Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan is full of aggressive environmental goals, one of which is to halve its environmental impact by 2020. But with more than two-thirds of the company's environmental impacts resulting from consumer use and disposal of products, it's clear Unilever can't achieve these goals alone.

Darden’s overarching sustainability mission is to ensure it conserves and preserves resources for the company and the greater global good. Darden's sustainability efforts are integrated into its operations in a variety of ways, from how the company designs and builds new restaurants; to how it harness the enthusiasm of the people who work in them; to how it sets thermostats and the type of appliances it uses.

The four main Planet focus areas are:

1. Green Buildings:

How would you react if someone took a quarter of all the groceries that you just purchased and tossed them directly into the trashcan?