Roger McClendon, Chief Sustainability Officer of Yum! brands, recently spoke at a meeting of our firm’s Sustainability & Emerging Technologies group. McClendon,who reports directly to the company’s Chairman and CEO, described Yum!’s goal to “become The Defining Global Company that Feeds the World.” The company’s food business includes well-known brands KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. … Continue Reading
Kentucky scientists are investigating methods to make algal and plant-based biofuels sustainable alternatives to traditional petroleum-based fuels and chemical feedstock. Engineering and biological/genetic processes are central elements of these efforts. Rodney Andrews of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research is working with an electric utililty to install algal photobioreactors at a coal-fired … Continue Reading
California’s size, diversity of environments, population distribution, and history of water management issues make it a microcosm of what works, and what doesn’t work, in managing water resources. The Public Policy Institute of California recently released its exhaustive review, Managing California’s Water From Conflict to Reconciliation. The almost 500-page book details the history of California’s … Continue Reading
In Sustainability: The ‘Embracers’ Seize Advantage, a report issued by the MIT Sloan Management Review, 68% of the companies surveyed said they intended to increase their commitment of investment and management on sustainability in the coming year. The level of commitment to sustainability is up from 25% reported in 2009 and 59% in 2010. The most common … Continue Reading
