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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 ...

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance
Google, Anheuser-Busch and Levi Strauss had the largest score improvement, each jumping over 20 points, in Climate Counts' ...

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 ...

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Major retailers, including OfficeMax, Home Depot, Banana Republic and REI all sent e-mails with Earth friendly ideas or Earth ...

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 ...

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change
British economist and academic Lord Nicholas Stern has published a set of proposals (PDF) for a global deal ...

Poorest Children Face Biggest Climate Change Impact

Poorest Children Face Biggest Climate Change Impact
A new report warns the world's poorest children face the biggest impact from climate change. Following its findings, UNICEF UK is calling ...

Environmental Defense Fund’s Fred Krupp On Renewable Energy

Environmental Defense Fund’s Fred Krupp On Renewable Energy
Green Canary Sustainability CEO Kevin Tuerff interviews Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund about his new book, "Earth: The Sequel" and ...

North Pole Could Be Swimmable In 2008

North Pole Could Be Swimmable In 2008
In September 2007, Arctic sea ice reached a record low, opening up the fabled North-West passage that runs from ...

CO2, Methane Up Sharply In 2007

CO2, Methane Up Sharply In 2007
The 2007 rise in global carbon dioxide concentrations is tied with 2005 as the third highest since atmospheric measurements ...

Green Business Experts Author Climate Change Strategy Book

Green Business Experts Author Climate Change Strategy Book
In "Climate Change: What's Your business Strategy?" (Harvard Business Press, $18), due out May 1, 2008, Andrew Hoffman ...

Number Of People Who Expect Severe Climate Change Shrinking

Number Of People Who Expect Severe Climate Change Shrinking
As the nation gets ready to celebrate Earth Day 2008, attitudes towards global warming are little changed from last year. Sixty-seven percent ...

No Emissions Goal At Major Economics Meeting

No Emissions Goal At Major Economics Meeting
No fixed targets were set at the two-day Major Economies Meetings in Paris which brought together delegates from 16 ...

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It
In a Rose Garden speech today, President Bush acknowledged the need to put curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions and set ...

Bush To Give Speech On GHG Emissions Goal Today

Bush To Give Speech On GHG Emissions Goal Today
On Wednesday, President Bush will lay out specific goals for limiting greenhouse gases, making a commitment to other ...

Why Congress Is Avoiding A Global Warming Vote

Why Congress Is Avoiding A Global Warming Vote
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page writer Joe Rago speaking last week on whether Congress is avoiding a vote on global warming....

New CO2 Maps Offer Unprecedented Detail

New CO2 Maps Offer Unprecedented Detail
A new map offers more than 100 times the detail of previous inventories of carbon dioxide. The map, from Vulcan, a ...

Al Gore Tries Out New Slideshow At TED

Al Gore Tries Out New Slideshow At TED
Al Gore has a brand-new slideshow and he says that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists have ...

Marriott Steps Up Green Efforts With $2M Rainforest Pledge

Marriott Steps Up Green Efforts With $2M Rainforest Pledge
Marriott International has signed an agreement with the state of Amazonas to help protect 1.4 million acres of endangered ...

Transport Industry Least Prepared For Climate Change

Transport Industry Least Prepared For Climate Change
Aviation, healthcare, tourism, transport, oil and gas and the financial services sector all feature in the "danger zone" in a report ...

Today's News

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

At Yahoo! headquarters, we recently installed an interactive touch screen next to our corporate cafeteria. The Green Screen, as we fondly ... continue »

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

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

As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
The Bottom Line

Marketing

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

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Hi-Tech

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies

Efficiency

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel

Manufacturing

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

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance

Major Players

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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

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