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Expert Advice on Green Storage System

Expert Advice on Green Storage System
With rising energy prices, green data centers are becoming more of an economic imperative instead of simply an environmentally-friendly ...

“Virtual Water” Content Of Products Measured

“Virtual Water” Content Of Products Measured
The concept of "virtual water" reveals the amounts contained in the products we consume, Reuters reports. The concept can build awareness in ...

Speedo Saves With Sustainable Packaging

Speedo Saves With Sustainable Packaging
Speedo announced its goggles will be packaged in sustainable cardboard, Packagingnews.co.uk reports. The new packaging is 100 percent recyclable ...

Ford Researchers Create 40% Soy-Based Foam

Ford Researchers Create 40% Soy-Based Foam
Ford Motor Company announced that its researchers have formulated the chemistry to replace 40 percent of the standard ...

Windows Don’t Have To Be Weak Link In Facility Energy Management

Windows Don’t Have To Be Weak Link In Facility Energy Management
Bruce Lang, VP of marketing & business development at Southwall Technologies Inc., writes in FacilityManagement.com that window glass ...

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Tesco Saves 2 Billion Plastic Bags

Tesco Saves 2 Billion Plastic Bags
Tesco recently announced it has saved 2 billion plastic bags in about two years without adding a bag ...

Fairchild Semiconductor Expands ‘Green’ Effort with Global Team

Fairchild Semiconductor Expands ‘Green’ Effort with Global Team
Fairchild Semiconductor has formed a global Energy and Environmental Design Team to identify energy-conservation projects at its major manufacturing ...

North Face Announces more Green Initiatives

North Face Announces more Green Initiatives
The North Face is celebrating its 40th anniversary by celebrating mother nature, and is coming out with a ...

Aon Latest Insurer To Launch Green Building Program

Aon Latest Insurer To Launch Green Building Program
Aon launched the Aon Green Building Property Program this week. As an enhancement to the company's Global Property ...

Patagonia Campagn Asks Customers to ‘Vote the Environment’

Patagonia Campagn Asks Customers to ‘Vote the Environment’
Patagonia launched its Vote The Environment campaign this week, in advance of the presidential election this November. ...

Environmentalists Win Big at Mass. Statehouse

Environmentalists Win Big at Mass. Statehouse
Many bills were crushed during the Legislature's 19-month session but environmentalist have racked up win after win at the ...

Florida Crystals In The Middle Of Debate To Save Everglades

Florida Crystals In The Middle Of Debate To Save Everglades
Florida's plan to save the Everglades by buying United States Sugar's land could depend on the cooperation of Florida ...

15 More R.R. Donnelley Facilities Receive SFI Certification

15 More R.R. Donnelley Facilities Receive SFI Certification
R.R. Donnelley & Sons announced that 15 more of its printing facilities across the U.S. have achieved ...

Coke Cuts Water Use Ratio 3% In 2007

Coke Cuts Water Use Ratio 3% In 2007
Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third Corporate Responsibility and ...

Direct Marketing Group Cutting Down on Paper

Direct Marketing Group Cutting Down on Paper
A group of direct-marketing companies are banding together with their corporate clients to make direct mail, an inherently unsustainable ...

Businesses Show Government How To ‘Decarbonize The Economy’

Businesses Show Government How To ‘Decarbonize The Economy’
Governments are lagging behind in efforts to curb climate change and reduce carbon emissions while businesses understand there is ...

Wal-Mart Joins WWF to Combat Illegal Logging

Wal-Mart Joins WWF to Combat Illegal Logging
Wal-Mart Stores has become a member of the Global Forest & Trade Network, a WWF initiative to combat ...

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education
During 2007, 452 presidents and chancellors committed to climate neutrality by signing the American College & University Presidents' ...

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007
In its Global Responsibility Report for 2007, JohnsonDiversey, a provider of professional cleaning and hygiene products and systems, ...

Small Businesses Reducing Energy Costs

Small Businesses Reducing Energy Costs
With electricity rates rising, small businesses are increasingly looking for ways to lower their energy costs, the Wall ...

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Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

True or false? “Until corporate environmental best practices are considered as confidential as other company IP, they are clearly not driving competitive ... continue »

Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Certain fast-moving, environmentally-friendly consumable products are being used by a significant portion of the U.S. general population, according to the Natural ...

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Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
CEOs Leading Champions Of Corporate Green Initiatives
Gamers Checking Out Green Cars
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Greentech investment experts at GoingGreen discuss how much it will cost the U.S. economy to go carbon neutral....

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Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
Vinod Khosla On The Need For Clean Tech To Deliver Real Results
CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Sharp And TBS Issue ‘Lights Out Challenge’

Emissions

Sprint Sets Goal Of Cutting GHG Emissions 15%

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

Hi-Tech

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency

Efficiency

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

Chipotle Restaurant Features Wind Turbine

Ben & Jerry’s Tests ‘Greener’ Freezer

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Financial Turmoil May Boost Energy Efficiency Initiatives

GAO: CO2-Offset Market Lacks Credibility

CSR Reports

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Honda Reduces 700 kg of CO2 Emissions Per Vehicle Produced

Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool

Major Players

FedEx Hybrid Truck Plan Hits Speed Bump

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

AT&T Installing 1 Megawatt Solar System

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