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Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions
Of the 20 shareholder resolutions filed with companies by Domini Social Investments for the 2008 proxy season, six concerned ...

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced an online Innovation Hotel, to gather feedback from travelers about "green" features that ...

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows
Efficiency Vermont, an independent nonprofit provider of energy-efficient services, has helped close to 60 percent of the state's electricity ...

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide is introducing Element Hotels, a green hotel chain, scheduled to open this July ...

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose
Energy efficiency was the winning bidder in the construction of the first new building eBay has built in its ...

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 ...

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Academics and researchers from Intel and Microsoft are putting the Internet under the microscope, developing strategies to cut the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel

Airlines Add Minutes To Flights, Save Millions On Fuel
Airlines are slowing down and saving millions on fuel, The Associated Press reports. Southwest Airlines says it will save ...

Mobile Carriers Seek Lower Emissions

Mobile Carriers Seek Lower Emissions
Mobile carriers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency, PCWorld reports. Reducing the cost of running mobile networks ...

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 ...

LCD TV Assoc. Launches Green Logo Program

LCD TV Assoc. Launches Green Logo Program
The LCD TV Association has launched its GreenTV logo program to help tune in LCD TV manufacturers and brands to reducing ...

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings
Taco Bell plans to install new "Grill-To-Order" cooking machines in all of their locations to reduce water and energy use and improve ...

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 ...

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and Environmental Defense Fund announced a new partnership to help ...

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies

IBM Develops Datacenter Energy Reduction Software, Strategies
IBM announced new energy-management software, an expansion of its energy certificates program, and an energy benchmark to help ...

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners
The Uptime Institute, a research-based think-tank and advisor on business and technology issues related to computing and energy efficiency, ...

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 ...

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

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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
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
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

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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