Sustainability

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today defined its priorities for the next five years, despite growing fears that swinging spending cuts could cripple the department. Defra has been ordered to present three spending scenarios to the Treasury...

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., professor of animal science at Colorado State University, says the recently opened hog holding facility at the Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) Austin (Minn.) Plant is "as good as it gets."

"This facility is at the top...

/PRNewswire/ - The sluggish economy, the Gulf Oil Crisis and even proposed tax law changes have created new challenges for non-profit and civic organizations already struggling for survival. The new, green economy is providing opportunity not just for business but for the ve...

As part of a continuing commitment to become a leader in corporate social responsibility, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (NYSE:DPS) has appointed Tim Gratto to the newly created position of vice president of sustainability.

Gratto will be respon...

CEOs of major companies remain committed to sustainability.

The Cisco 2degrees Sustainable Business Confidence Barometer shows that, despite economic uncertainty, most large organisations expect to increase their investment in s...

Today, Congress completed its vote on final passage of the historic financial reform package that has been debated for more than a year. The Senate voted 60 "“ 39 to reign in a number of the abusive financial practices conducted by both small lenders in strip malls and mega-...

American Business Conferences will be hosting its 4th in the global series of Sustainable Agriculture Summits in San Francisco on 10-11 August. This established forum where incisive and detailed strategies on how to measure and reduce water and carbon impacts throughout the ...

This summer BrownFlynn is partnering with the Institute for Sustainable Development - a nonprofit partnering with academic institutions UNC, Duke University and Elon University and chambers of commerce - to conduct a survey on the importance of stakeholder engagement in deve...

TIAA-CREF, the nation's largest pension system and self-proclaimed leader in corporate social responsibility, has come under fire from a coalition of academics and activists who are questioning TIAA-CREF's commitment on a range of social responsibility issues.

Envido today announced the release of EnSMART v. 1.1 online energy management tool. This release is a major update to Envido's previous energy management system, used to facilitate the collection, reporting and analysis of environmental, utility and energy data.