December, 2007

McDonald’s Green Initiatives Different For Individual Markets

McDonald’s Green Initiatives Different For Individual MarketsMcDonald's has discovered that with 31,000-plus restaurants in in 118 countries, coming up with one environmental blueprint for all of its restaurants is impossible, Reuters reports. Instead, the company is trying out a number ...

December 23, 2007

EL Pro PepsiCo Releases CSR Report

PepsiCo Releases CSR ReportPepsiCo has released its Performance with Purpose Corporate Sustainability Report for 2006-2007. Here are some of the numbers: Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) reduced its fuel, electricity and water consumption by 4%, 1.6% and 6% respectively ...

December 21, 2007

XBRL Could Push Sustainability Reporting Into The Realm Of The CFO

XBRL Could Push Sustainability Reporting Into The Realm Of The CFOThe Global Reporting Initiative's creation of an extensible business reporting language taxonomy for the many indicators itemized in its sustainability framework, could automate sustainability reporting in much the same way that the SEC believes ...

December 21, 2007

HGTV Lines Up Sponsors For Green Home Giveaway

HGTV Lines Up Sponsors For Green Home GiveawayShaw Industries, Sears, General Motors, SCJ, Kohler, Caesarstone and Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation have signed on as sponsors for HGTV's Green Home Giveaway. The show will highlight their products. HGTV is building the "green" home ...

December 21, 2007

Hitachi Releases Green Goals, Establishes ‘Chief Env. Strategy Officer’ Post

Hitachi Releases Green Goals, Establishes ‘Chief Env. Strategy Officer’ PostThe Hitachi Group has drafted a long-term plan called Environmental Vision 2025 with the goal of cutting CO2 emissions associated with its products by 100 million tons in fiscal 2025. To meet its targets, the ...

December 21, 2007

Toyota Faces Hybrid Challengers

Toyota Faces Hybrid ChallengersHonda chief Takeo Fukui says the company will battle Toyota for eco-supremacy in the years ahead, Business Week reports. That's not an easy task, the Prius alone accounted for 50 percent of all hybrid ...

December 21, 2007

States Line Up To Sue EPA Over Emissions Waiver Rejection

States Line Up To Sue EPA Over Emissions Waiver RejectionYesterday, the EPA ruled on California’s waiver request by handing automakers a victory and denying California the right to set its own tougher-than-federal vehicle emission standards. At the time, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed to ...

December 20, 2007

Green IT Leaders Give 2008 Predictions

Green IT Leaders Give 2008 PredictionsInfoWorld has put together a list of predictions from some IT experts who've been immersed in sustainable tech this past year and have a keen eye on the future. Here are just a few of ...

December 20, 2007

40 Million ‘Green Boomers’ In U.S.

40 Million ‘Green Boomers’ In U.S.Forty million boomers use their purchasing power to buy environmentally safe brands, according to a survey from AARP Services and Focalyst. This large, green boomer segment is often more demanding of quality in the ...

December 20, 2007

Green Design Meets Prefab Homes

Green Design Meets Prefab HomesMichelle Kaufmann talks up sustainable design for the Dwell Design Leaders Series.

December 20, 2007

EL Pro IBM Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

IBM Releases Corporate Responsibility ReportIBM issued its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report titled "Global Citizenship," presenting results of the company's environmental programs. Some 2006 numbers: IBM’s procurement of renewable energy and renewable energy certificates increased from 11M kWh in 2001 to 368M ...

December 20, 2007

Whole Foods Plans Nationwide Plastic Bag Ban

Whole Foods Plans Nationwide Plastic Bag BanWhole Foods Market is no longer offering plastic grocery bags at the checkouts in its two stores in Austin, Texas. The company says that the move in Austin, where the supermarket is headquartered,  is ...

December 20, 2007

First Look Studios Pushes Green Packaging, Launches Tree Planting Program

First Look Studios Pushes Green Packaging, Launches Tree Planting ProgramFirst Look Studios is collaborating with Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, on a tree planting program that will offset the emissions generated from the manufacture of one million DVD packages. The studio ...

December 20, 2007

EPA Rejects California Emission’s Waiver Request, Legal Battle Ahead

EPA Rejects California Emission’s Waiver Request, Legal Battle AheadAfter a wait of two years, the EPA has ruled on California's waiver request by handing automakers a victory and denying California the right to set its own tougher-than-federal vehicle emission standards. Governor Schwarzenegger has ...

December 19, 2007

Waste Management Signs Green Sponsorship Deal With NFL’s Rams

Waste Management Signs Green Sponsorship Deal With NFL’s RamsIn a thee-year, low-seven-figure deal, Waste Management has signed on as the founding sponsor of the St. Louis Rams' new 4R environmental platform, St. Louis Business Journal reports. Other than the green marketing platform, Waste ...

December 19, 2007

Cisco To Implement Department-Level Carbon Quotas

Cisco To Implement Department-Level Carbon QuotasCisco plans to launch a new program that will give each department within its business a carbon quota, BusinessGreen reports. The company will pilot the program early next year with a company-wide roll out ...

December 19, 2007

BSR Guide Looks At Market-Based Mechanisms Related To The Environment

BSR Guide Looks At Market-Based Mechanisms Related To The EnvironmentBusiness for Social Responsibility has published "The New Markets for Environmental Services: A Corporate Manager's Resource Guide to Trading in Air, Climate, Water and Biodiversity Assets” (PDF). The guide is meant to be an ...

December 19, 2007

Presentation On Greening Corporate Fleets

Presentation On Greening Corporate FleetsNigel Underdown, speaking on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust, at the 2007 Fleet News' Hit for Six Conference.

December 19, 2007

48% Of Consumers Think Direct Mail Accounts For Half Of Municipal Waste

48% Of Consumers Think Direct Mail Accounts For Half Of Municipal WasteU.S. Consumers think that direct mail does more harm to the environment than is actually the case, according to research from DMNews and Pitney Bowes. The survey (PDF) found that negative perceptions of mail’s environmental ...

December 19, 2007

San Francisco Launches Carbon Offset Program

San Francisco Launches Carbon Offset ProgramRather than funding replanting tree farms in other hemispheres or investing in alternative power systems on the other side of the planet, San Francisco has created the San Francisco Carbon Fund, a first-ever city-based carbon ...

December 19, 2007