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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. ...