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WELLS FARGO
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If you spend a ton of money shopping, what do your credit card points
earn you? A set of luggage, perhaps, or a new outfit or (after a few
years) a plane ticket. But at Wells Fargo, customers can use their
points to help save the planet. In ...
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PEPSICO
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The sight of a suit-wearing employee riding to work on a bicycle isn't
unusual at Gatorade's Blue Ridge facility in Wytheville, VA: Staffers
who use two-wheeled forms of transportation, and those who drive
hybrids or organize carpools, are rewarded with the best parking spots.
It's all part of this ...
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WHOLE FOODS MARKET
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Consideration for the earth is woven into the fiber of Whole Foods,
which was launched 27 years ago with the simple mission of selling
natural food that comes straight from the land—and leaving the land
better off for it. When there was no organic food network, Whole Foods
created ...
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THE HOME DEPOT
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When Home Depot talks, people listen. As the world's largest home
improvement retailer, its business decisions are closely watched by
industry analysts, architects, designers and construction workers
around the globe. And when this firm makes a commitment to the
environment, its impact is felt by anyone who picks up ...
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WAL-MART STORES
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Under the category of "when pigs fly," file this: environmentalists praising Wal-Mart. It'll never happen, the media said, citing the criticism the company has received from activists. But slowly and surely, this massive retailer has launched one of the biggest environmental campaigns in history—and its ...
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DELL
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When a company's CEO is the one chairing its sustainability committee,
you know it's serious about making a difference. This year, Dell
introduced its brand-new Plant a Tree for Me program, which allows PC
buyers to donate money and have trees planted on their behalf, thus
offsetting their computers' ...
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IBM
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One simple change can make a world of difference when you have the
power of Big Blue behind you. By allowing more than 32,000 employees to
work from home last year, IBM saved eight million gallons of gasoline
and kept 68,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from entering ...
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GENERAL MOTORS
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When General Motors pulled the plug on its electric car a few years
ago, environmental activists were disheartened—but it would be unwise
to count GM out of the green race just yet. The environmental
principles the firm adopted in 1991 have since slashed its greenhouse
gas emissions by 82% ...
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HONDA
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Harvesting rainwater to flush low-flow toilets, using wind and ice to
keep workers cool, operating emergency generators on renewable
biodiesel fuel: It's all in a day's work for Honda's 13 green
factories, all of which meet the highest industry standards for waste
disposal and water and energy use. Measures ...
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TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA
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With more than one million hybrids sold worldwide since 1997, Toyota
has certainly put a dent in global warming. Due to the popularity of
its fuel-efficient, smog-reducing Prius and similar vehicles, there are
7.9 billion fewer pounds of carbon dioxide emissions in the United
States. The car company has ...
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