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Small Business Sustainability Measures Can Compete With Larger Companies

Small Business Sustainability Measures Can Compete With Larger Companies
While small businesses can't dedicate entire departments and budgets to sustainability measures like companies like Wal-Mart can, they can ...

Sustainability And Marketing Must Walk Hand In Hand

Sustainability And Marketing Must Walk Hand In Hand
In order to effectively communicate their green commitments companies must bridge the gap between technical and marketing experts, AdAge ...

SoftLayer Cuts Packaging By 80%

SoftLayer Cuts Packaging By 80%
SoftLayer says it has received its first delivery of servers under a new server packaging program that reduces packing materials ...

Carbon Capture Storage Gains Interest In EU

Carbon Capture Storage Gains Interest In EU
Carbon Capture Storage could be the silver bullet EU member states need to substantially cut down on CO2 emissions while maintaining their ...

Verizon Suppliers Must Meet New Energy Efficiency Standards

Verizon Suppliers Must Meet New Energy Efficiency Standards
Verizon has established its own energy-consumption standards and an associated measurement for new telecommunications-related equipment that its suppliers will ...

FTC Tackles Green Building, Textiles In Latest Green Claims Workshop

FTC Tackles Green Building, Textiles In Latest Green Claims Workshop
The Federal Trade Commission has announced the third in a series of public workshops being held as part ...

Marks & Spencer Sets 2012 Carbon Neutral Goal

Marks & Spencer Sets 2012 Carbon Neutral Goal
Marks & Spencer, which recently announced the opening of its first ‘eco-factory' designed to be carbon neutral, has announced ...

Marriott Flips Switch On Tri-Generation Plant

Marriott Flips Switch On Tri-Generation Plant
The New York Marriott Downtown has flipped the switch on a "microturbine farm." The installation of two hotel owner-funded ...

HP Unveils Ambitious Data Center Project, More Efficient Solar Energy System

HP Unveils Ambitious Data Center Project, More Efficient Solar Energy System
HP's research arm HP Labs has announced new sustainability research initiatives the company says will include an industry-first ...

Calistoga Plant Improvements Save 1.3 Million KWh/Year

Calistoga Plant Improvements Save 1.3 Million KWh/Year
Recent enhancements to Calistoga Beverage Company's compressed air system for processing, bottling and packaging water, will save Calistoga 1.3 million kwh of ...

Supply Chain Managers Are Architecting A Green Future

Supply Chain Managers Are Architecting A Green Future
All along the supply chain, costs are skyrocketing and competition is intensifying. The focus on sustainability-focused supply chain strategies allows companies to ...

New Cassat Software Powers Down Idle Computers, Cuts Energy Use

New Cassat Software Powers Down Idle Computers, Cuts Energy Use
Cassatt Corporation announced a new capability of its Cassatt Active Response products that enables the software to monitor the changing demand ...

Google, PepsiCo, Kellogg, AmEx Make ‘Most Ethical’ List

Google, PepsiCo, Kellogg, AmEx Make ‘Most Ethical’ List
Google, PepsiCo, Kellogg, and American Express, rose to the top of the Ethisphere Institute's 2008 list of 2008 ...

MWH Offers Sustainable Energy Management Services

MWH Offers Sustainable Energy Management Services
The environmental engineering firm of MWH is offering sustainable energy management services to industrial clients in the U.S. SEM ...

The 3 Keys To CSR Reporting Are Materiality, Materiality And Materiality

The 3 Keys To CSR Reporting Are Materiality, Materiality And Materiality
In the past, the importance of CSR reporting was that it existed at all. Stakeholders just wanted to know if a company ...

Publishing Industry Writes Sustainability Story

Publishing Industry Writes Sustainability Story
Climate change, sustainable packaging and reducing paper use were among the workshop topics the book industry's recent annual trade ...

Outdoor Industry Climbing Toward Sustainability

Outdoor Industry Climbing Toward Sustainability
Members of the Outdoor Industry Association Eco Working Group, representing over 50 brands, met recently to begin developing a framework for ...

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance
BT has announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020 and published a "Climate Stabilization ...

IT: Software Has A Role In Energy Efficiency

IT: Software Has A Role In Energy Efficiency
Software makers should position themselves to compete in non-IT-related areas where there is high power consumption and carbon output, ...

Best Buy Expands Electronics Recycling

Best Buy Expands Electronics Recycling
Best Buy has launched a test of its newest electronics recycling program to in 117 U.S. stores in ...

Today's News

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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