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Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent
The Billerica, Mass.-based life-sciences equipment maker Millipore said it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over ...

Hospitals Cut Waste By Recycling Single-Use Devices

Hospitals Cut Waste By Recycling Single-Use Devices
Hospitals are starting to recycle and reuse items that are labeled for single use - scissors, scrubs, even surgical ...

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), plans to hold a ...

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics
GE sees its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics as a way to "prove to potential customers and shareholders in ...

Merck Pledges To Cut GHG Emissions 12% By 2012

Merck Pledges To Cut GHG Emissions 12% By 2012
Merck plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its global operations by 12 percent by the ...

California Considers Emissions Tax

California Considers Emissions Tax
In what could be a U.S. first, California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District is proposing to charge ...

Suburban Hospitals Make Green Strides

Suburban Hospitals Make Green Strides
Some suburban hospitals have been making great strides in greening their facilities, reports The Business Ledger.In Wheaton, Illinois, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital ...

Bayer To Spend $1.46 Billion On Green Initiatives

Bayer To Spend $1.46 Billion On Green Initiatives
Bayer has launched a group-wide Bayer Climate Program with a goal of cutting CO2 emissions from its production facilities. In the new ...

Providence Health And Services Recognized For Energy Leadership

Providence Health And Services Recognized For Energy Leadership
Since 2004, Providence Health & Services has invested more than $10 million in energy upgrades at 27 new and existing Oregon ...

Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards

Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards
Roche, Consolidated Edison and Scottish ice cream company Mackies were named winners of the inaugural FT/Citi Private Bank environmental awards, Environmental ...

Kaiser Permanente Certifies GHG Emissions

Kaiser Permanente Certifies GHG Emissions
Kaiser Permanente has certified its greenhouse gas emissions inventory with the California Climate Action Registry, becoming the first health care ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate ...

Bayer Releases Sustainability Report, Includes Indirect Emissions

Bayer Releases Sustainability Report, Includes Indirect Emissions
Bayer says it is expanding its commitment to sustainability and the scope of its reporting on the subject. In a new Sustainable ...

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 ...

Green Building Movement Penetrating Health Care Industry

Green Building Movement Penetrating Health Care Industry
Sixty percent of respondents to a McGraw-Hill Construction report on the health care industry's incorporation of sustainability and green building into their ...

97% Think ‘Natural’ Products Should Be Regulated

97% Think ‘Natural’ Products Should Be Regulated
MediaPost reports on research from Burt's Bees on what American women think about "natural" products. Burt’s Bees has established its own ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Abbott Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Abbott Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Abbott has released its 2006 Global Citizenship Report. As part of its efforts to protect the environment, Abbott has set five-year performance goals ...

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 ...

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
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
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

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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