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Coordinated Sustainability Intelligence Generates Potential Tax Benefits

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 ...

October 18, 2009

Greenpeace Calls Noel Kempff Climate Action Project a Carbon Scam

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 ...

October 16, 2009

Disney, Microsoft, Google Viewed as Most Reputable Firms

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 ...

October 16, 2009

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

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 ...

October 16, 2009

Timberland Cuts Emissions 19%

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 ...

October 15, 2009

From Carbon Credits to Water Quality Trading

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 ...

October 15, 2009

Thales Cuts Energy Use 10%, CO2 Emissions 4%

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 ...

October 14, 2009

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

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 ...

October 14, 2009

Auction Recommended for California’s Allocation of Emission Allowances

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, ...

October 10, 2009

Soros Throws $1B into Cleantech

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 ...

October 10, 2009

Colleges Get Sustainability Report Card

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 ...

October 9, 2009

IBM, Intel, HSBC, Unilever, Xerox Top Covalence Ethical Rankings

IBM, Intel, HSBC, Unilever, Xerox Top Covalence Ethical Rankings

IBM garnered the top spot in Covalence's ethical ranking of multinational companies. The ranking looks at 541 companies across 18 sectors. This year, Covalence added two ...

October 8, 2009

L’Oreal Cuts Water Use, GHG Emissions More Than 6%

L’Oreal Cuts Water Use, GHG Emissions More Than 6%

L'Oreal bolstered its commitment to an eco-responsible business model by reducing energy and water consumption, waste and CO2 emissions in 2008, according to the company's fifth ...

October 8, 2009

PacifiCorp Tries to Reduce Incentive for Small Wind Developers

PacifiCorp Tries to Reduce Incentive for Small Wind Developers

Companies that produce less than 10 megawatts of wind power may be denied the full rate that PacifiCorp pays other ...

October 8, 2009

Costco’s 2008 Emissions Totaled 1.34M Tons

Costco’s 2008 Emissions Totaled 1.34M Tons

Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions at warehouse club Costco totaled 1.34 million tons of CO2 equivalents in 2008, according to the company's ...

October 7, 2009

EIA Projects 2009 Emissions Reduction of 29M Metric Tons

EIA Projects 2009 Emissions Reduction of 29M Metric Tons

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects CO2 emissions from the commercial and residential sectors to be 29 million metric tons lower in 2009, or just over ...

October 7, 2009

Pfizer Exceeds Emissions Reduction Goals, Misses Clean Energy Target

Pfizer Exceeds Emissions Reduction Goals, Misses Clean Energy Target

Pfizer has achieved three of its four public environmental goals to reduce emissions, according to the company's 2009 corporate responsibility report (PDF). The pharmaceutical company ...

October 7, 2009

Merck Slashes Energy Demand by 25%, Water Use by 15%

Merck Slashes Energy Demand by 25%, Water Use by 15%

Merck has achieved and exceeded its corporate goal to reduce energy demand by 25 percent from a 2004 baseline and its water use by 15 ...

October 2, 2009

Tariff on Solar Imports May be Challenged

Tariff on Solar Imports May be Challenged

A recent decision to impose tariffs on a type of Chinese solar panels could eventually extend to other such imports, raising the cost of ...

October 2, 2009

Steelcase, Whirlpool Top Furniture, Appliance Climate Ratings

Steelcase, Whirlpool Top Furniture, Appliance Climate Ratings

Steelcase, Herman Miller and Masco lead the latest Climate Counts rating of furniture suppliers (above), while Whirlpool, LG, Bosch/Siemens and AB ...

October 2, 2009

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