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U.S. Consumers: Companies Should Pay To Manage Climate Change

U.S. Consumers: Companies Should Pay To Manage Climate Change
The fifth EcoPinion Survey from EcoAlign finds that consumers generally agree on the definition of climate change, the importance of reducing ...

CO2 Regulations Could Affect 1 Million U.S. Companies

CO2 Regulations Could Affect 1 Million U.S. Companies
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging Congress to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean ...

Emissions Reductions Could Increase Company Value By 80%

Emissions Reductions Could Increase Company Value By 80%
Emissions reductions will create business opportunities and risks, and companies' futures will depend on how well prepared they are ...

CDP: PPG, Exelon, Cisco Among U.S. Leaders On Carbon Disclosure

CDP: PPG, Exelon, Cisco Among U.S. Leaders On Carbon Disclosure
Seventy-four percent of Global 500 companies reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project are now reporting emissions reduction targets, showing ...

Saab Plants Trees To Placate Australian Ad Board

Saab Plants Trees To Placate Australian Ad Board
A year after Saab was accused of Greenwashing, Saab Australia's parent company, GM Holden, has been successfully ...

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Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility

Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Roughly 38 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote that the only societal responsibility a business has is to increase profits. There ...

Visa Launches Carbon Offset Card For Business

Visa Launches Carbon Offset Card For Business
Visa Europe is launching a new ‘green’ Visa card to business cardholders in industry and Government across Europe. This ...

Kettle Foods LEED Gold Plant Sees 20% in Energy Savings

Kettle Foods LEED Gold Plant Sees 20% in Energy Savings
Kettle Foods opened a LEED Gold certified food manufacturing plant a year ago. Now the company is seeing ...

Kraft Cuts Natural Gas Purchases With Waste-To-Energy Projects

Kraft Cuts Natural Gas Purchases With Waste-To-Energy Projects
Kraft waste-to-energy projects have resulted in cutting natural gas purchases at manufacturing facilities in Lowville and Campbell, New York. "This ...

German Industry: EU’s CO2 Plan Brings Sky-high Carbon Taxes

German Industry: EU’s CO2 Plan Brings Sky-high Carbon Taxes
Energy user's group VIK recently told Reuters that Germany must push for change in how financial burdens of ...

Planning a Greener Supply Chain

Planning a Greener Supply Chain
Andrew Kinder, director of products marketing for Supply Chain Mangement at Infor, writes in IndustryWeek that U.S. manufacturers ...

Power of Green in Marketers’ Hands

Power of Green in Marketers’ Hands
It's not engineers, lawyers or legislators that have the most power to clean up the environment. Instead, Jacquelyn A. ...

UK’s 50 Best Green Companies

UK’s 50 Best Green Companies
Times Online announces its list of the 50 best green companies in the UK, which includes companies that ...

Study Links Carbon Management, CSR with Shareholder Value

Study Links Carbon Management, CSR with Shareholder Value
According to a study by Verizon Business and IR magazine, 87 percent of investor relations professionals say they ...

GE: Extend Clean Energy Tax Credits Or We’ll Go To Germany, China

GE: Extend Clean Energy Tax Credits Or We’ll Go To Germany, China
General Electric Energy's John Krenicki recently pleaded with senators to extend tax credits for renewable energy (see transcript below), ...

4 Green IT Tips

4 Green IT Tips
IBM Software Group's vice president, Chris O'Connor recently spoke with ZDNet and offered advice on how companies can ...

Greenpeace: Less Toxic iPod Nano Rocks

Greenpeace: Less Toxic iPod Nano Rocks
Apple has introduced the new fourth generation iPod nano, which CEO Steve Jobs says is the the ...

JohnsonDiversey Investing $19M To Reach 8% GHG Reduction

JohnsonDiversey Investing $19M To Reach 8% GHG Reduction
JohnsonDiversey announced it has joined the World Wildlife Fund Climate Savers program. By 2013, the company says it ...

‘Global Cooling’ With White Roofs

‘Global Cooling’ With White Roofs
California scientists say white roofs can cut a building's energy use by 20 percent, and they say they ...

Google Eyes Offshore, Wave-Powered Data Centers

Google Eyes Offshore, Wave-Powered Data Centers
Google data centers may someday float on the ocean. The search giant recently filed a patent for a ...
Consumers Prefer ‘100% Natural’ Label Over ‘Organic’

Consumers Prefer ‘100% Natural’ Label Over ‘Organic’

In a study of consumer opinions of marketing claims, survey respondents identified most ...

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WWF Ranks US 7th Among G8 on Climate Scorecard
Growth of Global Carbon Emissions Cut in Half
Electricity, Heat, Transportation Cause 60% of Emissions

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Carbon Management IS Information Management

Carbon Management IS Information Management

For most organizations today, sophisticated carbon management is simply not possible. At best, ... continue »

The Hope Behind The Holes In The Climate Bill
Energy Costs Rising, Regulations Imminent - Are You Ready?
Energy - It Just Doesn’t Add Up
FTC on Greenwashing: Is That All There Is?
Shaklee Discusses its Green Strategies

Shaklee Discusses its Green Strategies

Shaklee Corp. was recognized recently ...

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Sprint Tackles Data Center Improvements
Building a Bridge from Recycled Plastics
The Netherlands Ponders Floating City Architecture
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Marketing

Consumers Prefer ‘100% Natural’ Label Over ‘Organic’

Green Seal Adds First U.S. Standard for Personal Care Products

Show Sustainability Sales Success to Climb Corporate Ranks

Emissions

Cisco Wants to Transform Energy Demand and Use with Smart Buildings

Sony Europe Goes to 100% Renewable Energy

EPA Approves California Emissions Waiver

Hi-Tech

Sony Ericsson Joins Nokia, Samsung as ‘Greener’ Electronics Makers

Online Calculator Gauges IT Data Center Costs and Carbon Footprint

Microsoft Reduces Windows 7 Packaging

Efficiency

Black & Veatch HQ to Showcase Sustainability

Raytheon Meets Green Goals with IT Help

Yahoo! Dropping Carbon Offsets for Greener Data Centers

Manufacturing

Electronics Firms Face Off Against Mandated Recycling Programs

Leading Mobile Phone Makers Agree to Develop Universal Charger

Panasonic Cuts Manufacturing Emissions With Simulation Tech

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Sustainable Agriculture Requires Farm Modernization, Free Markets, Tech Adoption

Audi Promotes Clean Diesel via Facebook, Carbon Offsets

CBO: Cap-And-Trade to Cost $175 Per Household

CSR Reports

SAB Miller Targets 25% Reduction in Water Used in Brewing

Molson Coors Cuts CO2 Emissions by 12%

Successful Design in CSR Reporting, Part 2

Major Players

Fuel Cell Systems to Power 30% of Coca-Cola NY Facility

Australia Joins Carbon Reduction Label Scheme

CSX to Cut CO2 Emissions by 8%

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