September, 2007
Sony Pictures Entertainment Breaks Ground On Green Campus
The 125,000-square-foot 4th Avenue building will be the new home for Sony Pictures Television, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 90,000-square-foot Culver Building will be Sony Pictures Television ...
Neenah Brands Go Carbon Neutral
Neenah Paper says that six of its brands, Classic Crest, Classic Linen, Classic Laid, Classic Columns, Classic Cotton, and Starwhite brands, are now manufactured carbon neutral.
Neenah says it has reduced its net reductions in ...
Honda Breaks Major Environmental Technology Campaign
Honda has launched a major print, TV, and Internet campaign that touts Honda as the avant-garde of environmental engineering and technical wizardry, MediaPost reports.
The TV spot shows off the Honda Jet, the company's entry ...
Silicon Valley Execs Get Behind Plug-In Hybrids
Green PR Pays Dividends
For companies large and small, going green is now a surefire way to cut through advertising clutter, Slate reports.
Westport Wash & Wax, for example, has installed 18 solar panels at a cost of $21,000 ...
How To Develop A Two-Phase Corporate Water Strategy
Business for Social Responsibility and the Pacific Institute have published a new trends report that focuses on corporate water strategy. At the Crest of a Wave: A Proactive Approach to Corporate Water Strategy(PDF) explains ...
BT Launches Sustainability Practice in US & UK
Make Sure Your Environmental Policy Hits The Mark
Environmental policies reflect the aims of an organization and a plan of how the organization is going to achieve the aims. Unfortunately, many policies are thrown together from pre-existing examples and templates, and are unrealistic ...
NY’s MTA Launches Sustainability Initiative
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is convening an 18-member sustainability commission that will seek to create a plan for reducing the agency's ecological footprint by Earth Day 2008, The Village Voice reports.
The Sustainability ...
Motorsport Facility Installs Grey-Water Geothermal System
Prairie Hills Motorsport Club, located in Lake Village, Indiana and scheduled to open in the spring of 2009, is using a grey water geothermal system from Encore Energy for heating and cooling. Upon ...
Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark Among 9 Companies Testing Carbon Labels In UK
In a move illustrating that big brands in the UK are eager to please environmentally-conscious consumers, nine companies have signed on to use the draft product carbon footprinting standard, currently being developed by ...
Wal-Mart Selling Private Label CFLs
Fleishman-Hillard Launches Sustainability Practice, Will Go Carbon Neutral
PR firm Fleishman-Hillard has launched a Sustainability Communications practice designed to counsel clients on policy and work with them to articulate views and actions on green issues.
In addition to launching the new practice, Fleishman-Hillard ...
U.S. Manufacturers Adopt Lean & Green Practices
Nearly 70 percent of all U.S. manufacturing plants have adopted lean manufacturing as an improvement methodology, according to the 2007 IW/MPI Census of Manufacturers. Lean is more than twice as popular as the next ...
U.S. Telecommuters Save 840 Million Gallons Of Gas Per Year
Using electronics to telecommute saves the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year - the same amount of energy used by roughly 1 million U.S. households every year, according to a ...
Tiremaker Launches Green Social Network
Yokohama Tire Corporation has launched an online green social network, Eco Treadsetters, that offers daily green news and forums, "how to" guides, and interviews with musicians.
"This is a content-rich site that doubles as ...
Dell Launches New Asset Recovery & Recycling Program For Small Businesses
Dell, which recently called out other computer manufacturers on recycling, has launched an online product recovery and recycling service aimed at business customers with fewer than 10 computers which starts at $25 per ...
Green Grid Works With DOE, Reaches Out To Europe
The Green Grid and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy are collaborating to improve energy efficiency by educating IT managers on both the technical implementation of a greener ...
Yahoo, PG&E Give Away CFLs for Lights Out Campaign
San Francisco businesses and residents are being asked to turn out the lights from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20 as part of an energy conservation campaign organized by Lights Out ...
Tully’s Wants To Be Greener Than Starbucks
Seattle-based coffee company Tully's is implementing a handful of environmentally friendly business practices in hopes of pulling customers away from Starbucks, the Seattle Post Intelligencer reports. The company will increase prices to help ...
Maritime Shipping: EL Insights, Issue 36 - May 24, 2012
