Aug. 6, 2008 - Is five years too long to wait for your energy-efficiency upgrades to pay off? Ninety-five percent of U.K. businesses think so, according to a new survey (via BusinessGreen).

Aug. 5, 2008 - A new study blows the lid off a relatively young but fast-growing multimillion dollar industry: assurance for corporate sustainability reports.

Aug. 5, 2008 - With small and medium-size enterprises buying PCs and servers in record numbers, green (read: energy efficient) computing is starting to look a whole lot more attractive within the sector, a new report finds.

Aug. 5, 2008 - Venture capital investment in U.S. cleantech companies bumped 41% in the second quarter of 2008, thanks in large part to multimillion dollar commitments from some of the biggest names in business.

Aug. 4, 2008 - After years of siting factories wherever labor happened to be cheapest, companies are now having to factor the rising costs of transportation into their far-flung supply chain models, New York Times reports.

July 31, 008 - Bank of America isn't just investing in tech services firm Field Diagnostic Services - it's putting the company's energy-management software to the test at bank locations throughout the U.S.

July 31 - 2008 - Companies that succeed in greening their supply chains are going beyond the factory audit, working directly with vendors on boosting environmental performance, according to a new report.

July 31, 2008 - Software giant SAP has unveiled a new tool to help companies more effectively measure, report, and manage their energy use.

July 30, 2008 - Despite overwhelming support for green IT initiatives, more than half of IT managers say the costs of implementation are still too high, according to a new report.

July 30, 2008 - A top executive at General Electric told Congress this week that the best way to beat climate change is to assign a dollar value to carbon emissions, Reuters reports.

July 30, 2008 - Burt's Bees has announced plans to reduce its U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 35% per dollar sales (from a 2006 baseline) by 2011.

July 28, 2008 - Toyota is remodeling a key manufacturing plant in Japan to make way for more of its best-selling hybrid Priuses, Reuters reports (via Nikkan Kogyo).

July 28, 2008 - Telecom equipment vendor VNL has found a commercially viable way to turn rural residents of developing countries into long-standing customers: an energy-efficient, solar-powered mobile phone system that looks likely to blow the telecom market wide open, Solar Daily reports.

July 28, 2008 - British retailer Marks & Spencer says shopper demand for plastic bags has plummeted 80% since it began charging for the bags in early May.