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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 ...

Consumers Think Sustainability is Here to Stay

Consumers Think Sustainability is Here to Stay
The number of U.S. consumers who think sustainability is here to stay outnumbers those who don't by two-to-one, according to Natural ...

Market Opportunities Drive Green Technology

Market Opportunities Drive Green Technology
Forty percent of technology executives claim the green movement creates significant market opportunities for their companies, as evidenced by a noticeable increase ...

Transparency Key Indicator Of Socially Responsible Companies

Transparency Key Indicator Of Socially Responsible Companies
Transparency in communications is a key indicator of a socially responsible company - more important than philanthropy or NGO partnerships - according ...

SustainAbility’s John Elkington On Freshwater Crisis

SustainAbility’s John Elkington On Freshwater Crisis
John Elkington, founder and chief entrepreneur of SustainAbility, speaks with journalist J. Carl Ganter at the World Economic Forum about the rising ...

IBM, JP Morgan, Motorola, Others Join Supply Chain Carbon Council

IBM, JP Morgan, Motorola, Others Join Supply Chain Carbon Council
The European Supply Chain Institute's recently formed Supply Chain Carbon Council has unveiled new members including: IBM, KFW Foderbank, JP Morgan, ...

Do Eco-Friendly Reward Programs Make Banks Look Too Green?

Do Eco-Friendly Reward Programs Make Banks Look Too Green?
Financial institutions realize that adding green cards to their product lines boosts their own corporate environmental credentials. But, on ...

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 ...

DuPont, 3M, Daikin and Others Reduce PFOA

DuPont, 3M, Daikin and Others Reduce PFOA
In response to the 2006 EPA launch of the 2010/15 PFOA Stewardship Program, eight companies have reported ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

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

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

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

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

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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