July 18, 2008 - The results are in for this year's "Sustainable Business 20" (SB20) - an annual ranking of the world's top 20 sustainable business stocks.

Now in its seventh year, the SB20 ranks "companies, large and small, that are helping to create an environmentally sustainable society."

New to the list this year, the winners are organized into three categories: Green Building, Renewable Energy, and Corporate Pioneers - companies with conventional products and services that are greening their product lines.

Corporate Pioneers that got the nod this year include:

• IBM, for designing technologies to cut energy use in their own and customers' datacenters by half by 2010 while increasing computer capacity by a factor of ten.
• Netherlands-based postal carrier TNT, for committing to become the first zero-emissions transportation company.
• Chipotle Mexican Grill, for serving more locally sourced produce and 100% free range pork and chicken in all its 730 restaurants.

The 2008 SB20 are:

1. Accsys Technologies
2. Apogee Enterprises
3. Asahi Pretec
4. Canadian Hydro Developers
5. Chipotle Mexican Grill
6. Climate Exchange plc
7. First Solar
8. Google
9. Hewlett-Packard
10. IBM
11. Interface
12. Lindsay Corporation
13. Natura Cosmeticos SA
14. Ormat Technologies
15. Philips Electronics
16. Solar Millennium AG
17. Staples
18. Suzlon Energy
19. TNT N.V.
20. WaterFurnace Renewable Energy

For more information about the SB20, including selection criteria, click here.