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Kraft Foods to Purchase 30,000 tons of Sustainable Cocoa by 2012

Bolstering its commitment to sustainable cocoa farming, Kraft Foods has launched the first mainstream chocolate products in Europe to carry the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal. ...

November 2, 2009

U.N. Calls for Tougher Emission Cuts

The world can still cap global warming at far lower levels -- 1.5 degrees Celsius versus 2 degrees Celsius -- and the Group of Eight industrialized ...

September 8, 2009

World Cocoa Foundation Pledges To Make Cocoa-Growing Sustainable

The World Cocoa Foundation announced sustainability principles and goals (PDF) to help guide industry efforts and prioritize the foundation's development projects in West Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas. The foundation and its members say ...

January 15, 2009

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million

Hilton Hotels says it has delivered energy savings of over 10 percent last year across more than 80 hotels in Europe as well as cutting water consumption by five percent, BusinessGreen ...

April 20, 2008

Reckitt Benckiser Ads Detail Green Advantages Of Dishwashers

Ads for Reckitt Benckiser's automatic dishwasher detergent brands contend that consumers could save water and energy by using a dishwasher rather than washing dishes by hand, The New York Times reports. A German TV ad says ...

September 5, 2007

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such as Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Fuji Xerox, China Ocean Shipping Group, Tata Steel, L M ...

July 6, 2007

Global Warming Concert Series Planned

A series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned in a bid to put the subject of climate change before a global audience, Financial Times reports. The goal is to get people to take ...

February 8, 2007

Motorola Powers BSTs with Wind, Solar

According to tests by Motorola, a combination of solar cells and wind turbines can generate 1,200 watts in a continual cycle to drive a mid-sized remote GSM Base Station (BTS) and support a microwave backhaul ...

December 12, 2006

Green Star to Build 90 Biodiesel Reactors for De Beers

Green Star Products has signed an agreement with De Beers Fuel Limited of South Africa to build 90 biodiesel reactors. Each of the biodiesel reactors will be capable of producing 10 million gallons ...

November 13, 2006

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