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Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards
Starbucks says that by 2010 it wants 50 percent of the energy used at its stores to come from ...

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced the winners of the Readers' Choice Awards for sustainability reporting The winning reports, as ...

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency
Colgate-Palmolive has published its sustainability report. In 2007, Colgate's global CO2 emissions were approximately 675,000 metric tons, up from 664,000 ...

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′
In its second annual stewardship report, REI has established a 2009 goal to reduce emissions by one-third from ...

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste
In its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report Motorola, Inc. highlights actions the company has taken on social, accountability and ...

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards
Ford Motor Company and The Timberland Company received the top sustainability reporting awards in an international competition organized by ...

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance
American Electric Power Co. has a plan to reduce and offset its greenhouse gas emissions. Demonstrating and deploying ...

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario
Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 in the U.S., has released its 2007/2008 sustainability report (PDF). According ...

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers
HP has issued its 2007 Global Citizenship Report and a list of its largest suppliers. According to the report, ...

Tyson Releases CSR Report

Tyson Releases CSR Report
Tyson Foods has issued a corporate responsibility report (PDF). Absolute emissions from electricity have risen from 2.69 million metric ...

Henkel Releases Sustainability Report

Henkel Releases Sustainability Report
Over the past five years, Henkel says that its energy consumption is down 21 percent, water consumption is down 15 percent, waste ...

CSR Reporting: Rainbows Versus ROI

CSR Reporting: Rainbows Versus ROI
You've heard it all before*. Someone reviews a corporate social responsibility report and complains that there are too many pictures of rainbows ...

Stora Enso Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions 20%

Stora Enso Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions 20%
Stora Enso has set a new CO2 reduction target of 20 percent by 2020. The target covers Stora Enso's ...

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%
BASF has published its Report 2007, which for the first time combines the company's financial and sustainability reporting ...

Adidas Releases CSR Report

Adidas Releases CSR Report
Adidas Group has released a corporate responsibility report (PDF). In 2007, Adidas say that all Group athletic footwear factories became ...

Nestle Releases CSR Report

Nestle Releases CSR Report
At a joint Nestle-UN Global Compact event in New York, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO of Nestle,  presented the ...

UTC Releases 2007 CSR Report, GHG Emissions Down 5%

UTC Releases 2007 CSR Report, GHG Emissions Down 5%
United Technologies Corp. has released its 2007 corporate social responsibility report (PDF). The company's environmental objective is to cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

Philips Says Green Products Represent 20% Of Sales

Philips Says Green Products Represent 20% Of Sales
Royal Philips Electronics has seen a 33 percent increase in sales of green products in 2007, as published in the company’s ...

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report
Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report. "The process of compiling information for this report has taught ...

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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
Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’

Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered ...

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HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
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

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Eastman Chemical Cuts GHG Emissions, Energy Use

Hi-Tech

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Efficiency

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons

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

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

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

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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