On the eve of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, two new reports show how tantalizingly able we are to reduce our climate footprint -- and how frustratingly far we are from taking the needed steps to do so.

Ron Jarvis, Home Depot's vice president of Environmental Innovations, sat down with GreenBiz's Joel Makower to discuss the progress made and lessons learned during the first half-year of the retail giant's project to promote eco-friendly products.

Two thousand seven is barely a fortnight old, but it's already shaping up to be the year that climate change action reaches a tipping point. The signs seem to be everywhere, says Joel Makower.

From cars to climate offsets to chemistry, the trends and events that helped shape the year just passed in business and the environment, by GreenBiz founder Joel Makower

"WANTED: One highly motivated, business-savvy, green-minded, entrepreneurial self-starter, looking to have a worldchanging impact on how business gets done. Must be willing to move to northwestern Arkansas."

The most provocative statement of the past half-century on the role of business in society came in an essay in the New York Times, written by a fellow named Friedman. That's Milton, not Thomas.

The dawn of the new school year has brought with it a corps of fresh-faced ideas and initiatives aimed at making colleges and universities cleaner and greener, writes Joel Makower.

"What's your company's climate footprint?" It's a hot question these days -- one being asked increasingly of companies by customers, investors, activists, regulators, and others. Providing an answer will require understanding what, exactly, your company does to contribute greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And therein lies a challenge.

Joel Makower talks with Interface’s Ray Anderson -- ten years after his “spear in the chest.”

Whatever happened to recycled paper? Catalogs, brochures, and Web sites of major paper manufacturers and distributors suggest that environmentally preferable paper remains a hard-to-find, specialty item. But that's not so. Now efforts are under way to push companies toward more recycled-paper buying -- and to pressure those that don’t make the switch.