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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 ...

China’s Solar Industry Feels The Heat

China’s Solar Industry Feels The Heat
Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co. in China's Henan Province is a green energy company that produces polysilicon for solar panels. ...

DHL Program Lets Customers Offset Shipping Emissions

DHL Program Lets Customers Offset Shipping Emissions
DHL has launched a carbon neutral shipping service, DHL GoGreen Express, in the Asia Pacific region. DHL says the program ...

Sony To ‘Address Consumers Directly’ About Environment

Sony To ‘Address Consumers Directly’ About Environment
Sony says it will address consumers directly across various channels to enhance the communication of meaningful environmental information, vnunet.com ...

Hitachi’s CTO Hu Yoshida On Green Storage

Hitachi’s CTO Hu Yoshida On Green Storage
With storage hardware poised to overtake servers as the power hogs of the data center, Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida discusses ...

Chinese Polluters Relocate To Avoid Environmental Scrutiny

Chinese Polluters Relocate To Avoid Environmental Scrutiny
Chinese factories are moving inland from coastal regions to provinces such as Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangxi in order to escape tighter ...

Toy Makers, Retailers Announce New Safety Policies

Toy Makers, Retailers Announce New Safety Policies
The Toy Industry Association has endorsed the general direction of a proposal for a new toy testing and safety ...

HP, Sony, Nike, Nokia Among Tokyo Declaration Signatories

HP, Sony, Nike, Nokia Among Tokyo Declaration Signatories
A business group including companies such as HP, Sony, Nokia and Nike have released the Tokyo Declaration, a ...

HP Pledges To Cut Emissions

HP Pledges To Cut Emissions
HP officials have pledged to reduce emissions from operations and the use of its products by six million tons ...

Staples Stops Sourcing Paper From APP

Staples Stops Sourcing Paper From APP
Staples has joined retailers like Office Depot in no longer doing business with Asia Pulp & Paper due to ...

Who Will Fund The Push For Clean Energy?

Who Will Fund The Push For Clean Energy?
Due to volatile markets and plunging stocks, Wall Street is not so keen on funding renewable energy projects involving ...

Most Supply Chain Policies Ignore Environmental Impact

Most Supply Chain Policies Ignore Environmental Impact
A new survey by Bearing Point found that almost two thirds of firms surveyed had taken no action ...

HP Recycles 250 Million Pounds in 2007

HP Recycles 250 Million Pounds in 2007
HP announced it has recycled nearly 250 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges in 2007, a 50 ...

Company Values Most Important to Japanese Consumers

Company Values Most Important to Japanese Consumers
Results from Natural Marketing Institute’s LOHAS Consumer Trends Database show that Japanese consumers are more likely to indicate that they would ...

Nokia Promises More Energy-Efficient Chargers

Nokia Promises More Energy-Efficient Chargers
Nokia has joined the WWF Climate Savers program and pledged to cut the power consumption of its battery chargers ...

Climate Change Not a Big Business Priority

Climate Change Not a Big Business Priority
A recent survey of more than 500 big businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China found ...

Closeup On Honda Clarity

Closeup On Honda Clarity
Steve Ellis, marketing manager for Honda's fuel cell program, talks with Green Fuels Forecast about the retail launch of the Clarity....

Fujitsu Unveils Green Initiative

Fujitsu Unveils Green Initiative
Fujitsu announced a new company-wide initiative dedicated to make greener products in a greener fashion, reports Fox Business. As part ...

Mitsubishi CEO Takes On Role Of Chief Sustainability Officer

Mitsubishi CEO Takes On Role Of Chief Sustainability Officer
Mitsubishi has announced that President and CEO, Ryoichi Ueda, has also been appointed as Chief Sustainability Officer for the company's North ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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