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BT Says CSR Week A Big Success

BT Says CSR Week A Big Success
BT held its fourth CSR week earlier this month. Adrian Hosford, BT's director of corporate responsibility, said that ...

Dow’s Liveris On High Energy Prices And USCAP

Dow’s Liveris On High Energy Prices And USCAP
Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris discusses high energy prices and USCAP at WSJ's ECO:nomics conference....

Merrill Lynch Partners With Carbon Disclosure Project

Merrill Lynch Partners With Carbon Disclosure Project
Merrill Lynch has signed a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project to support CDP's development and growth ...

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference
The Wall Street Journal held its CEO-level "ECO:nomics - Creating Environmental Capital" conference in California last week. Here are ...

ArcelorMittal Tells EU Court That Emissions Rules Aren’t Fair

ArcelorMittal Tells EU Court That Emissions Rules Aren’t Fair
Lawyers for steel giant ArcelorMittal have told Europe's highest court that there's no justification for EU lawmakers to ...

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its 2008 Environmental Outlook. Without new policies, the world risks irreversibly ...

Google, News Corp., Patagonia, Others Form Calif. Green Power Group

Google, News Corp., Patagonia, Others Form Calif. Green Power Group
Fourteen California companies have formed a California affiliate network of The Green Power Group which will share best practices ...

US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations

US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations
The U.S. is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to James Connaughton and ...

Weather Channel Details Earth Day Campaign

Weather Channel Details Earth Day Campaign
The Weather Channel is launching a new campaign, Help Make Every Day Earth Day, which will encourage green viewers ...

GM’s Bob Lutz: Global Warming Is A ‘Crock Of Shit’

GM’s Bob Lutz: Global Warming Is A ‘Crock Of Shit’
During a closed-door session with reporters in January, Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman, said that global warming ...

Global Warming Changing Corporate Mindset

Global Warming Changing Corporate Mindset
Climate change is beginning to change the mind-sets, policies and actions of corporate heads, financiers and entrepreneurs as well as leaders of ...

HP, Sony, Nike, Nokia Among Tokyo Declaration Signatories

HP, Sony, Nike, Nokia Among Tokyo Declaration Signatories
A business group including companies such as HP, Sony, Nokia and Nike have released the Tokyo Declaration, a ...

Top 5 Cities Working To Fight Global Warming

Top 5 Cities Working To Fight Global Warming
Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council discusses which cities are on the cutting edge in using alternative energy and how ...

Branson Calls For Climate ‘War Room’

Branson Calls For Climate ‘War Room’
At a UN climate meeting, Richard Branson, head of Virgin Group, offered to set up an "environmental war room" ...

FT500 Warms Up To Releasing GHG Data

FT500 Warms Up To Releasing GHG Data
During 2007, two-thirds of the Global FT500 issued a stand-alone nonfinancial report with 87 percent addressing climate change and ...

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change
Tony Blair said that he will advise Zurich Financial Services on climate change and political issues, Business Week ...

Green Technology Overview

Green Technology Overview
Adam Grosser, general partner of Foundation Capital, describes the different categories of green technology and the challenges they face....

Climate Change Not a Big Business Priority

Climate Change Not a Big Business Priority
A recent survey of more than 500 big businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China found ...

Lawyers Charge Top Dollar For Climate Change Work

Lawyers Charge Top Dollar For Climate Change Work
Twenty of the top 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms are billing as much as $700 dollars per hour for ...

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy
In Texas, Panda Ethanol is nearing completion of the first-ever manure fired ethanol plant in the world, Reuters reports. The world's first ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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