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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 ...

Yokohama To Launch More Fuel Efficient Tire

Yokohama To Launch More Fuel Efficient Tire
Yokohama Rubber Company is set to release its DNA Earth-1 automotive tire series on February 1. Compared to the DNA ECOS, the ...

Firms Investing in Greener China

Firms Investing in Greener China
The U.S. government is sponsoring a program that pays American and other environmental-services companies to reduce emissions from China's factories, according to ...

Toyota To Make ‘Eco’ Indicators Standard In All Vehicles

Toyota To Make ‘Eco’ Indicators Standard In All Vehicles
Toyota plans to make vehicle efficiency indicators standard in all of its vehicles, hybrid and non-hybrid, reports Green Car Congress.  Toyota ...

China Takes Aim At Plastic Bags

China Takes Aim At Plastic Bags
China's Cabinet has ruled that on June 1 - just before China takes center stage at the Beijing Olympics in September - ...

Hitachi Releases Green Goals, Establishes ‘Chief Env. Strategy Officer’ Post

Hitachi Releases Green Goals, Establishes ‘Chief Env. Strategy Officer’ Post
The Hitachi Group has drafted a long-term plan called Environmental Vision 2025 with the goal of cutting CO2 emissions associated with ...

Toyota Faces Hybrid Challengers

Toyota Faces Hybrid Challengers
Honda chief Takeo Fukui says the company will battle Toyota for eco-supremacy in the years ahead, Business Week reports. That's not ...

Report From Bali - Hotel Waste Piles Up

Report From Bali - Hotel Waste Piles Up
The Four Seasons, Bali Inter-Continental and Ritz-Carlton are among a handful of resorts that are doing it right when it comes to ...

MAS Breaks Ground On Green Apparel Manufacturing Facility For M&S

MAS Breaks Ground On Green Apparel Manufacturing Facility For M&S
MAS Holdings, a company that manufactures lingerie in Sra Lanka, has begun construction on a 110,000 square foot eco manufacturing plant ...

Nokia Says Green Plan Provides ‘Chance To Make A Profit’

Nokia Says Green Plan Provides ‘Chance To Make A Profit’
Nokia Siemens Networks wants to cut energy consumption at some of its mobile base stations by up to 40 percent by ...

Chevy Tahoe Hybrid Dubbed ‘Green Car Of The Year’

Chevy Tahoe Hybrid Dubbed ‘Green Car Of The Year’
The 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid - the first General Motors vehicle to use the company’s all-new two-mode hybrid system - has ...

Sun, 10 Other IT Firms To Build Energy-Saving Underground Data Center

Sun, 10 Other IT Firms To Build Energy-Saving Underground Data Center
Sun Microsystems and 10 other IT firms plan to build an underground data center in Japan, Nikkei reports. It will consume ...

Tokyo Car Show Highlights Green Tech

Tokyo Car Show Highlights Green Tech
Tokyo's auto show has the best and brightest in futuristic eco-friendly technology. The latest in hybrids, fuel cells and electric cars hit ...

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Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Comments on the Language of Marketing Sustainability. In today's culture of over-parsed lexicon, where we argue the meaning of ... continue »

Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
Environmental Compliance: Initiatives Broaden, Budgets Up - Complete Apps Still Few in Number
Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

According to a green survey from Rackspace Hosting (PDF), 44 percent of respondents are willing to pay more for green products ...

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EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
Most Americans Have Made Lifestyle Changes To Help The Environment
Climate Change And Public Health

Climate Change And Public Health

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, M.D. is interviewed by EnviroTV about the connection between climate change and public health....

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Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
Stern Helps Launch New Carbon Ratings Agency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Canada Ad Watchdog Releases Green Marketing Guidelines

Emissions

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Wal-Mart’s New Milk Jug Cuts Costs, Customers Cry Over Spilt Milk

Hi-Tech

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Sony At Top, Nintendo, MS At Bottom Of Greenpeace Electronics Rankings

Efficiency

Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education

Harvard, Yale, Others Embrace Green Design

Manufacturing

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Maintaining Product Quality Alongside Environmental Performance

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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