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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 ...

Dallas Adopts Green Building Ordinance

Dallas Adopts Green Building Ordinance
The Dallas City Council has adopted a green construction ordinance which aims to reduce energy and water consumption in ...

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers
HP has issued its 2007 Global Citizenship Report and a list of its largest suppliers. According to the report, ...

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie's climate change practice has launched the CDM Rulebook website, an online database for the rules ...

ESS Releases New Sustainability Software

ESS Releases New Sustainability Software
ESS has released its new enterprise sustainability software platform, Essential Suite version 7.1. The company says that the ...

FTC To Update Green Marketing Guides

FTC To Update Green Marketing Guides
The Federal Trade Commission is beginning a regulatory review of its environmental marketing guidelines, also known as the Green Guides. While ...

Xcel Files Long-Range Energy Plan

Xcel Files Long-Range Energy Plan
By 2015, Xcel Energy in Colorado wants to add approximately 1,050 megawatts of renewable generation, reduce current electricity demand by 694 megawatts ...

Greenpeace Slams iPhone Over Hazardous Chemicals

Greenpeace Slams iPhone Over Hazardous Chemicals
Greenpeace says Apple's new iPhone contains a number of hazardous chemicals, InformationWeek reports. "Apple is not making early progress toward its ...

WaPo: $4.6 Billion AEP Settlement Victory For Power Industry

WaPo: $4.6 Billion AEP Settlement Victory For Power Industry
The American Electric Power settlement marks a significant victory for the power industry, which has opposed the "New Source Review" rule, ...

Hunt Refining Settles Clean Air Act Case For $49 Million

Hunt Refining Settles Clean Air Act Case For $49 Million
The Hunt Refining Co. and Hunt Southland Refining Co. have agreed to pay a $400,000 civil penalty and spend more than $48.5 ...

60% Of Companies Worry About Compliance Costs Of Climate Change Rules

60% Of Companies Worry About Compliance Costs Of Climate Change Rules
While U.S. businesses are concerned about compliance costs related to climate change legislation, those same companies still believe that the federal government ...

Carmakers Lose Emissions Case, California Waits For EPA Decision

Carmakers Lose Emissions Case, California Waits For EPA Decision
Vermont federal Judge William K. Sessions III has rejected challenges from auto manufacturers and upheld a state law that requires a 30 ...

ICS: Global Regulations Needed To Cut Ship Emissions

ICS: Global Regulations Needed To Cut Ship Emissions
The chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping says the UN must enforce global regulations if the industry is to cut ...

Clean Air Act Violations Cost DuPont $70 Million

Clean Air Act Violations Cost DuPont $70 Million
The Department of Justice and EPA have reached a settlement with DuPont that is expected to reduce more than 13,000 tons of emissions annually from four ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate ...

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such ...

Search Giants Guard Carbon Footprint Data

Search Giants Guard Carbon Footprint Data
At the Climate Savers Computing Initiative press conference earlier this week, Google vp for operations Urs Holzle declined to reveal the company's overall ...

EPA Wants Help Encouraging Self-Disclosed Environmental Violations

EPA Wants Help Encouraging Self-Disclosed Environmental Violations
The EPA is seeking comments on how a policy that offers reduced penalties to companies for self-disclosing environmental violations should apply to the ...

McDonald’s, Kiplinger, HSBC Among Most Ethical

McDonald’s, Kiplinger, HSBC Among Most Ethical
Ethisphere magazine has released a list of most ethical companies. In assembling the 2007 rankings of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, the ...

Kmart Reports Environmental Violations To EPA, Pays Fine

Kmart Reports Environmental Violations To EPA, Pays Fine
Kmart will pay a $102,422 fine to settle self-disclosed violations of federal environmental regulations discovered at 17 distribution centers in 13 ...

Today's News

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

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

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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