Environmental & Sustainability Events
Environmental and sustainability includes events such as conferences, summits and conventions including UN Climate Change Conferences. These events are gathering places for industries, financial types, government leaders and other concerned organizations to discuss advances and solutions to environmental and sustainability issues. In addition, we also share information that come out of the events.
Marks & Spencer Launches ‘Shwopping,’ Aims to Recycle as Much as it Sells
Marks & Spencer aims to recycle as many clothes as it sells - 350 million a year - with its Shwopping campaign launched today in ...
Earth Day Briefing: Coke, Pepsi, Whole Foods, Target, Caribou Coffee
It's that time of year again. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22 companies have been unveiling green initiatives all over the place. Here's ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star Buildings, WindMade, Corrugated Packaging, WEEE
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes nine items.
The newly released list of U.S. cities with ...
Colby College is National Champion of Environmental March Madness Tournament
Colby College has been named national champion in the first-ever March Madness tournament for Environmental Studies, a competitive review of university environmental programs designed to ...
Colby, Colorado State, Purdue and RIT Make ‘Final Four’ for Environmental Studies
Colby College, Colorado State University, Purdue University and Rochester Institute of Technology have advanced to the "Final Four" round of the March Madness tournament for ...
Environmental Eight Schools Advance in March Madness Tournament for Colleges and Universities
The "Environmental Eight," those schools advancing to the second round of the Enviance and Environmental Leader-sponsored March Madness tournament for Environmental Studies, have just been ...
Sustainable 16 Colleges Tip Off in March Madness Competition
The Sustainable 16, a group of sixteen colleges and universities that demonstrate excellence in environmental academics, has been named in the first-ever Enviance, Inc. and ...
Climate Leadership Award Winners Revealed
Twenty companies, including IBM, San Diego Gas & Electric, Port of Los Angeles, SAP and UPS, were named the winners of the inaugural ...
Organizational Change: The Swiss Army Knife of Sustainability
On December 8, 2011, TSSS attendees heard from an industry veteran who has been in the field of corporate sustainability for ...
GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance
The Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say ...
Engaging Shareholders, Suppliers and Consumers in the Sustainability Industry
On November 1st, over 100 people gathered for the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series event, “Engage with the Game Changers”. Three top ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, SolarWorld, Better Buildings Challenge, Boiler MACT
Durban: U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres remains hopeful that countries can get past the years of gridlock to reach fresh, binding commitments to GHG reductions, Reuters ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17-Durban, EU Aviation Regulation, Boiler MACT, Clean Air Act
Durban: The draft plan for the United Nations Green Climate Fund - a financing system that would deliver $100 billion a year in aid to developing ...
Chicago Airports Plan Solar, Alternative Fueling, Composting
The Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) announced a series of sustainability initiatives at the 2011 Airports Going Green conference in Chicago, including plans for a ...
Best Practices: Optimizing Energy and Sustainability Strategies
Join Environmental Leader for a webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST that will cover the business drivers ...
Companies Announce Earth Day Promotions
Earth day promotions are flooding our inbox. Here are some that caught our attention.
Electronics manufacturer LG is backing the “Great American Cleanup”. Last year the country recycled 7.2 million pounds of consumer electronics during the ...
Best Practices Webinar – Energy and Environmental Management
The list of environmental issues for businesses to manage seems endless. Companies must identify and prioritize ways to tackle energy, carbon, water and waste, ...
UN Climate Conference (COP 16) Wrap up and What to Watch in 2011
This year’s Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place between ...
Boeing’s VP EHS Discusses Sustainability, Corporate Strategy
At NAEM's 2010 conference, Boeing's Mary Armstrong, VP of EHS, discussed the connection ...
A Conversation with HP: Post COP16 and Prop23
Valerie Davis, president of Green Canary Sustainability Consulting and CEO of EnviroMedia Social Marketing caught up with HP on the final night ...
