Finance & Reporting

Energy-Savings Claims Don’t Add Up for Microsoft’s Windows 7

Microsoft is touting its energy-saving features with the new Windows 7 operating system, but is not making any specific claims about how much power Windows 7 ...

WWF to Screen Forest Carbon Investments

WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) plans to launch investment screening guidelines for financial investors in the upcoming months to encourage support for responsible ...

Sodexo Helps Customers Cut Energy, Water Consumption

Sodexo, an integrated facilities management services company, has outlined several key environmental projects at customer locations in its North America 2008-2009 Corporate Citizenship Report ...

Lilly Meets Energy-Efficiency Goals Ahead of Schedule

Eli Lilly, a global pharmaceutical company, has reached its energy goal two years early, improving its energy intensity (energy used per dollar of sales) by ...

Oregon Buildings Upgrade Energy Efficiency

The city of Portland, along with Portland Community College (PCC) and other county facilities, are receiving $7.2 million in federal stimulus money for energy-efficient building upgrades ...

U.S. Adds Nearly 1,700 MW of Wind Capacity in Q3

The U.S. wind energy industry has installed 1,649 megawatts (MW) of new power generating capacity in the third quarter, which is higher than either the second ...

P&G Cuts CO2 Emissions and Water In Half Since 2002

The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) has reduced (per unit of production) water consumption by 52 percent, energy usage by 48 percent, CO2 emissions by ...

News of Chamber’s Climate Change Shift a Hoax

A press release purporting to be from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 19 said that the chamber was ...

CSC Targets 30% Energy Reduction

CSC, a global IT services provider, has taken steps over the past year to ensure a sustainable environment by focusing on programs such as energy reduction, ...

Coordinated Sustainability Intelligence Generates Potential Tax Benefits

An evolution in green IT is under way as it rounds the bend from a siloed cost-reduction strategy to an enabler of corporate responsibility ...

Greenpeace Calls Noel Kempff Climate Action Project a Carbon Scam

Greenpeace released a new report that calls into question the Noel Kempff Climate Action Project (NKCAP) aimed at saving Bolivia's rainforests, stating the project ...

Disney, Microsoft, Google Viewed as Most Reputable Firms

Walt Disney Co. took the top spot in the Boston College-Reputation Institute 2009 CSR Index, which generally showed financial companies ...

USPS to Cut GHG Emissions 20%, Energy Use 30%

The U.S. Postal Service voluntarily conducted an inventory of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to establish a baseline for future annual evaluations to help meet ...

Timberland Cuts Emissions 19%

Timberland reduced its emissions by 4,426 metric tons from 2007 to 2008, or about 19 percent, according to the company's 2007-08 CSR ...

From Carbon Credits to Water Quality Trading

Similar to a carbon cap-and-trade scheme, a forthcoming water quality trading program will allow emitters to purchase pollution reduction credits from another source. The Electric Power ...

Thales Cuts Energy Use 10%, CO2 Emissions 4%

By using cleaner energy and employee's efforts to reduce energy consumption, Thales has achieved a ten percent reduction in fossil fuel consumption and a 3.8 ...

Investors Pressure GM, Boeing, Deere, Xerox to Quit U.S. Chamber

Trying to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its position on climate change, an investors group ...

Auction Recommended for California’s Allocation of Emission Allowances

Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector under a cap-and-trade system in California poses significant policy questions about how to allocate tradable emission allowances, ...

Soros Throws $1B into Cleantech

Influential investor George Soros is a big believer in the future of clean tech and energy efficiency - so much so that he has ...

Colleges Get Sustainability Report Card

The Sustainable Endowments Institute has released its 2010 College Sustainability Report Card comparing 322 schools across the U.S. on how "green" they are, reports ...