Written by Lauren Sigler, Four Green Steps

Sustainable Concordia is an organization yearning to develop a culture of sustainability at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. They want to make sure it’s students are “ecologically aware, economically responsible, and socially equitable”. With a great deal of communication within the campus community, the organization serves as a connection to students to help them “identify, assess, and address challenges” regarding sustainable development encountered by the community at Concordia.

Written by Lauren Sigler, Four Green Steps

Today, more and more businesses want to adopt environmentally friendly practices in attempt to improve their sustainable competitive advantage. By gaining a full in-depth understanding of sustainability, businesses can learn to strive and grow in an effort to achieve continual success.

Written by Melanie Kozlan, Four Green Steps

BP must pay a settlement of $25 million in civil fines for two spills dating back to 2006. Both spills from their pipelines in Alaska were reportedly not effectively maintained.

Written by Zachary Shanan

Greenpeace released a report last week highlighting the green efforts and not-so-green efforts of the world’s top IT companies.

“‘How dirty is your data?’ [PDF] is the first ever report on the energy choices made by IT companies including Akamai, Amazon.com (Amazon Web Services), Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo,” Greenpeace wrote.