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Greenpeace’s successful campaign to get the Mattel to change its packaging has lessons for future plans to target large companies to improve their behavior: Amp up the humor and go viral.

 Yes, Vampires occupy your home and office.  However, these are not the kind from True Blood but rather the kind that suck electricity even when you don’t know it.

By 2050, the world’s population is projected to be more than 9 billion, with roughly 70% of people residing in urban areas. With more people flocking to cities, there is an urgent demand for smarter, more sustainable cities.

A city’s infrastructure is comprised of a number of systems, including transportation (e.g. roads, bridges, public transportation, etc.), sewage, utility (e.g. gas, electricity, water treatment and delivery), and public and private buildings. Urbanization and proliferation of these systems are key to quality of life, but also create a significant toll on the sustainability, energy efficiency and capacity level of a city.

Can you imagine life without coffee? We’d all stumble around like drones for hours every morning, lost without our precious fix. We love coffee for its flavor, its aroma and of course its pick-me-up, but there are at least 20 more compelling reasons to stay stocked up. These tips will give you surprising and unusual uses for fresh coffee beans or grounds that have gone stale, the pounds of used grounds you toss out every week and the dregs at the bottom of your cup.

The New Year brings new resolutions. Cultivating sustainability practices in the workplace is a long-term commitment, whether you're responsible for two employees or 2,000. Here are 12 straight-forward, but easy to implement steps to help define sustainability efforts in your workplace. Go ahead, take ownership (even if you’re not an owner) and help your company be a sustainability leader.