A new study suggests that companies that publish press releases on their carbon footprints -- and their efforts to shrink those footprints -- see a boost in share value in the days after announcements.

After 10 months as the leader of the group, Nixon is moving on, while the Consortium leans on McKinsey and its board to move the organization forward.

The country stepped up its opposition to the controversial Emissions Trading System, the latest move from a large number of countries that are opposed to paying for carbon emissions generated within European airspace.

The first full day of a technology-focused gathering in the run-up to this summer's Rio + 20 conference in Brazil highlighted how Big Data, coupled with innovative ideas for dealing with Big Data, can make big impacts at every level.

A relatlively large number of business leaders are shifting their firms to be ready for the new energy economy, but important questions remain, including how to measure success and how to convince others to join in the quest.

The head of sustainability and innovation at Nike offers her advice to entrepreneurs and other sustainability professionals, and details on how her company is experimenting with radically new and different materials, redesigning supply chains, and driving social innovation in the athletic apparel industry.

The latest figures from Ernst & Young show a 4.5 percent dip in investments in clean technologies last year. Given how bad the Year of Solyndra was for all things green, there's reason for optimism.

The co-founder of Artists for Humanity talks about training in the arts, and all it entails in terms of community, responsibility and hard work, helps to set them up as future leaders of a more sustainable world.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Last year, Google invested more than $900 million in clean energy projects. But does it have an energy policy? Does it need one?

Walmart in particular marks a big leap forward, coming up from 15th place three months ago to land in third place. Generating green power on-site -- where Walmart is the second-biggest green power creator -- is what helped move the retailer up.

From big players like IBM and SAP to smaller startups like C3, vendors of energy and carbon management software have a big challenge to capture a slice of the broad demand for companies of all sizes.

By all accounts, the electric vehicle industry appears to be a market on the brink of mainstream adoption, yet they're still falling short of expectations. What's the missing element?

The CDP's brand-new 2012 supply chain report tracks the impressive economic savings that companies that manage their scope 3 emissions are earning -- but also highlights how few companies are taking advantage of these benefits.

Perhaps the best trend in sustainable business is how major green milestones -- ranging from LEED Platinum buildings to zero-waste facilities -- have become so commonplace as to be not "news."