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

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues
In an article in AdvertisingAge, Adam Werbach, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, says that with a tougher regulatory environment, and ...

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money
As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

Utility-Based Efficiency Programs Could Cut Energy Use 7-11 Percent

Utility-Based Efficiency Programs Could Cut Energy Use 7-11 Percent
Energy efficiency improvements in the U.S. electric power sector could reduce electric consumption by 7 to 11 percent more ...

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint
The entire lifecycle of every copy of Discover Magazine produced costs 2.1 pounds in Co2 emissions, the magazine ...

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million
Hilton Hotels says it has delivered energy savings of over 10 percent last year across more than 80 hotels ...

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations are paying more attention to energy efficiency than they were just a year ...

Thin Clients Trump PCs On Energy Consumption

Thin Clients Trump PCs On Energy Consumption
The choice of thin clients over PCs on the business desktop has reduced CO2 emissions in Western Europe by 166,000 tonnes in ...

Will Recession Derail Your CSR Efforts?

Will Recession Derail Your CSR Efforts?
Two major corporate social responsibility questions will be faced during the economic downturn, according to Ethical Corporation. Will consumers ...

Yahoo Launches ‘Green Screen’ Energy-Use Monitor

Yahoo Launches ‘Green Screen’ Energy-Use Monitor
In order to engage employees on environmental issues, Yahoo has launched a "Green Screen," an interactive energy monitoring display ...

Marks & Spencer To Charge For Plastic Bags

Marks & Spencer To Charge For Plastic Bags
Marks & Spencer is rolling out a 5p charge for plastic bags in its UK stores from ...

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 ...

Wal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard

Wal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard
Wal-Mart's packaging scorecard, that rates suppliers on their sustainability, has gone live. The idea was unveiled at ...

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts
According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, ...

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable
Last week, during the annual three-day Winter Market at the San Francisco Design Center, the emphasis was not only ...

Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2

Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2
Air France said it plans to spend almost $3 billion a year through 2020 on modernizing its fleet of ...

Food Markets Getting Greener and More Sensual

Food Markets Getting Greener and More Sensual
Americans are turning more to food that benefits both their health and the environment. At the same time, ...

Online Eco-Label Directory Launched

Online Eco-Label Directory Launched
Canadian start up Big Room Inc.says it has launched the world's biggest independent directory of ecolabels. Available through ...

Alcoa Wants To Increase Aluminum Recycling

Alcoa Wants To Increase Aluminum Recycling
Alcoa announced a goal to raise the industry's used beverage can rate in North America from 52 percent ...

Cisco To Implement Department-Level Carbon Quotas

Cisco To Implement Department-Level Carbon Quotas
Cisco plans to launch a new program that will give each department within its business a carbon quota, BusinessGreen reports. The ...

67% Of Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Power

67% Of Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Power
Sixty-seven percent of consumers polled across six countries - Australia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States - ...

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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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