Archive for September, 2007
Philips Wants 30% Of Revenue To Come From Green Products
Philips says that by 2012 it wants 30 percent of total revenues to come from green products, compared with 15 percent of group sales in 2006. This commitment is part of Philips’ latest EcoVision ...
Dell Plans To Go Carbon Neutral By Next Year
Dell says it will become the first PC maker in the industry to make its worldwide operations carbon neutral by next year, Associated Press reports. For every pound of greenhouse gas that goes into ...
ING To Offset U.S. Operations With Wind Power Credits
ING plans to purchase enough wind energy credits to offset its entire U.S. operations. The financial services company announced its intention to become carbon-neutral by the end of the year. The purchase is equal to ...
Office Depot Releases Corporate Citizenship Report, Announces Green Building Plans
Office Depot released its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, "Fulfilling Our Vision - Living Our Values." The Corporate Citizenship Report is a combined version of Office Depot's past Community Relations, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Value Reports. According ...
Energy Pulse: Wallets Drive Many Green Purchase Decisions
Companies that want to sell themselves as “green” and environmentally friendly must address product cost concerns as well as put their own money where their mouth is -? or else face rising skepticism with a ...
JC Penney Opening Pilot Store For Future Green Construction
J. C. Penney is opening a new store in Denver that will pilot a series of sustainability initiatives for new store construction. "We conducted a top-to-bottom review of our store construction process and equipment to ...
TheFind Opens Green Shopping Site
TheFind.com has launched a shopping search website for finding products from eco-friendly retailers and brands. TheFindGreen.com includes products that are organic, developed using ecologically conscious processes, or those offered by retailers who are actively committed ...
Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards
Roche, Consolidated Edison and Scottish ice cream company Mackies were named winners of the inaugural FT/Citi Private Bank environmental awards, Environmental Finance reports. Roche was the winner among large-cap European companies and was also ...
Staples Breaks Ground On LEED Store
Staples is breaking ground on what it says is Miami's first green retail building registered with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program. This will be the first store of its kind for Staples. MK ...
Sun Launches B2B Community For Comparing GHG Emissions
Sun Microsystems has launched OpenEco.org, an online community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas emissions. The cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants. Increasingly, ...
Costco Installing More Solar Power Systems
Costco is expanding its solar power initiative at a number of their Southern California facilities with a combined rated output of 2.4 megawatts. PermaCity is now installing the systems, manufactured by Schott Solar, at ...
UN’s Ban Says ‘Breakthrough’ Needed To Combat Climate Change
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ratcheted up the pressure on the U.S. to help achieve a breakthrough on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, Bloomberg reports. "I have high expectations of all countries, including the United States,'' ...
Volvo Opens Carbon Neutral Vehicle Production Plant
Volvo Trucks has opened its carbon neutral (what the company has labeled 'CO2 Free') plant in Ghent, Belgium. The factory produces 35,000 trucks annually. "Our ambition is to make all our plants CO2-free plants and ...
Apparel Manufacturers Eye Carbon Labels
Because clothing is responsible for approximately one ton of each individual's CO2 emissions (including washing and drying), we're likely to see more companies from the U.S. clothing industry slapping carbon footprint labels on their products, ...
Govts Accelerate HCFC Phaseout
Acting on a U.S. proposal, the world's governments signed up to an accelerated freeze and phase-out of hydrochloroflurocarbons (HCFCs) under the 20-year-old Montreal Protocol, TreeHugger reports. The countries agreed to freeze production of ...
Memorex Launches Tree Planting Campaign For ReNew Product Line
Imation's Memorex has teamed with the Arbor Day Foundation to launch a campaign for its ReNew line of consumer electronics. Each time a product is purchased through Nov. 30, 2007, Memorex will make a ...
Vail Releases Green Details Of ‘Ever Vail’ Development
More details have come out about Vail Resorts' $1 billion Ever Vail development, the largest LEED-certified, multi-use resort development project in the nation. Vail says it's several steps closer to making the 9.5-acre project ...
Wal-Mart To Measure Suppliers’ Energy Use
Wal-Mart will measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain, including the procurement, manufacturing and distribution process. The retailer is initiating a pilot with a group of suppliers to look ...
CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk
Ninety-five percent of companies that consider climate change to present a commercial risk have implemented a GHG reduction program with a specific target and timeline, according to The Carbon Disclosure Project's 5th annual global ...
Media Gives NGOs Easy Ride
NGOs often get an easy ride from the media compared with industry and government, a panel of journalists told an international forum on corporate responsibility and sustainability on Thursday, Canada's The Gazette reports. In the ...
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Jetset1 on Energy-Savings Claims Don’t Add Up for Microsoft’s Windows 7
"This article is wrong. If your PC is less than a few years old,..."
Iain on McD’s in Germany Trades Red for Green In Logo
"Now if only their food was healthy and nutritious."
Phil on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
"After reading all the comments it seems obvious, to me, that the individuals populating..."
Marc Hudson on McD’s in Germany Trades Red for Green In Logo
"where will the stone be mined from- under what labor rights conditions? Will the..."
Clyde on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
"This just shows all the Global Warming freaks out there are a bunch of criminals cut from..."
Car Rental Singapore on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"Energy reduction is a good thing. We need to save the..."
Meme Mine on WWF, WRI Make Last-Minute Pitches on Climate Change
"To the voting public, what the scientists say is irrelevant anymore for if you read..."