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The GREEN Retail Conference - June 4-5 - Las Vegas

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Nike Plans To Be Carbon Neutral By 2011

Nike released its fiscal 2005 and 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report today. The company says it has exceeded its ...

Wachovia Plans 300 ‘Green’ Branches

Wachovia plans to build only "green" financial centers by the end of next year and plans to build at least 300 ...

HSBC To Donate $100 Million For Climate Research

HSBC has created a five-year, $100 million partnership to fund climate research through The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

Bush Proposes Plan To Reach Global Emissions Goal

President Bush is urging 15 major nations to agree by the end of next year ...

Outdoor Power Equiptment Faces Green Hurdles

Makers of powered outdoor equipment (all-terrain vehicles, snowblowers, etc.) are looking at alternative energy, but the equiptment is not economical ...

EIA Framework Could Pave Way For Recycling Legislation

The Electronic Industries Alliance has released (via TreeHugger) a framework (PDF) that the aliance says paves ...

Burt’s Bees Proposes Industry Definition Of ‘Natural’

Burt's Bees has established its own standard to define natural personal-care products, vowing to follow its own rules ...

PSE&G To Replace 1,300 Vehicles With Hybrids

New Jersey's Public Service Electric and Gas plans to reduce its carbon emissions by more than 81,000 tons ...

Private Industry’s Green Purchasing Impacts Suppliers, Consumers

Companies like Wal-Mart, FedEx, Home Depot and Office Depot are flexing their corporate environmental power, extending their green policies ...

Epson Institutes New Paper Procurement Policy

Epson has launched a new procurement management policy and procurement standards focusing on paper products, including plain and photo ...

ITA Plans Green Manufacturing Day

The International Trade Administration has announced its intentions to organize a "Green Manufacturing Day" to "enhance public-private interaction ...

Rohm and Haas Spends Half Of R&D Budget On Sustainability Efforts

Rohm and Haas Company will spend $150 million - roughly half of its nearly $300 million 2007 R&D ...

Report: Potential Of Energy Savings Certificates In Boosting Energy Efficiency

The Center for Resource Solutions has released a white paper entitled "The Potential for Energy Savings Certificates (ESC) as ...

300 Schools On Green Building Council’s Certification Waiting List

Nearly 300 schools are on a waiting list for certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's school certification ...

Home Depot To Plant 3 Million Trees As Part of $100 Million Pledge

The Home Depot Foundation announced a 10-year, $100 million commitment to support efforts to make communities healthier and ...

Research: LOHAS To Double To $420 Billion By 2010

The $200 billion+ LOHAS industry (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) is on track to jump to $420 billion in just ...

Corporations Prepare for Cap-And-Trade

Congress hasn't come up with a plan for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions, but U.S. companies are wagering billions of dollars ...

HSBC Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

HSBC has released its 2006 corporate responsibility report (PDF). During 2006, HSBC's CO2 emissions per person increased due ...

Air Canada Launches Voluntary Carbon Offset Program

Air Canada is introducing a program that lets consumers make voluntary carbon credit purchases to offset their air travel, CBC reports. The Montreal-based ...

Microsoft Developing Ambassador Program To Promote i’m On Campuses

Microsoft is developing a brand ambassador network on college campuses nationwide to provide grassroots support for Microsoft’s i’m ...

Today's News

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Guest Columns >>

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Dr. Albert Esser
Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure
Dell

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

eCommerce Goes Green

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models

Today's Video >>

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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