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Primo Water Touts Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic

Primo Water Touts Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic
Primo Water's marketing team has put together a promotional video series that is on YouTube. It touts that the bottles are made ...

American Apparel Makes Big Cleaner Cotton Purchase

American Apparel Makes Big Cleaner Cotton Purchase
American Apparel is one of the latest garment manufacturers to extend its sustainable practices by joining forces with ...

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel
CNN has an interesting video on Vertigro. Glen kertz grows algae in bags suspended in a greenhouse. Oil is extracted and turned ...

CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2

CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2
The Clean Development Mechanism has taken some heat lately, but here's some positive press. Projects to reduce carbon ...

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica
Dole says that its operating division in Costa Rica will purchase carbon offsets from the Costa Rican Government's program ...

Carbon Cutting On Bon Appetit’s Menu

Carbon Cutting On Bon Appetit’s Menu
Beginning on Earth Day, national food service contractor Bon Appetit Management Company, which serves 80 million meals a ...

Foster’s Installs Solar Power At 6 California Wineries

Foster’s Installs Solar Power At 6 California Wineries
Foster's Wine Estates plans to install solar energy systems at six of its California wineries, including Beringer Vineyards, Asti ...

Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz

Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz
Some Fortune 500 companies are getting involved in ecosystem services. That is, finding ways to repay nature for the ...

BASF Measures Sustainability Of Food Production

BASF Measures Sustainability Of Food Production
BASF has developed a tool for its customers in the food industry which gives information on the composition ...

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies
The Chemical industry places 9 out of 10 in Covalence's EthicalQuote ranking (PDF), ahead of Oil & Gas. In 2007, ...

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz
At WSJ's ECO:nomics conference, the Rainforest Action Network ambushed Patricia Woertz, chairman, president and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland over ADM's use ...

UK Bans Cotton USA Ad Over Sustainability Claim

UK Bans Cotton USA Ad Over Sustainability Claim
Last week, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned (read ASA Adjudication) a campaign for Cotton USA ...

Will Companies Get Carbon Labels Right?

Will Companies Get Carbon Labels Right?
A BusinessWeek article has tackled the issues surrounding carbon labels. As EL readers know, there's lots of controversy - also hurdles ...

PG&E Gets Energy From Cow Manure

PG&E Gets Energy From Cow Manure
Pacific Gas and Electric and BioEnergy Solutions say that their biogas-to-pipeline injection project in Fresno County has ...

Nestle Releases CSR Report

Nestle Releases CSR Report
At a joint Nestle-UN Global Compact event in New York, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO of Nestle,  presented the ...

Whole Foods To Host Emeril Show On Planet Green

Whole Foods To Host Emeril Show On Planet Green
Whole Foods has landed a big sponsorship deal. When Discovery Communications launches Planet Green in June,  one of ...

J.R. Simplot Tops Portfolio’s List Of Polluters

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 ...

Tate & Lyle Promotes Fairtrade Commitment

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 ...

Kettle Chips Sustainability Initiatives

Kettle Chips Sustainability Initiatives
News PKG for Oregon News on Kettle Chips and Sustainable Businesses You ...

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses
College students are demanding that schools purchase regional produce, AdAge reports. That's forced major food-service companies to look ...

Today's News

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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