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Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives

CRO has compiled a list of ways companies can stay responsible during an economic slowdown: Make corporate responsibility initiatives a bigger priority ...

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) expects to go online September 10, News.com reports. The blind online ...

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

The conclusions of a report released in March and conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and ...

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines

The Canadian province of Alberta received $25 million less from carbon-emissions fines in the past eight months than it ...

US Airlines Could Face $9 Billion Carbon Bill In 2020

Proposed U.S. emission-trading legislation could leave airlines with a $9 billion annual bill in carbon costs, FlightGlobal.com reports. Should ...

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change

British economist and academic Lord Nicholas Stern has published a set of proposals (PDF) for a global deal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Price Sensitivity of Environmentally-Friendly Products

According to Natural Marketing Institute’s 2007 LOHAS Consumer Trends Database, price is still a very important factor for determining purchase propensity. ...

JPMorgan Targets 20% Emissions Cut

JPMorgan Chase says that by increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating ...

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

National Grid Sets 80% GHG Reduction Goal, Adopts Carbon Budgets

National Grid is increasing its target of reducing company-wide greenhouse gas emissions from 60 percent to 80 percent by ...

No Emissions Goal At Major Economics Meeting

No fixed targets were set at the two-day Major Economies Meetings in Paris which brought together delegates from 16 ...

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It

In a Rose Garden speech today, President Bush acknowledged the need to put curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions and set ...

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010

KPMG has set a goal of reducing its member firms' combined carbon footprint 25 percent by the year ...

EPA: GHG Emissions Down In 2006

U.S. emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent overall from the previous year, according to the national greenhouse gas ...

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market

The California Climate Action Registry has launched Climate Action Reserve, which hopes to create standards for the voluntary ...

Senate Extends Renewable Energy Tax Credits, Hurdles Remain

The U.S. Senate has voted to extend tax credits for wind-power and solar-energy projects, adding them to a major ...

Today's News

Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives

Used Fry Grease Rich Target For Grease Gangs…Seriously

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

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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 »

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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

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The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

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

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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