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E-Waste Recycling Partnerships Proliferate

While electronics waste or e-waste recycling partnerships are providing significant environmental benefits by keeping waste out of landfills, they are also giving manufacturers and retailers an ...

July 23, 2009

Data Center Efficiencies Wait in the Wings

For companies looking to slash their carbon footprint and gain energy efficiencies, the IT data center is a logical first choice. From re-evaluating the equipment in place ...

July 8, 2009

In Pharma Sustainability, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Rate High

On a scale of 1 to 100, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are the only pharmaceutical companies to rate above 70 in a recent survey of ...

June 5, 2009

Firm Adds ‘Renewable Energy Surchage’ To Customer Bills

Many businesses are forcing customers to pay fuel surcharges these days, but how about a renewable energy surcharge? San Francisco's Sherwood Design Engineers tacks on an extra 0.05% to bills in order to ...

July 10, 2008

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing

For years, sourcing and procurement organizations have focused on perfecting lean business processes, guided by the fundamentals of strategy, size, management, and financial performance. But now the collective resources, regulations, and reputations of companies are ...

April 27, 2008

Drinking Problems: Innovative Approaches to the World’s Water Crisis

March 22nd was World Water Day, and for many in the developed world, it passed without much notice. But elsewhere, more than 4,000 children under the age of five die each day from diseases caused ...

April 7, 2008

Consumer Product’s Green Diet: Slimmer Packaging Looks Good On You

What a difference a year makes. At the start of 2007, few consumer products companies had a focus on sustainability in packaging. However, 54 percent of the consumer goods companies that AMR Research recently surveyed ...

March 23, 2008

Wouldn’t It Be Nice – U.S. Solar Industry Basks in California Sun

"Wouldn't it be nice if we were older, then we wouldn't have to wait so long, and wouldn't it be nice to live together, in the kind of world where we belong..." In 1966, the Beach ...

February 19, 2008

Demand Drives GMA Sustainability Initiative

Sustainability initiatives are taking on greater urgency for consumer products companies as consumers, retailers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and their own employees push for an increased focus on environmental and social issues. We recently attended the ...

January 31, 2008

5 Stages Of Corporate Sustainability

In a recent AMR Research newsletter, John Davies wrote about five Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-like stages that a business might go through when embracing a sustainability strategy: Desire - The need for a company to "do something" ...

December 19, 2007

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