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Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives

Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives
CRO has compiled a list of ways companies can stay responsible during an economic slowdown: Make corporate responsibility initiatives a bigger priority ...

Used Fry Grease Rich Target For Grease Gangs…Seriously

Used Fry Grease Rich Target For Grease Gangs…Seriously
With grease being used to make biodiesel, and its price tripling in the past two years, thieves are breaking ...

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions
Of the 20 shareholder resolutions filed with companies by Domini Social Investments for the 2008 proxy season, six concerned ...

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced an online Innovation Hotel, to gather feedback from travelers about "green" features that ...

eCommerce Goes Green

eCommerce Goes Green
B2B and B2C online sellers are increasingly adopting environmentally friendly business practices, according to research (download here) from Online Market World. The ...

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

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing
IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and Herman Miller have found a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing, purchasing.com reports. IBM takes ...

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent
The Billerica, Mass.-based life-sciences equipment maker Millipore said it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over ...

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
CEOs believe that customer expectations around corporate social responsibility are increasing, and CSR will play an important role in differentiating an enterprise ...

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Eighty-two percent of senior finance and risk managers believe global climate change will require changes to their business models in the years ...

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
Jonathan Cohen from DuPont explains the aims of his company in developing sustainable solutions for the packaging industry. DuPont recently announced ...

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

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel
Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) expects to go online September 10, News.com reports. The blind online ...

Mobile Carriers Seek Lower Emissions

Mobile Carriers Seek Lower Emissions
Mobile carriers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency, PCWorld reports. Reducing the cost of running mobile networks ...

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines
The Canadian province of Alberta received $25 million less from carbon-emissions fines in the past eight months than it ...

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
HP and the State of California have teamed up to create a recycling tracking program for HP printing cartridges....

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

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas
Exxon Mobil Corp. said it is building a commercial demonstration plant near LaBarge, Wyo., to test an improved ...

US Airlines Could Face $9 Billion Carbon Bill In 2020

US Airlines Could Face $9 Billion Carbon Bill In 2020
Proposed U.S. emission-trading legislation could leave airlines with a $9 billion annual bill in carbon costs, FlightGlobal.com reports. Should ...

Novozymes Pushes Enzymes As Earth-Friendly Ingredient

Novozymes Pushes Enzymes As Earth-Friendly Ingredient
Companies can reduce their carbon footprint by replacing fossil fuel ingredients with bio-based materials, Steen Riisgaard, CEO of Novozymes, ...

Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints

Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has released its Annual Report 2007 (PDF). The ASA says it dealt with record ...

Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building

Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building
Blue Sun Biodiesel is the first energy company headquartered in a LEED Platinum certified office building, of which there are 26 in ...

Today's News

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
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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