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AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

Kimberly-Clark Releases Sustainability Report

Kimberly-Clark Releases Sustainability Report
Kimberly-Clark Corporation has released its 2006 sustainability report. According to K-C, in 2006 the company has: Reduced its energy use by two percent and increased ...

Top 10 Lessons For Corporate/NGO Settlements

Top 10 Lessons For Corporate/NGO Settlements
Ten years ago, top executives of three distinct Mitsubishi companies, the targets of a boycott by Rainforest Action Network, sat down with RAN's leaders ...

SHRM Study: U.S. Organizations Less Likely To Have Formal CSR Policies

SHRM Study: U.S. Organizations Less Likely To Have Formal CSR Policies
More than four out of five organizations in seven countries are participating in corporate social responsibility practices, ranging from donating to local ...

Footprint Tool & Analyses of Shell, BT, BP Others Available

Footprint Tool & Analyses of Shell, BT, BP Others Available
The Center for Sustainable Innovation has made its Global Warming Footprint tool available. The calculator compares an organization's emissions with an ...

Nokia Releases 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report

Nokia Releases 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report
Nokia has released its 2006 corporate responsibility report. Highlights include Nokia's first sustainability summary, updated Nokia supplier requirements containing more ethical and ...

Ford Offers Flex Fuel Crown Victoria Police Vehicle

Ford Offers Flex Fuel Crown Victoria Police Vehicle
Ford's 2008 Crown Victoria Police Interceptor will be offered as a flexible fuel vehicle allowing it to operate on E85 ethanol ...

White House Recognizes “Environmentally Preferable” Computer Manufacturers

White House Recognizes “Environmentally Preferable” Computer Manufacturers
The White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Federal Environmental Executive have released a list of computer manufacturers that make "environmentally preferable computers ...

EPA’s Performance Track Adds 55 New Facilities

EPA’s Performance Track Adds 55 New Facilities
From leading food and beverage companies to a major automobile manufacturer, 55 new facilities have joined the National Environmental Performance ...

EPA Cuts Diesel Locomotive and Vessel Pollution

EPA Cuts Diesel Locomotive and Vessel Pollution
EPA is proposing a new rule to reduce air pollution from locomotive and marine diesel engines. The Clean Air Locomotive and ...

Honda to Spend $165 Million for Greener Facilities

Honda to Spend $165 Million for Greener Facilities
Honda will spend $165 million by 2009 to make two of its coating facilities in North America more environmentally friendly, helping them ...

RFP for Record 10 Million Tons of U.S. CO2 Offsets

RFP for Record 10 Million Tons of U.S. CO2 Offsets
Five power companies have issued an RFP seeking greenhouse gas offset proposals for more than 10 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions sourced ...

Deutsche Telekom Releases 2006 Sustainability Report

Deutsche Telekom Releases 2006 Sustainability Report
Deutsche Telekom has released its 2006 Human Resources and Sustainability Report with the theme Leading change. The company says that employees are the driving ...

EU Could Ban Inefficient Tech Products Within ‘Two Years’

EU Could Ban Inefficient Tech Products Within ‘Two Years’
Senior executives at HP think that the European Commission is approaching a milestone in its attempts to improve energy efficiency and that strict ...

Marriott to Slap Energy Star Label on 85 Hotels

Marriott to Slap Energy Star Label on 85 Hotels
Marriott International says that more than 85 of its hotels will earn the Energy Star label -? signifying 35 percent less energy use than ...

Chirac Demands U.S. Sign Kyoto or Face Carbon Tax

Chirac Demands U.S. Sign Kyoto or Face Carbon Tax
President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the U.S. sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when ...

Safeway First Retailer to Join California Climate Action Registry

Safeway First Retailer to Join California Climate Action Registry
Safeway is the first retailer to join the California Climate Action Registry, California's only official registry for greenhouse gas emissions ...

GE, AES to Develop Carbon Emission Reduction Projects & Sell Offsets

GE, AES to Develop Carbon Emission Reduction Projects & Sell Offsets
AES and GE Energy Financial Services are creating a partnership to develop greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in the ...

EU Cuts Belgian, Dutch Carbon Emission Allowances

EU Cuts Belgian, Dutch Carbon Emission Allowances
The European Commission has cut allowances for the amount of carbon dioxide industry in Belgium and the Netherlands can release from ...

International Companies Form Climate Protection Initiative

International Companies Form Climate Protection Initiative
Sixteen international companies have signed a global climate protection initiative 3C: Combating Climate Change, which was presented to the European Commission ...

Today's News

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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