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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 ...

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 ...

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism

Two days after Royal Dutch Shell posted a 25 percent increase in first quarter profit to a record $9.1 ...

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 ...

The Green Influence Factor

Research from Natural Marketing Institute's 2007 European LOHAS Consumer Trends Database, shows that culture plays a strong role in consumers' willingness ...

Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions

Russia says it has no plans to cap carbon emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to ...

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?

Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports. The aim of the ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

Vodafone Calls For 50% Reduction In Its Global Warming Emissions

Vodafone Group has announced that it will cut its CO2 emission by 50 percent by the year 2020 through increased energy ...

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 ...

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million

Hilton Hotels says it has delivered energy savings of over 10 percent last year across more than 80 hotels ...

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 ...

Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month

Carbon labels will be tested on Tesco-brand products next month, The Guardian reports. The retailer will put carbon ...

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL's parent says it's the ...

McDonald’s Trims Trips To The Landfill

McDonald's has been running a trial program at 11 Sheffield, UK restaurants to save on the rising cost of ...

Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits

Royal Dutch Shell says it will stop investing in Europe if utilities are forced to pay for emissions permits ...

Activist Group Uncovers ‘Corporate Spy’

UK anti-aviation group Plane Stupid has uncovered what it says is a corporate spy, an "activist" who in ...

UK Pushes For Mandatory Emissions Reporting

A new amendment added to the UK's Climate Change Bill will make it mandatory for companies whose stock ...

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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