Green Rankings 2012: Browse by Industry
A closer look at the opportunities and challenges faced by each of the 20 industry sectors of our ranked companies.
Please choose an industry to explore from the list below. For each of these sectors, we provide an overview of environmental strengths and weaknesses, and highlight a critical environmental challenge. Each page also shows a comprehensive listing of the US companies we ranked from that industry.
Greenest Companies
The Rankings Explained
A Closer Look at the Methodology
As part of a continued effort to improve our transparency, we are providing a deeper dive into scoring.
Methodology Webinar
Back in June, Newsweek and its research partners presented an online workshop about the methodology behind Green Rankings. Re-watch it here.
The Greenest Technology Yet
How green is a smartphone? Andrew Blum looked into the iPhone—and it turns out the news is good.
Fixing Weak Links in the Supply Chain
Companies ignore the magnitude of their supply-chain environmental impacts—and the environmental and financial risks and opportunities that they represent—at their own peril, writes James Salo.
Are Green Rankings a True Guide To Sustainability?
Changes in ranking methodology have led to a shakeup in the results, and have brought welcome transparency and empiricism to a complicated analysis. John Elkington reports.
What Green Rankings Don’t Tell You
Many firms that rank high on environmental lists also lobby for non-green policies, say Aaron Chatterji and Michael Toffel.
Workers Need Sustainability, Too
Even companies with broad and aggressive environmental commitments are neglecting a core component of sustainability: worker health and safety. Heather Lang reports.
‘Just Do It Differently’
The move toward sustainability is upending the old ways of doing business. These days, less really is more, says David J. Vidal.
Green Rankings: Big Movers Since 2011
Several notable companies moved up or down in the rankings since 2011.
Newsweek Green Rankings Benchmarking Service
We are offering a new rating option for companies not eligible for our U.S. and Global 500 lists.
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