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Wal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard

Wal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard
Wal-Mart's packaging scorecard, that rates suppliers on their sustainability, has gone live. The idea was unveiled at ...

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable
Last week, during the annual three-day Winter Market at the San Francisco Design Center, the emphasis was not only ...

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting
Cree Inc. announced that the City of Austin joined the LED City program to deploy and promote ...

Mitsubishi CEO Takes On Role Of Chief Sustainability Officer

Mitsubishi CEO Takes On Role Of Chief Sustainability Officer
Mitsubishi has announced that President and CEO, Ryoichi Ueda, has also been appointed as Chief Sustainability Officer for the company's North ...

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry
EU officials have acknowledged that a new plan to tighten greenhouse gas admissions will take a toll on the competiveness of some ...

Know Your Supply Chain, Know Yourself

Know Your Supply Chain, Know Yourself
Despite demands by CEOs and marketing departments for greener operations, a surprising number of companies are not measuring the impact of their ...

New California GHG Rules Affect Large Emitters, Supply Chains

New California GHG Rules Affect Large Emitters, Supply Chains
The California Air Resources Board has passed mandatory reporting regulations that require annual reporting from the largest facilities in the state, ...

U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade

U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade
United States Steel Corporation is considering a $1 billion capital investment program at its Clairton plant coke making operation near ...

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006
Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 1.5 percent. GHG emissions were 7,075.6 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent in ...

IBM Turns Scrap Semiconductor Wafers Into Silicon For Solar Industry

IBM Turns Scrap Semiconductor Wafers Into Silicon For Solar Industry
IBM is repurposing scrap semiconductor wafers - thin discs of silicon material used to imprint patterns that make finished semiconductor chips for ...

California Air Board Approves Measures To Reduce Emissions

California Air Board Approves Measures To Reduce Emissions
The California Air Resources Board has approved six measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sacramento Bee. The ...

Alcan Releases Corporate Sustainability Report

Alcan Releases Corporate Sustainability Report
Alcan has released its 2007 Corporate Sustainability Report, CSRWire reports. The report builds on the 2006 report with updated 2007 content, ...

Japan Utilities, Steel Makers Buy UN Carbon Credits

Japan Utilities, Steel Makers Buy UN Carbon Credits
Tokyo Electric Power and Nippon Steel are among more than 70 utilities and steel makers that have agreed to buy more United ...

Steel Industry To Report CO2 Emissions

Steel Industry To Report CO2 Emissions
The steel industry has endorsed a global approach as the best way for steel to help address climate change, The International Iron ...

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk
Ninety-five percent of companies that consider climate change to present a commercial risk have implemented a GHG reduction program with a specific ...

Fedex Kinko’s, Staples Receive Top Grades On Forest-Related Paper Practices

Fedex Kinko’s, Staples Receive Top Grades On Forest-Related Paper Practices
The forest-related paper practices of the five largest office supply companies are the subject of a new report, Green Grades: A Report ...

ICS: Global Regulations Needed To Cut Ship Emissions

ICS: Global Regulations Needed To Cut Ship Emissions
The chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping says the UN must enforce global regulations if the industry is to cut ...

BP Backs Down On Higher Lake Michigan Discharge Limits

BP Backs Down On Higher Lake Michigan Discharge Limits
BP says it will not invoke provisions of a new permit that allows it to release significantly more ammonia and suspended solids into ...

DOE Releases RFI On Industrial Energy Efficiency

DOE Releases RFI On Industrial Energy Efficiency
The Department of Enery has released a Request For Information on reducing industrial energy intensity.  Section 106 of the Energy Policy ...

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Water Sustainability - What Can The Past Teach Us For The Future?

Water Sustainability - What Can The Past Teach Us For The Future?

Sustaining water resources has been an important factor in the development and survival of civilizations. The ability to use water in sufficient ... continue »

Are Consumers Falling Off The Green Wagon, And Should We Care?
Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!
Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Corporate CSR Skepticism Fueled by ‘Greenwashing Washout’

Corporate CSR Skepticism Fueled by ‘Greenwashing Washout’

With the eco-world on overdrive, overall skepticism in companies' corporate social responsibility initiatives is higher among LOHAS consumers, the portion of the ...

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‘Greenfluencers’ Are Small But Powerful Group Of Consumers
Carbon Market Worth $59 Billion In H1 2008
Mobile Phone Manufacturers Drop Ball On Recycling
Ceres On The Financial Sector’s Reaction To Climate Change

Ceres On The Financial Sector’s Reaction To Climate Change

Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, talks about what the financial sector is doing to tackle climate change....

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Frog’s Leap Winery Embraces Green Strategies
Leading Tech Companies Discuss Green Data Center Trends
PG&E Leads On Environmental And Sustainability Ed
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Corporate CSR Skepticism Fueled by ‘Greenwashing Washout’

WM Unveils ‘Pay To Recycle’ CFL Program - Will Consumers Buy?

FTC Examines Green Building, New Green Guides ‘Definitely’ In 2009

Emissions

Gore Calls For 100% Clean Energy by 2018, Keeps Straight Face

EU Harnesses Govt Spending Power to Support Green Products

Nordstrom Doubles Square Footage, Cuts Energy Consumption

Hi-Tech

‘Green Computing’ Vague, Misleading

5 IT Vendors Get New Recycling, Asset Disposal Certification

Leading Tech Companies Discuss Green Data Center Trends

Efficiency

Green GM Dealership In Detroit Cuts Energy More Than 50%

Stoel Rives Launches ‘Go Green Initiative’

Small and Midsize Firms Moving Towards Green Supply Chains

Manufacturing

Energy Audit Saves Haynes $500K

Bombardier Slashes CO2 Emissions

Cotton Inc. Says New FTC Green Guides Needed

Carbon Offsets/RECs

CDW’s Wisconsin Hosting Centers Go Green

Firm Adds ‘Renewable Energy Surchage’ To Customer Bills

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

CSR Reports

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Major Players

Alcoa Inks Hydropower Contract

Con-Way Leads SmartWay On Fuel Efficiency

Johnson Controls, IBM Develop Software For Data Center Management

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