Green Buzz

Hooters, a restaurant chain known more for its waitresses' outfits than environmental efforts, is helping to clean up British Petroleum's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by donating used pantyhose.

The U.K. government could save more than £300M (US$433.6 million) and about 60,000 tonnes of carbon over the next three years by banning 'unnecessary' business flights.

This week I’m fortunate enough to be at the Sustainable Brands conference in Monterey, Calif. This is my second year, and it’s proven once again why it’s my favorite conference of the year.

 U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer has made significant strides on its energy, emissions and waste goals while falling behind on travel emissions, water tracking and organic food sales.

 Marks & Spencer's annual sustainability report gives a detailed update on the 100 commitments that are part of its Plan A program.

The business of green certainly is complicated, and a recent survey listing the brands consumers perceive as the greenest in the land only further illustrates that point.

Implementing a secure destruction program that recycles paper after being shredded helped the Stamford, Conn.-based company improve its recycled waste by 6 percent.

The EPA quietly published this week the formulas for Nalco's Corexit chemical oil disperants, which have been used in unprecedented amounts to try and fight BP's gulf oil spill.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has introduced green meeting guidelines at its North American properties and plans to roll out the practices globally next year.

If you haven't yet tried to tap into the government's massive green appetite, here's a primer on how to get a competitive advantage in the largest marketplace in the world.

Sainsbury's has invested in new technology that will allow the retailer to make real-time supply chain decisions to reduce food waste caused by unexpected weather.

Retailer Marks & Spencer will soon put GreenPrint Technologies' print management software to work at corporate headquarters in London in an effort to reduce use of paper, ink and energy.

 When purchasing equipment and materials, the initial cost trumps any sustainable features or life expectancy for the majority of healthcare professionals surveyed at recent seminars.

Being involved with CSR report review panels for Nike, Shell and SAP shed light on some useful lessons and broad principles for all companies to consider in launching or redefining their own panels.

Industry thought-leaders all have personal to-do lists for what challenges and obstacles are in the way of creating energy efficient data centers. Until we can combine them all into a master list, here are four steps to get us well underway.

After spending three years closely following the campaign to get climate and energy legislation through Congress, author Eric Pooley says: "The missing ingredient here has been presidential leadership."

The U.S. General Services Administration has tapped the sustainability director at Cushman & Wakefield to become the first chief greening officer for the agency and lead efforts to make government buildings greener.

Later this year, Ford will begin selling 6.8-liter F-450 and F-550 Super Duty chassis cabs that are conversion-ready for compressed natural gas (CNG) and propane (LPG).

 Dr Pepper Snapple Group released its first corporate social responsibility report since becoming a public company in 2008, setting energy, carbon dioxide, water, recycling and packaging goals.

I know that talking about infrastructure isn’t a sexy blog topic. But we have to do it. According to a recent report, there is no greater infrastructure challenge facing the country today than water.