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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 ...

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners
The Uptime Institute, a research-based think-tank and advisor on business and technology issues related to computing and energy efficiency, ...

Green 15 - InfoWorld Picks Top Green IT Leaders

Green 15 - InfoWorld Picks Top Green IT Leaders
InfoWorld has unveiled its selections for the Green 15 awards. Recipients are organizations that have made significant ...

Kraft, Marks & Spencer Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners

DuPont has announced the winners of the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognized "achievements that improve the ...

Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced, Chevron Hits the Ceiling

Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced, Chevron Hits the Ceiling
The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients have been named and Chevron isn't happy. The prizes reward grass-roots environmental ...

GE, HSBC, Wal-Mart Win Green Effies

GE, HSBC, Wal-Mart Win Green Effies
GE, HSBC and Wal-Mart are inaugural winners of Green Effie Awards, which honor effective eco-marketing. GE's "Ecomagination Round Two," created by BBDO ...

P&G, Hasbro, Stew Leonard’s Among NEEP Energy Efficiency Honorees

P&G, Hasbro, Stew Leonard’s Among NEEP Energy Efficiency Honorees
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships has announced the latest group of Northeast Business Leaders for Energy Efficiency: P&G-Gillette in Boston, Massachusetts cut energy ...

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 ...

HP Innovates Cartridge Recying Program

HP Innovates Cartridge Recying Program
HP has developed the ability to use recycled plastics in the production of new HP inkjet print cartridges, according ...

Philips ‘Green’ TV Wins CNET Award At CES

Philips ‘Green’ TV Wins CNET Award At CES
Philips's "green" TV wins CNET's award for best television at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show....

Marks & Spencer Chief Tops List Of Ethical Leaders

Marks & Spencer Chief Tops List Of Ethical Leaders
Ethical Corporation has selected 15 individuals from business, politics and civil society that the magazine feels has done the most for ...

Green Marketing Gets Its Own Effie

Green Marketing Gets Its Own Effie
The Effie Awards is launching a green category that will be sponsored by Discovery' Network's Planet Green. The Green Effie ...

Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners

Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners
Global Green USA has announced the winners of its Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards. Albanese Organization won ...

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 ...

Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, Kohl’s Among Green Power Award Winners

Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, Kohl’s Among Green Power Award Winners
EPA has recognized 17 organizations that make up this year’s green power purchaser award winners, a mix of Fortune 500 companies, ...

Providence Health And Services Recognized For Energy Leadership

Providence Health And Services Recognized For Energy Leadership
Since 2004, Providence Health & Services has invested more than $10 million in energy upgrades at 27 new and existing Oregon ...

Gore, IPCC Win Nobel For Global Warming Work

Gore, IPCC Win Nobel For Global Warming Work
Al Gore and to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Prize for its work to alert the world ...

Catalyst Paper, Doubletree Win Awards For Green Efforts

Catalyst Paper, Doubletree Win Awards For Green Efforts
Nonprofit Metafore announced the winners of the Metafore Innovation Awards at the Green Power Corporate Climate Response Conference. The award theme ...

LG Wins Award For Green Packaging

LG Wins Award For Green Packaging
LG was recently recognized for excellence in its packaging waste management by Packaging Magazine's Packaging Evolution Awards, Sustainable Is Good reports. ...

Shortlist For $1 Million Alcan Sustainability Prize Released

Shortlist For $1 Million Alcan Sustainability Prize Released
Alcan and International Business Leaders Forum have announced the shortlist of candidates for the $1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability for ...

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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
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
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....

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Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
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

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

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Hi-Tech

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Efficiency

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Manufacturing

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

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Major Players

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

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