Sept. 29, 2008 - IBM is expanding its new consulting offerings with a new service to help clients create greener products, from development and manufacturing through delivery and use to end-of-life reclamation and recycling.

Last September, Coca-Cola announced plans to build a $60 million recycling plant that turns recovered plastic bottles into new bottles for Coke products. But as Scott Vitters, Coke's director of sustainable packaging, explains, that kind of bottle-to-bottle approach isn't always possible. So Coke has found a surprising new use for all that plastic - it's making t-shirts out of it. (To listen to our conversation with Scott, click here.)

July 2, 2008 - Tougher standards and stricter accounting have exposed an even greater green divide among electronics manufacturers, according to Greenpeace's latest report on environmental performance in the sector.

May 12, 2008 - Releases of mercury from products including thermometers and incandescent lightbulbs have plunged in the U.S. thanks to phaseouts of the toxic metal and improvements in incineration techniques, according to a new EPA study.