May, 2009
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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N.J., a faith-based institutional investor and member of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), has withdrawn its greenhouse ...
Ray Anderson Discusses Sustainable Business at TED 2009
Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, discusses his vision ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
