Hundreds of thousands of Japanese are still suffering. Others are practicing self-restraint and engaging in energy efficiency measures to demonstrate conservation. To understand the devastation, you have to view an interactive picture gallery recently sent to me.

Disney’s 2010 Corporate Citizenship report is a frank discussion of the challenges Disney faces on environmental social, and governance issues. Today’s assessment of this exhaustive report is more on the social and environmental fronts, and reveals the balance Disney has to maintain between running a public company accountable to its shareholders and an organization that works on achieving more for the public good.

AT&T announced last week that it saved US$44 million in energy savings thanks to 4200 energy efficiency projects in 2010. The savings originated in a comprehensive energy management training program, a sophisticated energy usage scorecard for the company’s 500 largest energy-consuming facilities, and participation in the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps program.

The Redditch Council wants to warm its Abbey Stadium sports center, including its swimming pool, heat from its neighboring crematorium. By the transfer of heat from the crematorium’s incinerators to a system that would warm the sports and leisure facility, the town estimates that it could not only conserve energy, but save about UK£14,000 (about US$23,000).

Southwest Airlines is one of American business’ great success stories of the past twenty years.  From its origins as a dinky carrier (whose flight attendants wore fabulously groovy hot pants, by the way) that served a few Texas cities in the 1970s, Southwest is now the largest airline in the US based on domestic passengers [...]

While many clean energy advocates and investors around the world laud German innovation and watch China’s surge in the development of technologies such as solar and wind energy, Korea has continued its commitment to boosting its clean energy sector.

Joining many national and local governments, Massachusetts has embarked on a goal of reducing greenhouse emissions. The plan is ambitious–25% below 1990 levels–and has attracted plenty of attention in the press. Supporters and detractors have had plenty to say about the initiative.

Anyone who has spent time in Seoul would marvel at the city’s outstanding public transportation system. Korea’s capital, teeming with over 10 million people, has a massive subway network that extends from outermost suburbs to the center-now electric buses are part of the mix.