Jan 2013	The Year Ahead: Environmental and Sustainability Hotspots in 2013 On Tuesday, January 15, Dr. Andrew Steer, President and CEO of World Resources Institute (WRI), hosted an annual Stories to Watch in 2013 event in Washington, D.C. Dr. Steer identified six hotspots – topics that will dominate headlines in the coming year... read more >

Sept - Dec 2012	Greg Sebasky, Chairman, Phillips North America, on Innovations in Sustainability Venture Sourcing In mid-October 2012, global leaders across private, public and NGO sectors convened in San Francisco to discuss innovations that will be key to growing sustainable urban environments. At the close of the conference, Triple Pundit contributor Heather King interviewed Greg Sebasky, Chairman of Phillips North America, to discuss Phillips own innovation strategies... read more >

April - Sept 2012	How sustainability is becoming a driver of growth for Unilever Unilever is the second largest FMCG company in the world, with a huge environmental and social footprint. We are committed to growing in all our markets, but believe that growth and sustainability must go hand in hand. Paul Polman, Unilever's CEO, has spoken of the need for a new type of capitalism that delivers for society as well as the business. His words have been backed with action at Unilever. We have moved away from quarterly profit reporting; aligned management incentives for the long term; and invested heavily in R&D to build our pipeline of innovations.... read more >

	How Novo Nordisk's Corporate DNA – "to act responsibly" – Drives Innovation Over the past 20 years, Novo Nordisk has been a pioneer and a success story on multiple fronts. The company is delivering needed health solutions globally. It's reaping strong financial returns for shareholders and continues to grow its employee base, boasting a strong corporate culture and a challenging and engaging working environment. Concurrently, it is meeting and beating standards for corporate social, ethical and environmental behavior.... read more >

	Innovation in Well Being - Natura Cosmeticos' Creation of Sustainable Value Antonio Luiz da Cunha Seabra had little respect for the cosmetics industry. Dominated by mega-corporations that channeled billions into the creation of brands that promised eternal youth, built around products riddled with toxins, it was an industry built on lies. He founded Natura in a Sao Paolo garage in 1969 as a kind of antidote to that toxic approach—to "deliver cosmetics as a means for self-knowledge and promoter of well-being, powered by human relations as a way to express life... read more >

	Nike's Gameplan for Growth that's Good for All Innovation is a cornerstone of the Nike brand. Our company was founded by two visionaries, Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, who set out to reinvent athletic footwear. Over the past decade, our drive to design and produce better, faster, lighter products has evolved into an even more ambitious agenda – to embed long term sustainability into our business. This broader vision calls for new approaches to design, management, partnership and new tools and metrics to support integration and adoption throughout Nike.... read more >

	HIP INvestor: How Quantifying Well-being and Impact Drivea Investors to Build a Better World When companies create quantifiable value for society as well as shareholders, those firms can be more profitable and become the foundation of a stronger portfolio. Across all investment types (cash, fixed income, equities, venture, real estate) human, social, and environmental impact can be quantified, scored and valued – and linked to profit and shareholder value. Yet, investors, advisers and brokers are ignoring this potential today. 21st century investors and their fiduciaries will capture this potential upside of a better world and strong portfolios... read more >

	How Coca Cola's Responsible Water Use Sustains Business, Communities and Ecosystems Given the evolving global water scarcity situation, the world's largest beverage company created a new dynamic with its bottlers and external partners, one focused on conserving local watersheds, thereby improving water efficiency, avoiding costs and maturing their water resource management... read more >

	Biomimicry 3.8: Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius The current industry model is broken. Our economy is built on a 'take make waste' model that negatively impacts environmental and human systems and is not tenable in the long term. It is time to reinvent. We are gifted with an array of genius examples in nature – mechanisms and ecosystems that have evolved over 3.8 billion years and provide a blueprint for products, processes, and system organization that can be truly effective toward a healthier, resilient future. We propose that companies mimic nature and reinvent themselves around the fundamental science of Biomimicry's seven Life's Principles... read more >

March 2012	Beyond Lighting Retrofits: Grainger Helps Companies Embrace Sustainability Earlier this week, Grainger, a Fortune 500 international supplier of facilities and building maintenance products, gathered over 15,000 customers and suppliers in Orlando, Florida. Sustainability was a primary theme and significant focal area to customers and suppliers.... read more >

	Jerry Brown on building California's Clean Energy Economy At the close of the 2012 Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, California's Governor Jerry Brown talked with CEO's and industry leaders about his work to build a health, clean energy economy in California. Here are some highlights: read more >

	Bill Gates on the Five Miracles Needed for Energy and Climate Challenges At the 2012 Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Bill Gates talked with several hundred CEO's and corporate leaders about why and how he has accelerated his involvement in clean energy solutions. read more >

	AeroFarms: a Greener Way to Grow Grow Greens and Feed Our Future? The Wall Street Journal sponsored a pitch slam session at its annual ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara. Five entrepreneurs pitched their business models to an audience of several hundred investors and CEOs in a mock funding contest. The NY-based AeroFarms, a sustainable agriculture start-up, was the overwhelming favorite... read more >

febuary 2012	Ikea's Steve Howard on bringing sustainability to the masses A year ago, Steve Howard, founder and CEO of The Climate Group, became the chief sustainability officer (CSO) at Ikea, the privately held $32 billion Swedish home-furnishings giant. As Ikea releases its 2011 sustainability report, Steve talks with Heather King about his decision to move into industry, Ikea's push for certified cotton and timber and how to make sustainable products affordable to millions... read more >

	For the Love of Chocolate: Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Cocoa program As a nod to Valentine's and the associated obsession with chocolate, Rainforest Alliance hosted a webinar on February 13, 2012: "Greening the Cocoa Industry." Eric Servat, Senior Manager of the Rainforest Alliance cocoa program, described current developments in the cocoa industry and the Alliance's efforts to expand sustainable cocoa production... read more >

january 2012	Beyond COP17: 5 Ways Business Can Get Ready for Rio As government officials wrangle final outcomes at COP17, business leaders are already anticipating Rio +20, the 2012 Conference on Sustainable Development.... read more >

	How Coca-Cola Is Working to Cure the World's Water Headaches In its early iteration, Coca-Cola was marketed as a way to cure ailments and inspire social dialogue. "Dr. Pemberton created Coke as a headache tonic," tells Bea Perez, Coca-Cola's new Chief Sustainability Officer. Today, the Coca-Cola Company is trying to address a larger infirmity: the world's water supply.... read more >

	From the COP17 Exhibit Hall: Fashion Design Reinvented Sometimes we must travel to the other side of the world to discover something in our backyard. Such was my case in sighting California's Arts and Craft's Waterworks project here at COP 17.... read more >

	The Fossil Awards: Canada's 'Winning Streak' A parade of university students attracted a small crowd at UN climate talks here in Durban, South Africa, chanting: "Who was bad, Who was worse…?" With pointed humor, they staged a mock ceremony to call out the most egregious behavior observed during negotiations over the future of global climate change.... read more >

december 2011	Week Two in Durban: COP17 Heats Up As COP17 enters week two, there is a palpable shift in atmosphere. Delegates from governments, industry, and NGOs set out last week with clear mission to secure specific gains.... read more >

	5 Highlights from the World Climate Summit From December 3-4, during the weekend intermission of the COP17 negotiations, approximately 600 executives from a broad array of international companies... read more >

	What's the Connection Between the Media & Climate Skeptics? This week, at COP17, an Oxford University-based Reuters Institute research team shed light on the connection between media and climate skeptics... read more >

	Live from Durban: Rethinking Mobility at COP17 A panel of transportation experts at COP17 share a vision for the future mobility. They see tremendous opportunity to advance climate solutions by advancing sustainable transportation... read more >

	Scenes from the Ground in Durban Despite the low decibel interest in COP17 among much of the U.S. media, COP17 is a big deal. "It is the largest and most important event ever held in Africa," proclaims James Nxumalo, Durban's mayor.... read more >

november 2011	4 Reasons Why COP17 Matters The 17th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP), is scheduled to open in Durban, South Africa... read more >

	View from the C-Suite: Steelcase Steelcase Inc. is the world's largest supplier of office furniture. The Grand Rapids, Mich., based company was founded nearly 100 years ago... read more >

	Corporations: The New 'Angels' of Clean Tech? Investors, entrepreneurs, policy and non-profit leaders convened on Wednesday to discuss the clean tech funding environment at the 4th Annual Cooley Clean Energy and Technologies Conference in Redwood City, California...read more >

september 2011	View from the C-Suite: Best Buy Best Buy is a $50.3 billion Fortune 500 consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minn... read more >

	7 Hot Topics from SOCAP 2011 As SOCAP 2011 – a conference focused on "accelerating the flow of capital to social good" – drew to a close last Friday in San Francisco, there was a prevailing sense ... read more >

	Van Jones and the American Dream 2.0 Van Jones may have resigned his post as Obama's green jobs czar, but he continues his crusade for a better America. This afternoon at the SOCAP 2011 conference, he rallied support for the "American Dream 2.0″ and railed on the Tea Party... read more >

	Craig Newmark on Doing Well by Doing Good Craig Newmark is a self-professed nerd, an ingenious, committed philanthropist and a wry savant. He founded craigslist in 1995 as an email distribution list for friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area... read more >

	Habitat for Humanity's Impact on Green Home Market Habitat for Humanity is one of the world's leading builders; in 2010, they built and sold over 38,000 homes. Build 100 ranked them the sixth largest builder in the U.S... read more >

	Burning Man's Green Complexion A week ago, the renowned Burning Man festival raged in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. More than 50,000 people from all over the world gathered as a community and built a city for a week.... read more >

august 2011	View from the C-Suite: Baxter Baxter International Inc. is a $12.8 billion Fortune 500 healthcare products company headquartered near Chicago, Illinois... read more >

July 2011	View from the C-Suite: DSM Feike Sijbesma, CEO of DSM the dutch chemicals industry giant, on their move out of the chemicals industry... read more >

june 2011	View from the C-Suite: American Water American Water's CEO Jeff Sterba on the tie between energy and water, finding value in wastewater, and the irony of our $21 billion per year bottled water habit... read more >

may 2011	The Water Industry: A Massive Market Bubbles to the Surface At this year's H2O Global Water Summit in Toronto, Canada, two hundred of the world's leading water companies and authorities gathered to assess the latest market developments. The event provided a telling barometer of opportunities and challenges in the water industry.. read more >

april 2011	View from the C-Suite: A First Anniversary Recap First Year ReCap: View from the C-Suite with a profile of David Steiner, CEO of Waste Management. The objective: To capture the perspective of corporate leaders on sustainability in their companies and industries... read more >

march 2011	View from the C-Suite: Campbell's Campbell's incoming and outgoing CEO's Denise Morrison and Doug Conant on how the Millenial generation is more demanding of corporate sustainability practices, their work with UC Davis on sustainable agriculture, their push towards 100% recycling and more... read more >

february 2011	View from the C-Suite: Grainger James Ryan, CEO of Grainger on how the leading industrial supplier is driving efficiency in supply chain operations and shifting its market to "greener" products. read more >

january 2011	View from the C-Suite: Autodesk Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk on how technology is instrumental to building a sustainable future. read more >