The last decade has marked a radical change in the business of sustainability, say environmental activists and industrialists alike. On the wane are "greenwashing" campaigns in which corporations promote dubious environmental accomplishments to draw attention away from environmentally damaging practices. On the rise are corporate investments in sustainability programs, new types of environmenta...

Environmental consciousness has become increasingly important in everyday life and business practice. The effort to reduce the impact of business activities on the environment has been labelled as green supply chain management. Any major greening project would require efforts on the part of the entire supply chain. However, very few studies have addressed the issue of coordinating the green sup...

Through reviewing the slides and expertise of previous teams, it is clear that the C2M program would allow us to (1) expand, and verify (or challenge) some of our pre-existing customer discovery done in the green chemistry area and (2) develop a thought-out market plan through combining business expertise from MBA candidates with deep technical insights from PhD students. Synvitrobio is a fairl...

This paper reports on progress of the OECD project on Green Growth and Eco-Innovation, in the area of business model development for radical and systemic eco-innovation. The outcomes from this workshop will be fed into a final report which is expected to be completed by the summer of 2012.

In February 2002, the article "Printing in the Green" marked something of a departure from THE SEYBOLD REPORT'S usual emphasis on publishing business and workflow technology issues. Revisiting this issue four years later, we found that the core issues raised are more relevant than ever. Even so, only a relatively small number of printers have formally embraced the challenges of environmental su...