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Archive for May, 2007

Companies Step Up Efforts To Trim Packaging

Companies Step Up Efforts To Trim Packaging
With Wal-Mart Stores helping to push a repackaging trend along by encouraging its 66,000 suppliers to reduce their packaging starting ...

GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius

GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius
By 2005, GM's top executives were convinced it could get sales moving again by turning around its reputation on ...

U.S. Could Clash With G8 Over Climate Deal

U.S. Could Clash With G8 Over Climate Deal
Germany and some of its partners in the Group of 8 leading industrial economies are bracing for a major ...

Williams-Sonoma, American Girl, Others Add DMA’s Recycling Logo

Williams-Sonoma, American Girl, Others Add DMA’s Recycling Logo
Beginning this summer, member companies of the Direct Marketing Association can add "Recycle Please" logos to their catalogs and direct ...

NBC Universal Gets Large Dose Of Ecomagination

NBC Universal Gets Large Dose Of Ecomagination
NBC Universal has launched “Get On Board,” a program to reduce greenhouse gases and raise awareness. It's all part of ...

Nau’s Success Depends On Getting People Out The Door

Nau’s Success Depends On Getting People Out The Door
Apparel startup Nau launched a new clothing line this spring made entirely of recycled polyester, certified organic fabrics, and biodegradable corn fiber. ...

100 Swiss Re Employees Use ‘CO You2 Reduce and Gain’ Subsidy

100 Swiss Re Employees Use ‘CO You2 Reduce and Gain’ Subsidy
About 100 Swiss Re employees have received payouts under its CO You2 Reduce and Gain program, that was launched at the ...

Exxon Investors Want Boskin Removed Over Climate Issues

Exxon Investors Want Boskin Removed Over Climate Issues
A group of institutional investors, who say the collectively represent about 100 million Exxon shares, want Exxon Mobil director Michael Boskin removed ...

Paramount Installs Largest Privately-Owned, Operating Solar Plant In U.S.

Paramount Installs Largest Privately-Owned, Operating Solar Plant In U.S.
Paramount Farms, a supplier of pistachios and almonds, has opened a 1.1 mega-watt, $7.5 million solar plant in California's San Joaquin ...

FT, Citi Launch Carbon Efficiency Award

FT, Citi Launch Carbon Efficiency Award
The Financial Times and Citi Private Bank have announced the inaugural FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards which will take place in ...

Neenah Paper Joins the Chicago Climate Exchange

Neenah Paper Joins the Chicago Climate Exchange
Neenah Paper has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange. Neenah has committed to a six percent carbon dioxide emissions reduction by ...

Sony Buys Geothermal For Tokyo’s Sony Building

Sony Buys Geothermal For Tokyo’s Sony Building
Sony Corp. has signed an agreement for more than 10 million kWh of geothermal power per year with Japan Natural Energy Co., TechOn ...

Lexus Hybrid Ad Banned For Misleading Environmental Claims

Lexus Hybrid Ad Banned For Misleading Environmental Claims
A Lexus magazine ad campaign for the Lexus RX 400h has been banned by the UK's advertising watchdog, MediaGuardian reports. The ...

Wal-Mart Is Company Most Linked To Blog Sustainability Discussions

Wal-Mart Is Company Most Linked To Blog Sustainability Discussions
Wal-Mart is the corporation most linked with blog posts that mention "sustainability," according to Nielsen BuzzMetrics Sustainability Monitor. Wal-Mart was ...

Wine Industry’s Green Movement Heads To Retail & Distribution

Wine Industry’s Green Movement Heads To Retail & Distribution
JJ Buckley says it has become the first wine retail and distribution company to offset all of the carbon emissions from ...

GE Green Sales Double

GE Green Sales Double
General Electric has doubled sales from environmentally friendly products to $12 billion over the past two years, Financial Times reports. At an ...

P&G’s Small Bottles Could Have Big Impact On Sustainability

P&G’s Small Bottles Could Have Big Impact On Sustainability
Starting in the fall, Procter & Gamble will replace all its $4 billion liquid detergents portfolio in North America, which includes ...

Survey: LEGO, IKEA Have Best Corporate Reputations

Survey: LEGO, IKEA Have Best Corporate Reputations
Denmark’s LEGO is the world’s most respected company according to the Reputation Institute's annual report which surveyed more than 60,000 consumers ...

Decker Releases Interim Results On Two Million Mile B20 Test

Decker Releases Interim Results On Two Million Mile B20 Test
Decker Truck Line is the first major trucking company to compare a soy biodiesel B20 blend to regular diesel in a comprehensive ...

Marsh Forms Renewable Energy Team

Marsh Forms Renewable Energy Team
Marsh Inc., a global risk and insurance service firm, has formed a renewable energy team, North American Windpower reports. ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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