Into my inbox every day come press releases about this company putting solar panels on a roof or that one making its fleet more efficient. These incremental steps are laudable but also (1) boring (2) old hat and, most importantly, (3) unlikely to get us the environmental change we need.

The Dairy Research Institute™, an affiliate of the Innovation Center, recently was awarded a $1.1 million grant to support greenhouse gas reduction efforts through the development of a Dairy Farm Stewardship Toolkit. The toolkit will allow dairy producers to evaluate their production techniques and identify potential improvements in management practices.

From businessgreen.com - Ground-breaking study calculates contribution of natural world to the UK economy could be up to £50bn

From The Guardian (UK) - Oliver Balch explores some of the assumptions and shortcomings behind Puma's environmental profit and loss announcement

Collaborating for a More Sustainable Apparel Supply Chain

Since April 2010, Blu Skye has played a key role convening a group of 28 sustainability leaders in the apparel and footwear industry including Nike, H&M, Gap, Levi's, Walmart, Target and Patagonia, together with leading NGOs and the U.S. EPA, to form the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. The goal of the Coalition is to develop an industry-wide index to measure the environmental and social performance of apparel products, and to identify opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration in the apparel supply chain to improve sustainability performance and drive innovation.