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Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced the winners of the Readers' Choice Awards for sustainability reporting The winning reports, as ...

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

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel
Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste
In its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report Motorola, Inc. highlights actions the company has taken on social, accountability and ...

Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions

Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions
Russia says it has no plans to cap carbon emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’
Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

GM CEO: 2010 Volt Deadline Will Be ‘Down To The Wire’

GM CEO: 2010 Volt Deadline Will Be ‘Down To The Wire’
General Motors is running "down to the wire" as it readies its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt for a ...

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo
HP is the first company to receive approval from the U.S. EPA to have the agency's SmartWay logo displayed ...

Sony Recycling Pays off

Sony Recycling Pays off
Sony is gathering the plastic shells of old Sony TVs from recycling plants, collecting excess Styrofoam from its production ...

Nike Readies Blueprint For Energy Efficient Factories

Nike Readies Blueprint For Energy Efficient Factories
As part of an energy-efficiency project (PDF) aimed at reducing energy consumption within its footwear contract manufacturing base, Nike says that ...

China Emissions Underestimated, Top US

China Emissions Underestimated, Top US
A report to be published next month in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management by researchers from the ...

Beijing Closes Factories To Cut Pollution For Olympics

Beijing Closes Factories To Cut Pollution For Olympics
Beijing announces new measures for heavy polluters to improve air quality for the Olympics....

Konica Minolta Reaches Zero-Emissions Goal

Konica Minolta Reaches Zero-Emissions Goal
Konica Minolta Group has achieved "Level 2 zero emissions" at all of its 15 production bases in Japan, Tech-On ...

Carbon Tariffs Could Bring Manufacturers Back From Asia

Carbon Tariffs Could Bring Manufacturers Back From Asia
Imposing carbon tariffs on China could drive some manufacturers back to North America, according to a new CIBC Coming ...

Nissan Readies Green Procurement Guidelines

Nissan Readies Green Procurement Guidelines
Nissan will issue new green procurement guidelines, a set of environmental protocol to augment The Nissan-Renault Purchasing Way, in ...

China Diverts Water Resources To Ensure ‘Green’ Games

China Diverts Water Resources To Ensure ‘Green’ Games
Beijing wants to look good when the upcoming summer games put it on the world's stage. To green up Beijing, the city's ...

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 ...

Patagonia Tracks Carbon ‘Footprints’

Patagonia Tracks Carbon ‘Footprints’
In May 2007, as part of the Footprint Chronicles, a group of 10 Patagonia employees were sent to ...

Avery Dennison Puts FSC Logo On Clothing Tags

Avery Dennison Puts FSC Logo On Clothing Tags
Avery Dennison tag and label manufacturing facilities in China and Korea have been given the Forest Stewardship Council ...

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 ...

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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