Randy Peacock was just 15 years old when he began working for the Melaver family in Savannah, Ga. He was a bag boy at the M&M Supermarket at Abercorn Plaza, a shopping center that was, as third generation CEO Martin Melaver calls it, "a real high wire act" — the first shopping center development for the family whose roots were in the grocery store business.

It is time to seize the opportunities of environmental leadership, says WWF's UK chief executive, Robert Napier.

Two Montana hotels using a new comprehensive HVAC system invented by a former energy engineer are among the first lodging facilities to receive the federal Energy Star label.