February, 2008
J.R. Simplot Tops Portfolio’s List Of Polluters
The March issue of Conde Nast Portfolio highlights the best and worst, according to Portfolio, companies on environmental records:
Some of the best:
Bank of America
Ceres
Dupont
General Electric
Innovest
Organic Valley
Starbucks
Tesla Motors
Whole Foods
Wal-Mart
City of Austin, Texas
More on ...
Tate & Lyle Promotes Fairtrade Commitment
Here's a look at an ad for Tate & Lyle's taste and smile initiative, which promotes the company's sugar trade commitment to FairTrade.
The company recently announced that it is moving its entire retail ...
Westar Releases Energy Plan
US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations
The U.S. is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to James Connaughton and Daniel Price, environmental and economics advisers to President Bush, BBC reports. The ...
Weather Channel Details Earth Day Campaign
Winemakers Ship By Sail
French vineyard owners are starting to export their wine by sailing boat to reduce their carbon footprint the Guardian reports.
Later this month 60,000 bottles from Languedoc will be shipped to Ireland ...
Virgin Flies On Biofuel
Virgin Atlantic has flown one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets on biofuel from London Heathrow to Amsterdam. The aircraft flew using a biofuel composed of babassu oil and coconut oil, both ...
Sustainability Not Major Topic In Energy Industry Boardrooms
More than two-thirds of 81 energy industry executives surveyed by KPMG LLP said they regarded sustainability as an important element of their businesses, AP reports. Yet less than one-fifth of respondents ...
Coke To Launch ‘Sustainable Well-Being’ Campaign
Coca-Cola will spend an estimated $10 million on a major sustainability ad campaign, AdAge reports. The theme isn't just the environment, but "sustainable well-being," which Coke says encompasses a mental, physical, ...
Kettle Chips Sustainability Initiatives
News PKG for Oregon News on Kettle Chips and Sustainable Businesses
You can see more on Kettle Chips sustainability efforts here.
Green Movement Influencing Kitchen Products
In the Home Design Trends Survey for the fourth quarter of 2007, residential architects report that the number and size of kitchens are still increasing in popularity, according to the American Institute of Architects.
As ...
Oscars Green Choices Reach Red Carpet
Driving a Prius hybrid has become the standard way for Hollywood stars to flaunt their environmental credentials, but General Motors says more than 75 will get to the red carpet at tonight's Academy Awards in ...
Companies Prepare To Roll Out Green Mobile Networks
Cellular base stations in far-off places located beyond the reach of reliable - or any - electricity almost always get their power from diesel generators. But after experimenting for years with base ...
GM’s Bob Lutz: Global Warming Is A ‘Crock Of Shit’
During a closed-door session with reporters in January, Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman, said that global warming is a “total crock of shit," dmagazine.com reports (via BusinessGreen). Then ...
Auto Industry Spent $62 Million On Lobbying In 2007
Major U.S. automakers and industry trade associations spent $62.6 million on lobbying in 2007, compared with $50.3 million in 2006, according to a Free Press analysis of federal disclosure forms. The ...
Orange Dumps Edelman, Wants To Push CSR Efforts
In the hope of pumping up its CSR efforts, UK mobile phone company Orange has dumped Edelman and brought in CSR specialists Planet 2050 and Good Business, PRWeek reports.
Edelman arm ...
Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future
Duke Energy is the nation's third-largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide - after American Electric Power and Southern Co. Depending on what controls Congress passes on carbon emissions, that's a potentially crippling ...
ESS Releases New Sustainability Software
ecoEnvelopes Reusable Envelope Gets USPS Approval
The US Postal Service has approved ecoEnvelopes' line of reusable envelopes, certifying that the design meets the qualifications for use in the US mail.
More than 80 billion reply envelopes are sent ...
Sony To ‘Address Consumers Directly’ About Environment
Tesco Tackles Food Waste with Ethylene-Absorbing Strips
