ICT businesses continue to dominate Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings of the top 500 US public companies, as they did in 2010* and 2009**. Four of the five top 5 companies are in the ICT sectors: IBM (#1), Hewlett-Packard (#2), Sprint (#3), and Dell (#5). All told, ICT sectors dominated the top 20 with 11 positions.

Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings of the top 500 global companies yields a similar result for ICT, with 10 of the top 20. Only IBM (#2) makes the transition from the US top 5 to the global top 5.

Newsweek's "Media & Publishing" companies don't make the top 20 on either list. McGraw-Hill (#21) and Disney (#23) are best in the US rankings. UK's WWP (#41) and Disney (#68) are best on the global list.

Newsweek published a substantial article about its methodology for those interested in the details.

* 2010: Four of the five top 5 companies are in the 2010 technology sector: Dell (#1), Hewlett-Packard (#2), IBM (#3), and Intel (#5). All told, technology dominated the top 20 with 11 positions; the next best sector was pharmaceuticals with 3. Newsweek had a total of 49 companies in its technology sector.

Newsweek's 2010 Green Rankings of the top 100 global public companies yields a weaker result for technology, with only 7 of the top 20. (Newsweek classifies top 20 performers Sony and Panasonic into its consumer products sector.) The telecom segment of technology is stronger in global top 20 than in the US top 20.

Newsweek groups "Media, Travel, Leisure" companies into another sector. The only US e-media companies in that sector's Top 10 still were McGraw-Hill (#39), Walt Disney (#69), and NewsCorp (#107). This lackluster showing for the e-media sector is consistent with other rankings. Sony (#4) and Walt Disney (#37) were the only e-media companies in the global 100.

Newsweek published a substantial article about its methodology for those interested in the details.

** 2009: Newsweek's 2009 Green Rankings