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Environmental Benefit Of CDM Questioned, Again

Environmental Benefit Of CDM Questioned, Again
U.N. regulators who administer the Clean Development Mechanism have objected to dozens of developing-world projects in recent months, questioning ...

More Than 70% Of Public Aware Of Energy Star Label

More Than 70% Of Public Aware Of Energy Star Label
Public awareness of the Energy Star label has grown to more than 70 percent in 2008, an increase of about 20 percentage ...

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 ...

Enviro Groups Update Office Supply Industry’s Green Grades

Enviro Groups Update Office Supply Industry’s Green Grades
A recent USA Today ad placed by environmental groups Dogwood Alliance and ForestEthics highlighted the forest-related paper practices of  Corporate Express, ...

Chadbourne & Parke Launches Green Initiative

Chadbourne & Parke Launches Green Initiative
Chadbourne & Parke has launched a green initiative that focuses on recycling and reductions in energy and resource ...

Despite Resistance, CF Martin Guitars Promotes Sustainable Forestry

Despite Resistance, CF Martin Guitars Promotes Sustainable Forestry
Chris Martin, CEO of CF Guitars, talks about deforestation and his company's commitment to sustainable manufacturing practices on Sundance Channel's EcoBiz. We're ...

Scale Of Sodexo’s Recycled Napkin Program Saves Resources

Scale Of Sodexo’s Recycled Napkin Program Saves Resources
Sodexo says that after one year, its switch to recycled napkins in 1,300 foodservice operations nationwide has resulted ...

U.S. Split Between Environment And Economic Growth

U.S. Split Between Environment And Economic Growth
Even with high gas prices and the general perception that the U.S. is in a recession, Americans continue to say (by a ...

Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant

Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant
Earth Day must be approaching because a lot of big brands are announcing major initiatives with conservation and ...

Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies

Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies
Environmental stakeholders have changed from pesky activists to big investors - pension funds, state controllers, institutional investors, and ...

Toyota Backs Plant-A-Tree Program On Facebook

Toyota Backs Plant-A-Tree Program On Facebook
Toyota has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to create a Facebook application called Tree Planter. Users ...

Pittsburgh Pirates Launch Green Initiative

Pittsburgh Pirates Launch Green Initiative
The Pittsburgh Pirates have a new green initiative dubbed Let's Go Bucs. Let's Go Green. Elements of the plan ...

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?
Why face-to-face may work better than TV ads In the rush for corporations to catch up with consumer interest in all things green, ...

PG&E Restores Forests To Offset Emissions

PG&E Restores Forests To Offset Emissions
Pacific Gas and Electric is spending about $2 million to help restore two California redwood forests as part of ...

ecoEnvelopes Reusable Envelope Gets USPS Approval

ecoEnvelopes Reusable Envelope Gets USPS Approval
The US Postal Service has approved ecoEnvelopes' line of reusable envelopes, certifying that the design meets the qualifications ...

Pacific Forest Trust Announces Carbon Offset Deal

Pacific Forest Trust Announces Carbon Offset Deal
Natsource Asset Management bought 60,000 tons of carbon offsets on behalf of its clients from a private forest ...

Staples Stops Sourcing Paper From APP

Staples Stops Sourcing Paper From APP
Staples has joined retailers like Office Depot in no longer doing business with Asia Pulp & Paper due to ...

The Battle for IT Standards

The Battle for IT Standards
At Green Grid's first Technical Forum, many are calling for a ratings standard that would apply to their ...

JPMorgan Greens HQ

JPMorgan Greens HQ
JPMorgan Chase is making its 50-story headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan more environmentally-friendly, Reuters reports, ...

Dolby, Kodak, Sundance and Kerasotes Helping to Green the Film Biz

Dolby, Kodak, Sundance and Kerasotes Helping to Green the Film Biz
In ways great and small, the film industry is greening up the business, according to this Film Journal ...

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
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
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

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

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

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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