For Boisset Family Estates, wine is part of a long tradition, but one that is not always in tune with what's best for the environment. Jean Charles Boisset explains some of the innovations the company has developed for its packaging and marketing, and how they highlight the potential for -- and the challenges of -- changing a business as tradition-based as winemaking.

With its Considered design ethos, Nike is increasingly developing and reimagining shoes in innovative ways to reduce waste and chemical use, all while maintaining the brand's high performance standards. Lorrie Vogel, the General Manager for Nike's Considered products, explains what makes a product Considered, and how the company has turned trash into treasure.

As IT needs take up an ever-bigger part of companies' energy bills and purchasing budget, the costs of maintaining computers based on their performance per dollar are growing exponentially. Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute spoke with GreenBiz Radio about the surprisingly easy ways to drop IT costs while improving performance.

From the use of solar panels, daylighting and other green building techniques to a high-density, high-efficiency computing infrastructure, the company is putting its green IT expertise to work on the 35,000 square foot facility. When Emerson Network Power's new global data center opens next summer, its owners plan to have it showcase the latest innovations both inside and out. The 35,000 square foot facility, which is being designed by Fox Architects, is aimed at earning LEED Silver-level certification for its green building techniques, and will use 17 percent less energy than a traditional data center of the same size. Once its doors have opened, Emerson plans to use the facility to consolidate its 100 currently existing data centers around the globe into just four. The company is responding to challenges facing the entire IT industry: as demand for networking, storage and computing capacity skyrocket, companies within and outside of traditionally IT-intensive fields are realizing that tech demands are leading to skyrocketing electricity bills, and that those same demands outstrip the energy supply available to them. "We hope this showcase data center will help other companies meet this challenge," said Victor Lee, Emerson's CTO. "Operating efficient data centers is in the best interest of the companies that own them, as well as everyone who shares our planet." Among the green features of the building is a 100-kilowatt solar power array on the facility's roof, enough to meet 14 percent of the data center's initial power needs. Fox Architects also designed the building with special daylighting features to further cut down on electricity needs.

According to research firms and reports from OEMs, the country -- long a market for IT of all types -- has begun addressing excessive energy use and its environmental footprint

Dell, HP, IBM, Intechra and Redemtech yesterday became the first companies to receive the G.R.A.D.E. certification from IDC, evaluating their performance in handling 34 key areas of IT asset disposal.

Mike McKeever, the executive director of the Sacramento Council of Governments, talks to GreenBiz Radio about implementing the area's widely praised smart growth strategy and how smart growth is changing how businesses plan their own growth.

Peter White, the head of sustainability at Procter & Gamble, speaks to GreenBiz Radio about how the company is using product design and marketing to reduce energy and water use across its products' life cycles, and how the company couples its environmental goals with social responsibility goals.

Terry Cullum, General Motors' director of corporate responsibility, talks to GreenBiz Radio about how the company addresses sustainability in ways above and beyond their vehicles, as well as how the company is looking to shift strategy and production to meet the rapidly changing demand for small cars in the U.S.