Archive for May, 2009

Home Depot Faces Shareholder Wrath Over Energy Efficiency

Home Depot Faces Shareholder Wrath Over Energy Efficiency

Just a day after Chevron bowed to shareholder demands to track its carbon footprint, Home Depot now faces a shareholder vote on its energy plan ...

May 27, 2009

Companies Boost Recycling Efforts Despite Slow Economy

Companies Boost Recycling Efforts Despite Slow Economy

Organizations are increasingly putting more effort into their recycling programs for all types of materials such as aluminum cans, fluorescent lamps, wood waste and scrap metal. Along ...

May 27, 2009

Asia/Pacific Energy Use To Double North America’s by 2030

Asia/Pacific Energy Use To Double North America’s by 2030

The United Nations estimates that world population will grow past nine billion persons by 2050, or more than 2.3 billion more than now. With the Asia/Pacific region accounting for much of the growth in human population ...

May 27, 2009

Bayer To Invest $1.4B in Climate Research

Bayer To Invest $1.4B in Climate Research

From 2008 to 2010, the Bayer conglomerate plans to spend $1.4 billion on research and development of projects and technologies related to the climate. Additionally, Bayer aims ...

May 27, 2009

Watch Makers Design for the Environment

Watch Makers Design for the Environment

Prestige watch manufacturers are increasingly boosting their green credentials by building eco-conscious factories and sponsoring environmental initiatives, reports the NY Times. Although the Swiss government helps mitigate ...

May 27, 2009

HSBC Meets Targets for Emissions, Waste and Energy

HSBC Meets Targets for Emissions, Waste and Energy

HSBC Holding plc, one of the world's largest banking and financial services companies, says it has achieved several of its environmental performance goals in 2008 including reduction ...

May 27, 2009

GE Ecomagination Revenue Grows 21% to $17B

GE Ecomagination Revenue Grows 21% to $17B

In its most recent CSR report, GE shows that it has reduced its operational greenhouse gas intensity 41 percent since 2004, to the point where ...

May 27, 2009

Chrysler, Ford Seek Green Advances in Vehicles

Chrysler, Ford Seek Green Advances in Vehicles

Chrysler, which has operated from bankruptcy since April 30, is seeking another lifeline from the government, as it submits a $448 million plan to accelerate development ...

May 27, 2009

International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Launched

International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Launched

Joining other signatories from G8 nations, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu has signed on to the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency. The goal of the ...

May 27, 2009

Chevron First Big Oil Firm to Track Carbon Content

Chevron First Big Oil Firm to Track Carbon Content

The Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell, N.J., a faith-based institutional investor and member of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), has withdrawn its greenhouse ...

May 27, 2009

Ray Anderson Discusses Sustainable Business at TED 2009

Ray Anderson Discusses Sustainable Business at TED 2009

Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, discusses his vision ...

May 26, 2009

Solar Energy Can Power 25% of the World’s Electricity Needs by 2050

Solar Energy Can Power 25% of the World’s Electricity Needs by 2050

Concentrated solar power (CSP), using hundreds of mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays, could meet up to 7 percent of the world's power needs by 2030 and ...

May 26, 2009

Exxon Mobil Reduces GHG Emissions by 10M Metric Tons

Exxon Mobil Reduces GHG Emissions by 10M Metric Tons

Exxon Mobil Corporation provides details on its environmental, economic and social performance improvements in its newly released 2008 Corporate Citizenship ...

May 26, 2009

Japan Can Cut Emissions 15% by 2020

Japan Can Cut Emissions 15% by 2020

Japan's environment minister said in an interview with the Asahi daily that cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 15 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels was possible, and ...

May 26, 2009

Global Smart Grid Standards Sought

Global Smart Grid Standards Sought

While the United States recently laid out plans to standardize domestic smart grid developments, an international group similarly hopes for common technical standards to foster ...

May 26, 2009

Forster Tops UK’s 60 Best Green Companies Ranking

Forster Tops UK’s 60 Best Green Companies Ranking

Times Online releases its second annual list of the best green companies in the UK. This year, the Green List has been expanded from 50 to ...

May 26, 2009

Toronto to get Mega-green Office Complex

Toronto to get Mega-green Office Complex

The sprawling former headquarters of Sears Canada is about to undergo one of the biggest green building retrofits on record in North America. The government of Ontario, ...

May 26, 2009

Five Strategies for Building Your Ethical Brand

Five Strategies for Building Your Ethical Brand

There’s been a lot of discussion about elevating corporate responsibility to become a strategic driver of your business. Most companies would like to benefit from their ...

May 26, 2009

Bedmakers Mull Definition of ‘Green’

Bedmakers Mull Definition of ‘Green’

Representatives of Sealy, Simmons, Serta, Tempurpedic, Foamex, Hickory Springs, Cargill, Natura World, OMI and Anatomic Global have identified the need to forge a common definition about what constitutes the environmental benefits ...

May 26, 2009

Secret Meetings, Industry Demands Preface Copenhagen Talks

Secret Meetings, Industry Demands Preface Copenhagen Talks

As nations gear up for the next round of global climate talks -- December in Copenhagen, Denmark -- industry groups are making their demands known, quite ...

May 26, 2009

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