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Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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 ...

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

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 ...

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Eighty-two percent of senior finance and risk managers believe global climate change will require changes to their business models in the years ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines

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 ...

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′
In its second annual stewardship report, REI has established a 2009 goal to reduce emissions by one-third from ...

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 ...

Timberland To Release Quarterly CSR Data

Timberland To Release Quarterly CSR Data
No sooner than the Ceres coalition and the ACCA announced Timberland's award for best sustainability reporting, the company ...

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

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 ...

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards
Ford Motor Company and The Timberland Company received the top sustainability reporting awards in an international competition organized by ...

New SAS Software Identifies Sustainable Business Strategies

New SAS Software Identifies Sustainable Business Strategies
SAS for Sustainability Management is a software platform designed to help companies and organizations identify strategies that address ...

WaMu Switches 1M Accounts From Paper To E-Statements

WaMu Switches 1M Accounts From Paper To E-Statements
Through its year-long "Make A Statement, Plant A Tree" campaign, Washington Mutual Inc. has raised $1 million for ...

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance

AEP Corporate Sustainability Report Outlines Challenges, Performance
American Electric Power Co. has a plan to reduce and offset its greenhouse gas emissions. Demonstrating and deploying ...

Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave

Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave
A growing number of young companies are spending their brain power on software and financing, rather than photovoltaics, GreenTechBlog ...

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative
Enterprise Fleet Management, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, launched an environmental initiative designed to help its customers reduce greenhouse ...

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....

Today's News

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
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
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

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Hi-Tech

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Efficiency

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Manufacturing

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Major Players

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

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