As 2010 draws to a close, GreenBiz asked executives from a range of companies — all of whom have been featured in the news this year — to tell us about their most exciting green prospects, the challenges and the changes they anticipate for 2011, and what they think 2011 will look like from the perspective [...]

In the last month, we’ve featured a number of stories dealing with green jobs — one wondering why there aren’t more green jobs, one highlighting a shortage of GHG management professionals, and one showing how workers are seeking green job trainings to improve their chances at landing a good job. An article published last week [...]

Apple is, to put it mildly, on a roll. The company has been a non-stop powerhouse for most of this century, starting the world-changing iPod, the resuscitation of its desktop and laptop computers, and culminating with the iPad. That growth has of course had a huge environmental impact, not just in terms of a surge [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The rise of supply chain measuring and management is causing some wrinkles when it comes to electronics companies. China serves as “the world’s factory,” especially for electronics manufacturers, but it is difficult to know exactly how well — or how poorly — suppliers are performing on environmental issues in that country. [...]

Website: Download the report here This report from BSR looks at the Chinese supply chains of 10 electronics manufacturers and offers tips for companies that want to get a grasp on how their suppliers are impacting the environment overseas. The report, Electronics Supply Networks and Water Pollution in China, looks at the results of a [...]

Very few topics generate more buzz these days than news about social networks. Just how big is Facebook, and what, exactly are our kids doing on it every day? How will Apple create a network around music, and what’s Google doing about it? It’s easy to forget that the world’s largest business — energy — [...]

ROUND ROCK, TX — Dell has achieved its goal of reducing its desktop and laptop computers’ energy consumption by 25 percent by using a variety of energy efficient parts. Two years ago, Dell announced its plan to reduce the energy its computers use by a quarter, and some products have even exceeded that mark. For [...]

My industry-analyst duties have taken me to a number of industry and tech-vendor events this fall; in fact, looking back at my calendar I have been out of my home area in Boston for 9 of the last 12 weeks. The upside of all that time in airplane seats is that I get to meet [...]

PALO ALTO, CA — When it comes to buying a game console, energy efficiency is certain to be about at the bottom of a shopper’s list of priorities. But a new study from the Electric Power Research Institute shows that there is a difference — and sometimes a huge difference — in the amount of [...]

We’ve all see those “Please consider the environment before printing this message” notes at the bottom of our emails — and I for one am kind of baffled by people who do regularly print emails, although it must still happen. But late last month, the World Wildlife Foundation unveiled a project that takes the passive [...]