Stanford Social Innovation Review

Part academic institution, part activist group, part think tank, ATREE crosses sectors to breed a new species of conservation agency in India.

The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.

For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world’s largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here’s how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.

TerraCycle turns what others leave behind into fertilizers and fashion.

How an ecotourism company and a native community share power in Peru.

Small-scale efforts won’t solve the global warming crisis.

When scarcity sets in, market forces can lead corporations to adopt green practices.

How Sustainable Conservation unites all sectors for the environment.

As the wall between the nonprofit and corporate worlds crumbles, many social change organizations are asking themselves: Do we stick to our activist guns, or do we cross the divide and work with business? Research suggests that social movements need both kinds of organizations to make the changes they seek.

Clean technology is creating greener pastures for business.

Should water be turned into a commodity that only “haves” can pay for?

Human-caused climate change, sharply declining conventional energy sources, and population growth are threatening the very platform of human life. Yet only 5 percent of U.S. foundation spending goes to the environment, and a paltry 2.9 percent goes to science and technology.

Peter Liu started his working life as an engineer at the oil giant Chevron Corp. The experience turned him into an avid environmentalist. Several years later, it also led him to co-found the New Resource Bank, which calls itself the nation’s first “green” commercial bank. 

You know the world is changing when the largest corporate buy-out in history hinges on an environmental commitment. That’s what happened in February when two top private equity firms enlisted the help of Environmental Defense, a nonprofit that finds practical solutions to environmental problems, to acquire TXU Corp., the largest utility in Texas.

The World Bank’s Global Environment Facility may be undermined by bureaucracy.