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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 ...

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies
The Chemical industry places 9 out of 10 in Covalence's EthicalQuote ranking (PDF), ahead of Oil & Gas. In 2007, ...

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts
According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, ...

L.A. Plastic Bag Ban Unravels

L.A. Plastic Bag Ban Unravels
Los Angeles County supervisors retreated from a threat to ban plastic bags and instead opted for a volunteer program ...

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site
Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants ...

Oil Spill Delays Crab Season

Oil Spill Delays Crab Season
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive-order suspending all fishing and crabbing for human consumption in areas affected by last week's ...

Greenpeace Slams iPhone Over Hazardous Chemicals

Greenpeace Slams iPhone Over Hazardous Chemicals
Greenpeace says Apple's new iPhone contains a number of hazardous chemicals, InformationWeek reports. "Apple is not making early progress toward its ...

Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case

Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case
Home Depot is paying nearly $10 million to settle a civil case filed by state and Los Angeles County prosecutors over the ...

Sony GHG Emissions Jumped 17% In 2006

Sony GHG Emissions Jumped 17% In 2006
Sony has issued its CSR Report 2007. The report provides coverage of the CSR activities being carried out by the Sony Group ...

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations
Equistar Chemicals, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will spend more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup to address air, water ...

Dell Calls Out PC Makers On Recycling, Releases Sustainability Report

Dell Calls Out PC Makers On Recycling, Releases Sustainability Report
Dell says it's ahead of schedule to achieve a multi-year goal of recovering 275 million pounds of computer equipment by 2009. Dell ...

PC Makers Catch Green Wave

PC Makers Catch Green Wave
PC and electronics makers have never given much thought to environmental issues, USAToday reports. That is, until now. For the first ...

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such ...

U.S. Limits Clean Water Law Enforcement

U.S. Limits Clean Water Law Enforcement
The U.S. law that fights water pollution will now apply only to bodies of water large enough for boats to use, and their ...

Recent RFPs

Recent RFPs
April 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy  ...

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green Topics

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green Topics
Discovery Channel is launching the first-ever 24-hour TV network dedicated solely to green lifestyle programming. The initiative, launching next year, includes a ...

Akzo Nobel Releases 2006 CSR Report

Akzo Nobel Releases 2006 CSR Report
Akzo Nobel has published its Annual and Corporate Social Responsibility Reports for 2006. This is the first time that the ...

Toshiba Expands Recycling, Joins EPEAT

Toshiba Expands Recycling, Joins EPEAT
Toshiba has launched a free computer take-back program. The company also has joined the Green Electronics Council's Electronic Product Environmental ...

Green Party Warns of Vista ‘Landfill Effect’

Green Party Warns of Vista ‘Landfill Effect’
The UK's Green Party claims Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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