June, 2007

HSBC To Spend $90 Million To Reduce Environmental Impact

HSBC To Spend $90 Million To Reduce Environmental ImpactHSBC will spend $90 million over five years on a "Global Environmental Efficiency Program" to reduce the bank’s environmental impact through a series of initiatives, including the introduction of renewable energy technology, water and ...

June 29, 2007

PG&E Customers Can Pay Extra To Offset Emissions

PG&E Customers Can Pay Extra To Offset EmissionsPacific Gas & Electric says its residential and business customers can voluntarily join a ClimateSmart program that will calculate a customer's energy use and set a monthly charge for PG&E projects to fight ...

June 29, 2007

EL Pro Ford Issues Sustainability Report

Ford Issues Sustainability ReportFord Motor Company has released its latest sustainability report. The company reports a reduction in global energy use by 27 percent and water use by more than 25 percent since 2000. The report also includes an estimate ...

June 29, 2007

Dell To Sell Advanced Cooling Systems To Data Centers

Dell To Sell Advanced Cooling Systems To Data CentersDell and Emerson Network Power have struck a deal to sell advanced cooling systems and services to data center owners, CNET reports. The liquid cooling system cuts the cooling power load by about ...

June 29, 2007

JPMorgan Taps William Daley To Head New CSR Office

JPMorgan Taps William Daley To Head New CSR OfficeJPMorgan Chase has named William Daley to head its new Office of Corporate Social Responsibility. Daley also joins the firm's Operating Committee, the company's senior leadership team. As head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Daley ...

June 29, 2007

Systematic Sustainability Requires Coordination Across Biz Units

Systematic Sustainability Requires Coordination Across Biz UnitsShifting to a systematic, sustainable approach to doing business is challenging to put into practice because change within any organization is hard and the opportunities for making gains in sustainable practices require coordination across business ...

June 29, 2007

Switzerland To Tax CO2 Emissions

Switzerland To Tax CO2 EmissionsSwitzerland will introduce a tax - which it likes to refer to as an incentive - on carbon dioxide emissions from January 1, 2008, China Daily reports. The tax will be applied to all imported ...

June 29, 2007

TNT Express Discusses Strategy To Combat Climate Change

TNT Express Discusses Strategy To Combat Climate ChangeSpeaking at the CSR Summit in Dubai, Mike Patrick, Director of CSR, TNT Express said that there is a need for regional corporations to implement and integrate a sustainable and environmental stewardship program into ...

June 29, 2007

Coke, Yahoo Steal Thunder From Live Earth’s Sponsors

Coke, Yahoo Steal Thunder From Live Earth’s SponsorsCoca-Cola, Pepsi, Yahoo, and MSN have the highest awareness of any brands in connection with the upcoming Live Earth concerts, according to new research from Lightspeed Research and the Ethical Reputation Index. That's great for ...

June 28, 2007

Sony ‘Biggest Loser’ In Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics Guide

Sony ‘Biggest Loser’ In Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics GuideApple has moved up Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics as a result of Steve Job's Greener Apple pledge to phase out PVC and other chemicals from their product line. But Nokia is on ...

June 28, 2007

WM To Spend $400 Million On Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facilities

WM To Spend $400 Million On Landfill Gas-To-Energy FacilitiesWaste Management Inc. is rolling out an initiative over the next five years that will create an additional 60 renewable energy facilities in North America, Houston Business Journal reports. WM, according to ...

June 28, 2007

Barclays’ Suppliers Fill Out CSR Questionnaire

Barclays’ Suppliers Fill Out CSR QuestionnaireBarclays has given a new corporate social responsibility questionnaire to 57 of the group's "medium to high-risk" suppliers, Supply Management reports. When Barclays considers appointing a new supplier, 10 percent of the calculation will be ...

June 28, 2007

Ford, Chrysler Join United States Climate Action Partnership

Ford, Chrysler Join United States Climate Action PartnershipFord Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group have joined the United States Climate Action Partnership, AP reports. General Motors joined the organization in May.  At the same time, Cerberus Capital Management, which is in ...

June 28, 2007

EL Pro Vodafone Releases CSR Report

Vodafone Releases CSR ReportVodafone has released its corporate responsibility report. The network carbon dioxide emissions per unit of data transmitted has reduced by 29 percent. Total energy use increased by six percent. Vodafone says it has challenged suppliers to improve ...

June 28, 2007

Fujifilm To Power Manufacturing Facility With Methane

Fujifilm To Power Manufacturing Facility With MethaneFujifilm will begin using methane gas from a South Carolina landfill to power its nearby manufacturing center, CNET reports. By 2008 it plans to power between 32 and 44 percent of its Greenwood, ...

June 28, 2007

Keen Launches Consumer Campaign To Fund Sustainability Ideas

Keen has launched Hybrid.Stand, a consumer campaign that will fund sustainability ideas and initiatives.  Keen says that the contest will be announced in 14 national consumer publications throughout the ...

June 28, 2007

U.S. Firms Slow To Join U.N.’s Global Compact

U.S. Firms Slow To Join U.N.’s Global CompactU.S. firms have been slow to join a U.N. initiative on social and environmental responsibility in business because of perceptions it has no teeth, Reuter's reports (via CSR Wire). Big corporations in the U.S. were ...

June 27, 2007

PSE&G Investing In More Energy Efficient Transformers, Electrical Wires

PSE&G Investing In More Energy Efficient Transformers, Electrical WiresPSE&G says it will use more energy efficient primary and secondary wires for new overhead installations, install more energy efficient transformers atop utility poles when new or replacement units are needed, and expedite the ...

June 27, 2007

Big 4 Labels Make Green Moves

Big 4 Labels Make Green MovesThe biggest brands across the music business are changing their environmental habits, MediaPost reports. Every major label is on board in one way or another in corporate-wide greening efforts, ranging from copying on both sides ...

June 27, 2007

Qantas To Offer Travellers Way To Offset Emissions

Qantas To Offer Travellers Way To Offset EmissionsQantas will offer a way for travellers to pay extra to offset the carbon emissions caused by their flights, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Kella did not provide details but said options on the table included ...

June 27, 2007