certain: the...

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Yogurt Maker’s Sustainability Approach Has a Different Flavor

Yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm recently revealed that it had calculated the carbon footprint of 150 of its products, three quarters of the items it sells. (Disclosure: some of those items are in my...

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