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Dell Fends Off Blog Critics With Sustainable Packaging Fixes

Dell Fends Off Blog Critics With Sustainable Packaging Fixes
Earth Day posts on blogs like The Consumerist and Gizmodo (the photo is from Gizmodo) prompted Dell ...
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IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing
IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and Herman Miller have found a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing, purchasing.com reports. IBM takes ...
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Pepsi’s Thinner Bottles Save Plastic, Help Environment

Pepsi’s Thinner Bottles Save Plastic, Help Environment
A 20-percent reduction in plastic used to make Pepsi's 500ml flavored non-carbonated beverage bottles has resulted in its lightest bottle yet. The ...
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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 ...
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Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World
In a depiction of some of the world's largest energy projects, Forbes.com takes readers to Bahrain, where, a few ...
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Wal-Mart Weighs In On Packaging At FTC ‘Green Guides’ Workshop

Wal-Mart Weighs In On Packaging At FTC ‘Green Guides’ Workshop
Reducing the weight of Honest Kids organic juice drink pouch bulk packs sold at Wal-Mart is one of the ...
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First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design
Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind....
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12 sustainable design ideas from nature

12 sustainable design ideas from nature
Janine Benyus provides examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. ...
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Architect Norman Foster On Green Design

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically ...
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‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century

‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Last fall, I used the term "greenwashing" in a panel discussion with business leaders in Austin, Texas. Though this is a phrase ...
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Kraft, Marks & Spencer Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners

DuPont has announced the winners of the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognized "achievements that improve the ...
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MIO Founder Jaime Salm On Sustainable Design

MIO Founder Jaime Salm On Sustainable Design
Greenerbusiness interview with Jaime Salm, founder of MIO, the sustainable design firm based out of Philadelphia....
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Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions
Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability
Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows
Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green
Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels
Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting
Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions
Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

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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

Dr. Albert Esser
Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure
Dell

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

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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

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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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