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SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration

SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration
SC Johnson says that powering the company's largest global manufacturing plant with cogeneration turbines that run on natural gas and ...

Sun Launches Major Data Center Push

Sun Launches Major Data Center Push
Sun has launched its Eco Innovation Initiative , which the company says can help customers improve economic and energy efficiency in the ...

Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction

Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction
Comedy Central has launched a new program to encourage audiences to lead an environmentally friendly life, reports PRWeek (via MarketingVOX). The new ...

Energy Consultants In High Demand

Energy Consultants In High Demand
Energy consultants are reporting exponential growth in the number of clients seeking advice on saving energy and money, Reuters reports. Since Steven ...

EPA: Energy Efficiency Measures Could Save U.S. Data Centers $4 Billion

EPA: Energy Efficiency Measures Could Save U.S. Data Centers $4 Billion
A new EPA report shows that data centers in the U.S. have the potential to save up to $4 billion in annual electricity ...

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Tips For Fleet Fuel Efficiency

Tips For Fleet Fuel Efficiency
PHH FirstFleet recently announced the results of  a fuel study of U.S. truck fleets in the grocery, manufacturing, fuel and retail ...

Stonyfield’s Hirshberg Predicts How Global Warming Will Affect Business, Society

Stonyfield’s Hirshberg Predicts How Global Warming Will Affect Business, Society
The economic consequences of climate change will be the dominant social and economic reality of the next 15 years, as well as the next ...

Harry Potter Sets Green Example For Publishing Industry

Harry Potter Sets Green Example For Publishing Industry
The last book in the Harry Potter series is considered within the industry to be the most environmentally friendly in publishing history ...

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 ...

Owens Corning Introduces Commercial Energy Calculator

Owens Corning Introduces Commercial Energy Calculator
Owens Corning has introduced a commercial energy calculator that Owens says demonstrates how improving the performance of the envelope and/or lighting ...

Fervor Grows For Plastic Bag Bans

Fervor Grows For Plastic Bag Bans
In a merger of environmental concern and fashion sensibility, big-name designers are introducing eco-chic grocery totes, while lawmakers in New York, Boston, ...

Coca-Cola HBC Reports On Sustainable Development

Coca-Cola HBC Reports On Sustainable Development
Coca-Cola HBC, a provider of non-alcoholic beverages, has published a sustainable development report (PDF, Report Website) on its activities in ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Microsoft Expects Windows Server 2008 To Use 20% Less Power

Microsoft Expects Windows Server 2008 To Use 20% Less Power
Microsoft is expecting Windows Server 2008 systems to use about 20 percent less power than existing Windows Server systems, ...

JohnsonDiversey Releases Responsibility Report, Reduces Virgin Plastic

JohnsonDiversey Releases Responsibility Report, Reduces Virgin Plastic
Professional cleaning and hygiene products and systems provider JohnsonDiversey has released its 2006 Global Responsibility Report (...

Companies Step Up Efforts To Trim Packaging

Companies Step Up Efforts To Trim Packaging
With Wal-Mart Stores helping to push a repackaging trend along by encouraging its 66,000 suppliers to reduce their packaging starting ...

NBC Universal Gets Large Dose Of Ecomagination

NBC Universal Gets Large Dose Of Ecomagination
NBC Universal has launched “Get On Board,” a program to reduce greenhouse gases and raise awareness. It's all part of ...

Barclays ‘Highly Unlikely’ To Meet Energy Reduction Targets

Barclays ‘Highly Unlikely’ To Meet Energy Reduction Targets
Barclays has released its 2006 corporate responsibility report (PDF).  The bank now says that it is "highly unlikely" that it will be able to ...

Exelon Reduces Electricity Use 43%

Exelon Reduces Electricity Use 43%
Chicago utility Exelon Corp. consolidated its downtown Chicago locations into one suburban location and modernized existing space to conform to U.S. Green Building ...

ColdWatt’s High-Efficiency Power Supplies Turn IT Heads

ColdWatt’s High-Efficiency Power Supplies Turn IT Heads
Replacing your existing power supplies with more efficient alternatives from ColdWatt could save $50,000 a year for a 400-server datacenter, ...

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COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

What is the No.1 event-related global communications opportunity for your carbon messaging of the next 4 years? Here are a couple of clues… •    ... continue »

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

The 3PL industry has made significant strides in establishing environmental responsibility as part of broader corporate visions, with companies reporting numerous internal ...

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Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many
Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

The U.S. beer maker Miller has a goal of zero waste in their breweries and is currently recycling 99.9% of all packaging ...

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Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Green Inc.: Conservation Organizations Compromised By Corporate Dollars

Office Depot Targets Eco-Conscious Consumers in Europe

Emissions

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Constellation Wines Installing 1.2 Megawatt Solar System

Turbine Shortage Delays Projects

Hi-Tech

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

European Data Centers Face Energy Crisis

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Efficiency

EPA Announces First WaterSense Partners of the Year

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard Drives Sustainability, Cuts GHG Emissions

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

USDA, DOE Unveil Plans to Accelerate Sustainable Biofuels Development

EU Votes For Tougher Carbon Laws

Aveda Installs Solar System at L.A. Distribution Facility

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

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