Reputation Outlook

How do teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL stack up in their sustainability efforts? Maybe better than you'd expect, but they're still mostly out in left field.

The gaming giant's latest look at its sustainability work highlights its energy-efficiency projects, emissions reductions targets and how it has recovered for reuse more than 100,000 pounds of lightly used soap.

Measuring and communicating the carbon footprint of consumer goods is a resource-intensive effort that may be doomed to fail. But lean manufacturing process, already widely adopted and respected, hint at what might be done with the carbon footprint concept.

Revealing your environmental impacts -- and your plans to address them -- has become table stakes for corporate sustainability. But it's still a big project, and can be a tough sell within the enterprise.

The publication of internal documents -- which may or may not be faked -- from a think-tank that challenges the consensus on climate change reveals a great deal about the toxic debate over climate science and policy.

Revelations about donations from sustainability-minded companies to a conservative think-tank that is driving the climate skepticism debate is causing headaches in boardrooms, and may result in more transparency in corporate support for outside organizations.

The third annual report on how companies are disclosing their impacts on the world's forests ranks global leaders by sector.

A project aimed at making customers' utility data more easily accessible and understandable has already been embraced by a few leading utilities, and developers like Tendril and Opower are working to take it to the next level.

The third annual review from the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project finds that many more big companies are starting to measure and report their forest-related impacts and risks, but Big Oil as an industry falls far short of transparency.

The case of a 100 percent post-consumer recycled content toilet paper illustrates why a shift toward sustainability will have to come from the top down, not the bottom up.