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New Guide Helps Advertisers Avoid Greenwash Complaints

New Guide Helps Advertisers Avoid Greenwash Complaints
Futerra Sustainability Communications has released a guide on how to prevent and avoid greenwash. Futerra’s new Greenwash Guide (PDF) analyzes ...

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies
IBM announced new energy-management software, an expansion of its energy certificates program, and an energy benchmark to help ...

OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products

OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products ...

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, ...

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill
Because Goodwill Industries is increasingly becoming a place to "donate" old computers and other used electronics, the organization is ...

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State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money
As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

New SAS Software Identifies Sustainable Business Strategies

New SAS Software Identifies Sustainable Business Strategies
SAS for Sustainability Management is a software platform designed to help companies and organizations identify strategies that address ...

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative
Enterprise Fleet Management, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, launched an environmental initiative designed to help its customers reduce greenhouse ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’
Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

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 ...

FedEx Installs Solar Power Systems

FedEx Installs Solar Power Systems
FedEx Freight has installed a solar power system in Whittier, California, and is nearing completion on a similar solar-powered ...

24 Strategies For Green Buildings

24 Strategies For Green Buildings
The Building Owners and Managers Association International has put together 24 strategies for increasing sustainability and optimizing performance in ...

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million
Hilton Hotels says it has delivered energy savings of over 10 percent last year across more than 80 hotels ...

Hearst Tower Sets Zero-Waste Policy

Hearst Tower Sets Zero-Waste Policy
Hearst Corporation has begun implementing a zero-waste policy at its Manhattan headquarters, making it among the first corporations to ...

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations are paying more attention to energy efficiency than they were just a year ...

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010
KPMG has set a goal of reducing its member firms' combined carbon footprint 25 percent by the year ...

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market
The California Climate Action Registry has launched Climate Action Reserve, which hopes to create standards for the voluntary ...

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020
Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL's parent says it's the ...

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 ...

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The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ... continue »

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities
Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue ...

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$5.2 Billion Invested in Cleantech Since January 2007
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

As the world looks for ways to counter climate change and reduce the carbon footprint, the most abundant energy source might be ...

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Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Payless ShoeSource Launching Eco-Friendly Footwear

Emissions

DHL: Carbon Neutral Supply Chains Possible, Takes Time

Dairy’s Carbon Footprint Drops to 12 Pounds Per Gallon

Toyota Announces Utah’s First LEED-certified Dealership

Hi-Tech

Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Efficiency

California Tops ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Coffee Bean Opens LEED-Certified Facility in Portland

Applied Materials Unveils 2 Megawatt Solar System

Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Financial Crisis Threatens EU’s Carbon Plans

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

Gap Flips Switch On 1 Megawatt Solar Power System

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

PR Agency Warned Starbucks About Wasteful Water Policy

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

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