Frito-Lay has a factory in Casa Grande, Arizona where more than 500,000 pounds of potatoes arrive everyday and are washed, sliced, fried, seasoned and seperated into bags of Lay’s and Ruffles chips. The process takes up a lot of energy and creates vast amounts of wastewater, starch and potato peelings. So, Frito-Lay with the backing of it's parent company PepsiCo have come up with a new cocept - Net Zero which will attempt to take Casa Grande plant off the power grid by running it almost entirely on renewable fuels and recycled water.

Cirque du Soleil has adopted a mission to be "an agent of change" says Sebastian Gautier, environmental advisor to Cirque. So far, Cirque's attempts at being green are seen as creative and well thought out. Cirque's touring production of Kooza is considering scrap costumer materials dyed in vibrant colors, sustainably transporting props, lighting and stage equipment around the world and finding a way to reuse a spent blue-and-yellow circus tent. How will they do this? Currently, scrap costume materials are placed in glass holiday ornaments and sell for $29 and the tent - all 66 foot high and 167 feet across has been sliced and diced to form messenger bags that sell for $139.

A year ago, S.C. Johnson implemented a pilot program that optimizes their fleet efficiency by taking a close look at every truckload that leaves its facilities. The program titled the "Truckload Utilization Project" is a comprehensive logistics operation that aims to send out fully loaded trucks in the best configurations possible as a way of maximizing each truck's carrying capacity and shipping route. The result in one year has been a savings of $1.5 million and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 2,000 tons.