Archive for February, 2008
Stonyfield’s Hirshberg On Corporate Sustainability
Stonyfield Farm's chief Gary Hirshberg spoke last week at Google headquarters about Stonyfield's sustainability efforts and about his book, Stirring it Up. He also used companies including Stonyfield Farm, Patagonia, Newman's Own, and ...
Grant Thornton: CSR Matter Of Business Survival
Privately held businesses are adopting corporate social responsibility policies not just to save the planet but because they are having to in order to survive and prosper, according to the latest Grant Thornton International ...
Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?
Why face-to-face may work better than TV ads In the rush for corporations to catch up with consumer interest in all things green, sometimes marketers forget an important piece of the messaging mix: dialogue. Don't get ...
Marks & Spencer To Charge For Plastic Bags
Marks & Spencer is rolling out a 5p charge for plastic bags in its UK stores from the beginning of May to encourage customers to reduce the number of bags ...
NYC ‘Black Cars’ Go Green
NYC's Taxi and Limousine Commission will require the city's 10,000 black car fleet - the luxury cars that service corporate clients - to increase fuel efficiency standards to a level currently ...
MS&L Tops List Of CSR PR Firms
CRO Magazine has released its list of Top 10 corporate responsibility PR firms (PDF). Manning Selvage & Lee Ketchum Edelman Porter Novelli Ruder Finn Burson-Marsteller DDB BIG Golin Harris Cone National PR Read ...
IBM Says Z10 Cuts Energy Costs
IBM has unveiled a new mainframe computer, system Z10, which the company says boasts a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor, AP reports....
BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans
In his first strategy presentation as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward said the company has received little, if any, uplift from its investments in wind and solar power and fuels made from crops, ...
5 Energy Efficiency Tips From Michael Dell
Here are five tips from a CIO interview with Michael Dell about energy efficiency: CEOs must be engaged in developing strategies. A top-down energy efficiency strategy works better than a bottom- or ...
Sustainable Seafood Gains Traction
Companies are beginning to warm up to the idea of sustainable seafood, Mediapost reports. Whole Foods is capitalizing on the buzz, with an announcement this week of the first certified-sustainable ...
Environmental Concerns Give Garbage Disposals New Life In Europe
InSinkErator, a unit of Emerson Electric, had virtually no sales in Europe in the early 1990s, where garbage disposals are often seen as a convenience that wastes water and clogs pipes ...
Alleged Clean Water Act Violations Cost Home Depot
Home Depot has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty and implement a nationwide compliance program to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. The settlement resolves alleged violations that ...
Green-e Climate Certifying Carbon Offsets
The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation's first independent certification for carbon offset products. The company has certified products offered by retailers ...
PG&E Restores Forests To Offset Emissions
Pacific Gas and Electric is spending about $2 million to help restore two California redwood forests as part of a ratepayer-funded program to offset the utility's greenhouse gas emissions, The Mercury News ...
ALTOP-Verlag CEO Discusses CSR
Fritz Lietsch, CEO of German publishing firm ALTOP-Verlag, which publishes magazines like FORUM Nachhaltig Wirtschaften, the leading german CSR magazine, and ECO World, a LOHAS shopping Guide, discusses CSR....
Carbon Market Could Jump 56% To $92 Billion In 2008
The global carbon market will see 4.2 billion tons carbon emissions transacted during 2008, up 56 percent from last year, according to research from Point Carbon. At today's prices, that would make the ...
ClimateCheck Sets Up Shop In U.S.
Canada-based ClimateCHECK, a company that provides greenhouse gas management and products has opened a San Francisco office. ClimateCHECK says it has worked with a number of North America companies and organizations to measure, verify and ...
Aravo, WSP Partner On Environmental Products
Aravo and WSP Environment & Energy are partnering to target corporate sustainability and environmental compliance users with new software and services products.The first offering under the Aravo/WSP partnership is ...
Google, News Corp., Patagonia, Others Form Calif. Green Power Group
Fourteen California companies have formed a California affiliate network of The Green Power Group which will share best practices for purchasing and developing renewable energy. The big names involved include Advanced Micro ...
UTC Releases 2007 CSR Report, GHG Emissions Down 5%
United Technologies Corp. has released its 2007 corporate social responsibility report (PDF). The company's environmental objective is to cut greenhouse gas emissions three percent annually and water consumption 2.5 percent annually from 2007 to 2010. ...
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Tom Stacy on National Grid Again Rejects High Costs of Offshore Wind
"Each time government entices big money investment away from riskier, but clearly..."
miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
"Yet another example of the potential of combined heat & power to transform..."
Stevenson on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"All of us should think of ways to save energy now. It is not a myth,..."
Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."
Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."
peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."
Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."