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Staples Launches Online Green Catalog For Contract Customers

Staples Launches Online Green Catalog For Contract Customers
Just one week after Office Depot announced a new line of green products, Staples, has launched the ...

HOK Launches Gimmicky ‘Go Barefoot’ Campaign

HOK Launches Gimmicky ‘Go Barefoot’ Campaign
This Earth Day, architectural firm HOK is pushing its more than 2,500  employees on four continents to "Go ...

Climate Registry Releases GHG Reporting Protocol

Climate Registry Releases GHG Reporting Protocol
The Climate Registry has released its General Reporting Protocol (PDF), an agreement among its member states ...

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie's climate change practice has launched the CDM Rulebook website, an online database for the rules ...

New Financial Models Make Solar Power More Economical

New Financial Models Make Solar Power More Economical
Solar companies are becoming financial intermediaries, leading companies to install solar power that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford ...

Xerox Unveils Sustainability Calculator For Office Tech

Xerox Unveils Sustainability Calculator For Office Tech
Xerox has launched a sustainability calculator that measures the overall impact a company's printers and copiers have on the environment. It ...

TIAA-CREF Aims For 10% Cut In Real Estate Portfolio’s Energy Use

TIAA-CREF Aims For 10% Cut In Real Estate Portfolio’s Energy Use
TIAA-CREF, one of America's largest institutional real estate investors, says it will improve the energy efficiency of its ...

Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling

Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling
NEW Customer Service will soon roll its ecoNEW electronics buy back program to electronic retailers nationwide, CNET ...

US Employers Not So Hot At Communicating Green Cred

US Employers Not So Hot At Communicating Green Cred
German businesses appear to be setting the pace in terms of communicating their “green” credentials, with 43 percent of ...

Staples Switches All Copy & Print Centers To Recycled Paper

Staples Switches All Copy & Print Centers To Recycled Paper
Staples says that all of its 1,400 Copy & Print Centers in the U.S. are now using recycled paper ...

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 ...

Zurn, Eaton Launch Green Building Website

Zurn, Eaton Launch Green Building Website
Eaton Corporation is the first company to join a new green initiative launched by commercial plumbing products manufacturer Zurn ...

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers
Forty percent of the world's land mass has wind speeds at more than 6 m per second, according to Seattle-based 3Tier, ...

NYC ‘Black Cars’ Go Green

NYC ‘Black Cars’ Go Green
NYC's Taxi and Limousine Commission will require the city's 10,000 black car fleet - the luxury cars that ...

MS&L Tops List Of CSR PR Firms

MS&L Tops List Of CSR PR Firms
CRO Magazine has released its list of Top 10 corporate responsibility PR firms (PDF). Manning Selvage & Lee Ketchum Edelman...

Green-e Climate Certifying Carbon Offsets

Green-e Climate Certifying Carbon Offsets
The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation's first independent ...

ClimateCheck Sets Up Shop In U.S.

ClimateCheck Sets Up Shop In U.S.
Canada-based ClimateCHECK, a company that provides greenhouse gas management and products has opened a San Francisco office. ClimateCHECK says it has worked ...

Aravo, WSP Partner On Environmental Products

Aravo, WSP Partner On Environmental Products
Aravo and WSP Environment & Energy are partnering to target corporate sustainability and environmental compliance users ...

ESS Releases New Sustainability Software

ESS Releases New Sustainability Software
ESS has released its new enterprise sustainability software platform, Essential Suite version 7.1. The company says that the ...

UPS, FedEx Find Ways To Save Gas

UPS, FedEx Find Ways To Save Gas
With record setting gas and diesel prices, fuel-efficient package delivery has taken on an even higher level of importance ...

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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