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Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Trade Exceeds 250,000 MT

More than 250,000 tons (metric tons) of certified sustainable palm oil have been purchased (PDF) since its availability late last year, marking the first stages ...

Accounts Payable Slow to Adopt Paperless Invoicing

Businesses could save money and decrease environmental impact by modernizing their accounts payable departments, which lag other business departments in reducing environmental impact. About 83 percent of ...

Big Week for Solar Announcements

With the Solar Power International conference taking place Oct. 27-29, a host of solar headlines are hitting the wires. ...

Verizon Chases Network Efficiency Via Thermal Modeling

Verizon is requiring its hardware suppliers to use thermal modeling when designing circuit boards and cabinets for its network equipment. The goal is to ...

Supply Chain Needs to Measure Carbon Footprint

Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer for SAP, discusses how companies in the business ...

Jones Lang LaSalle Puts All Properties in Energy Star Program

Jones Lang LaSalle has become the first major real estate service firm to enroll 100 percent of its managed property in the EPA's Energy ...

Sodexo Helps Customers Cut Energy, Water Consumption

Sodexo, an integrated facilities management services company, has outlined several key environmental projects at customer locations in its North America 2008-2009 Corporate Citizenship Report ...

‘Green’ Building Retrofits To Be 20-30% of Commercial Projects By 2014

Green building currently accounts for five to nine percent of the retrofit and renovation market activity by value, which equates to a $2 billion to $4 ...

Asda Adopting Own Version Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard

Asda, the UK subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., next year will introduce a packaging scorecard similar to what Wal-Mart has been using. The ...

IBM Delves Into Supply Chain Evaluation

IBM is launching a new consulting service to capitalize on the growth market in companies attempting to evaluate various environmental metrics about ...

CSC Targets 30% Energy Reduction

CSC, a global IT services provider, has taken steps over the past year to ensure a sustainable environment by focusing on programs such as energy reduction, ...

Intelligent Lighting Controls Deliver ROI in 3 Years

More building owners and managers are considering intelligent lighting systems to cut energy use because lighting, on average, accounts for approximately one-quarter of a building's overall ...

Renewables More Viable at Commercial Buildings After DC Power Standard

Businesses are now able to more easily adopt renewable energy sources and energy-saving devices with the introduction of the first DC power standard for commercial buildings. ...

Thales Cuts Energy Use 10%, CO2 Emissions 4%

By using cleaner energy and employee's efforts to reduce energy consumption, Thales has achieved a ten percent reduction in fossil fuel consumption and a 3.8 ...

Signage Businesses Adopt Eco-Friendly Inks, Materials

Businesses that provide signage solutions and other promotional materials are now starting to use environmentally-friendly inks, along with recyclable materials, thanks in part to HP's latest ...

In Climate Row, Nike Gives Up Chamber Board Seat

While not yet willing to give up its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nike nonetheless sent a strong message by relinquishing ...

Exelon, PNM to Leave U.S. Chamber Over Climate Change

Joining Pacific Gas & Electric Co., two more utilities have decided not to renew their membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, citing a dispute over ...

Duke Energy, FPL Plan EV Conversion by 2020

Two major utilities plan to convert their fleets of trucks and cars entirely to plug-in hybrid or completely electric vehicles by 2020. The move by FPL ...

Office Depot Helps Large Customers Understand ‘Greenness’ of Purchases

Office Depot is stepping up its transparency in products it sells that have environmental attributes, including a special program for larger customers that helps explain the "greenness" of the customers' overall purchases. The program relies ...

30% of Firms See Sustainability, Green Products as Central Part of Operations

Twice as many companies see sustainability as centrally oriented to their business operations, including the sale of "green" products or services, as compared to 2006, when just 15 percent indicated so. Now, 30 percent of ...