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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 ...

Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards

Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards
Roche, Consolidated Edison and Scottish ice cream company Mackies were named winners of the inaugural FT/Citi Private Bank environmental awards, Environmental ...

Icelandic Glacial Wins Sustainability Award

Icelandic Glacial Wins Sustainability Award
Icelandic Glacial Natural Spring Water took the top environmental prize at this year's BottledWaterWorld awards in Mexico. With the industry facing ...

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies
AlwaysOn has released a list of private greentech companies that it feels are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, ...

Hotels Need To Market Green Programs Better

Hotels Need To Market Green Programs Better
Although nearly three-fourths of hotel guests in North America willingly participate in environmentally friendly programs offered during their hotel stays, many guests ...

Unilever, Alcoa, HP Top Ethical Reputation Ranking

Unilever, Alcoa, HP Top Ethical Reputation Ranking
Covalence has published its quarterly ethical reputation ranking (PDF), highlighting the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the ...

Fetzer Snags Sustainability and Waste Reduction Awards

Fetzer Snags Sustainability and Waste Reduction Awards
Fetzer Vineyards has received the 2007 Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award from the EPA which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the signing ...

Shell Kicks Off Springboard Competition, Awards Technology That Cuts Emissions

Shell Kicks Off Springboard Competition, Awards Technology That Cuts Emissions
Shell has kicked off its third Springboard competition. Shell hopes to spur innovation in ways to reduce the impact of global warming by ...

Philips, Whole Foods, Canon Among List Of Top 20 Environmental Innovators

Philips, Whole Foods, Canon Among List Of Top 20 Environmental Innovators
The 2007 Sustainable Business 20 List, comprised of the 20 most innovative companies that are having an important impact on creating an environmentally ...

Gore Solicits User-Generated Ads for Climate Change

Gore Solicits User-Generated Ads for Climate Change
Former VP Al Gore is sponsoring a competition for TV and online ads that raise awareness of climate change, reports The ...

Sony ‘Biggest Loser’ In Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics Guide

Sony ‘Biggest Loser’ In Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics Guide
Apple has moved up Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics as a result of Steve Job's Greener Apple pledge to phase ...

Keen Launches Consumer Campaign To Fund Sustainability Ideas

Keen has launched Hybrid.Stand, a consumer campaign that will fund sustainability ideas and initiatives.  Keen says ...

RBC, Alcan, Vancity Named Canada’s Top Corporate Citizens

RBC, Alcan, Vancity Named Canada’s Top Corporate Citizens
Corporate Knights has released its list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. This year's top ranked companies: The top ranked company ...

Green Marketing Heats Up Cannes Ad Festival

Green Marketing Heats Up Cannes Ad Festival
In the three months ending June 14, marketers shelled out a combined $18 million on green-focused TV ads, according to TNS Media ...

Teknion, Earthcycle Packaging, Mercer Among Globe Winners

Teknion, Earthcycle Packaging, Mercer Among Globe Winners
Winners of the 6th annual Globe Awards for Environmental Excellence have been presented in four categories: Corporate Competitiveness, Technology Innovation and Application, ...

World Clean Energy Awards Highlight Best Energy Projects

World Clean Energy Awards Highlight Best Energy Projects
The very first World Clean Energy Awards have been presented (via GreenBiz). The Swiss transatlantic21 association drew up the program for ...

Sutainability Reporting Becoming The Norm

Sutainability Reporting Becoming The Norm
Over the past six years, entries into the Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting have grown five-fold from 20 in its ...

Creative Sustainability Could Improve Sales, Market Share

Creative Sustainability Could Improve Sales, Market Share
Toyota, Timberland, Aspen Skiing, Ben & Jerry's, Flexcar and Hewlett-Packard received global citizen statuettes at Advertising Age's first Green Conference to commemorate ...

Today's News

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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