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Sustainable Power Corp. Turns Trash Into Biofuel

Sustainable Power Corp. Turns Trash Into Biofuel
Sustainable Power Corp. announced that it has successfully tested turning Municipal Solid Waste into biofuel using the company's reactors. "By utilizing Municipal ...

Sustainability Guidelines for Office Furniture May Soon Be Finalized

Sustainability Guidelines for Office Furniture May Soon Be Finalized
A new national sustainability standard for office furniture makers, developed jointly by NSF and the Business and Institutional Furniture ...

GXS and Verizon Offer Automated Supply Chain Management Solutions

GXS and Verizon Offer Automated Supply Chain Management Solutions
GXS Trading Grid and Verizon Business are jointly offering automated supply chain management solutions to help companies shift ...

Lunar Design’s John Edson On Sustainable Design

Lunar Design’s John Edson On Sustainable Design
Interview by melodiesinmarketing.com with John Edson of Lunar Design, who discusses his firm, thoughts on sustainable product development, and how designers ...

Google, GHGS Co-developing GHG Reduction Projects

Google, GHGS Co-developing GHG Reduction Projects
On the heels of the announcement that GE and Google have teamed up to lobby in Washington ...

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Local Businesses Buying RECs

Local Businesses Buying RECs
Allen Press is the latest Lawrence business to buy green tags from Zephyr Energy, a partnership of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and ...

Fuji Says Data Tape Storage Helps Reduce Energy and Costs

Fuji Says Data Tape Storage Helps Reduce Energy and Costs
FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A. Inc. has introduced a campaign to help inform data center managers of the energy ...

GE, Google Team Up On Energy

GE, Google Team Up On Energy
GE and Google will lobby together in Washington D.C. for renewable energy and are collaborating on advanced energy technologies ...

HR Software Reduces Paper Use, Carbon Footprint

HR Software Reduces Paper Use, Carbon Footprint
According to Richard Thomas, director of product strategy and marketing at MidlandHR, human resource software can help companies with their corporate sustainability ...

Discount Drug Mart Retrofits 37 Stores, Expects 30% Energy Savings

Discount Drug Mart Retrofits 37 Stores, Expects 30% Energy Savings
More than half of Discount Drug Mart stores have completed lighting retrofits using a new GE lighting system. ...

InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Buys RECs

InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Buys RECs
InterContinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel has signed a renewable power purchase agreement with Constellation NewEnergy. Under the contract, CNE will secure 4,475 megawatt hours ...

Multi Packaging Solutions Adds 4 More FSC Certified Facilities

Multi Packaging Solutions Adds 4 More FSC Certified Facilities
Multi Packaging Solutions announced that four additional manufacturing locations are now certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) ...

Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool

Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool
According to a research by KDPaine & Partners and Brad Rawlins of Brigham Young University, environmental sustainability reporting ...

Planning a Greener Supply Chain

Planning a Greener Supply Chain
Andrew Kinder, director of products marketing for Supply Chain Mangement at Infor, writes in IndustryWeek that U.S. manufacturers ...

Lenovo Offers Free Electronics Recycling, Sets Emissions Reduction Target

Lenovo Offers Free Electronics Recycling, Sets Emissions Reduction Target
Lenovo has joined the Climate Group, and has unveiled a electronics recycling program as part of that membership. Lenovo ...

Study Links Carbon Management, CSR with Shareholder Value

Study Links Carbon Management, CSR with Shareholder Value
According to a study by Verizon Business and IR magazine, 87 percent of investor relations professionals say they ...

GE: Extend Clean Energy Tax Credits Or We’ll Go To Germany, China

GE: Extend Clean Energy Tax Credits Or We’ll Go To Germany, China
General Electric Energy's John Krenicki recently pleaded with senators to extend tax credits for renewable energy (see transcript below), ...

Green Benefits More than Environment, Profitable Too

Green Benefits More than Environment, Profitable Too
Companies are also seeing healthy returns on their green investments, Zachary Karabell, president of RiverTwice Research and senior adviser ...

Execs Lack Budgets To Green Data Centers

Execs Lack Budgets To Green Data Centers
Although CIOs and senior IT executives overwhelmingly believe that a green data center will become mission-critical, many lack the "green" to go ...

UK Lighting Industry Violates eWaste Laws

UK Lighting Industry Violates eWaste Laws
Despite an official warning from the government last August, manufacturers and wholesalers of fluorescent lamps in the UK continue to impose a ...

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COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

What is the No.1 event-related global communications opportunity for your carbon messaging of the next 4 years? Here are a couple of clues… •    ... continue »

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
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

The 3PL industry has made significant strides in establishing environmental responsibility as part of broader corporate visions, with companies reporting numerous internal ...

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Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many
Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

The U.S. beer maker Miller has a goal of zero waste in their breweries and is currently recycling 99.9% of all packaging ...

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Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Green Inc.: Conservation Organizations Compromised By Corporate Dollars

Office Depot Targets Eco-Conscious Consumers in Europe

Emissions

Ericsson Unveils Wind-Powered Tower Tube

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Constellation Wines Installing 1.2 Megawatt Solar System

Hi-Tech

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

European Data Centers Face Energy Crisis

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Efficiency

EPA Announces First WaterSense Partners of the Year

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard Drives Sustainability, Cuts GHG Emissions

Manufacturing

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

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

USDA, DOE Unveil Plans to Accelerate Sustainable Biofuels Development

EU Votes For Tougher Carbon Laws

Aveda Installs Solar System at L.A. Distribution Facility

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

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

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