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IBM Touts Project Big Green To Media Executives

IBM Touts Project Big Green To Media Executives
IBM touted Project Big Green to the media and entertainment industry at the Hollywood Goes Green conference earlier this week. The ...

Weyerhaeuser At Bali Business Day

Weyerhaeuser At Bali Business Day
Yesterday we reported on Weyerhaeuser and photosynthesis as a natural solution for carbon capture and storage. Here, Weyerhaeuser's senior vice president ...

Cradle-To-Consumer Environmental Impacts Explored

Cradle-To-Consumer Environmental Impacts Explored
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society has developed a model to assess the cradle-to-consumer environmental impacts from ...

IBM, Dell, Others Say IT Key To Tackling Climate Change

IBM, Dell, Others Say IT Key To Tackling Climate Change
Information and communication technologies  are largely contributing to climate change but also hold the key to tackling it,  industry leaders told a ...

Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners

Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners
Global Green USA has announced the winners of its Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards. Albanese Organization won ...

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Exhibitors Earmark Money For Green Options

Exhibitors Earmark Money For Green Options
New research from Exhibitor Magazine shows interest in green and sustainable exhibiting is high and growing among both exhibitors and suppliers, ...

Dell Discusses Green Initiatives At OpenWorld 2007

Dell Discusses Green Initiatives At OpenWorld 2007
Michael Dell's Oracle OpenWorld 2007 keynote. This is the section where he discusses green initiatives in the data center including plans ...

Hi-Tech Goes Green

Hi-Tech Goes Green
A panel of industry experts discuss the latest and greatest technologies that are going green. Including moderator Doug Merritt, Executive Vice President, ...

Catalyst Paper, Doubletree Win Awards For Green Efforts

Catalyst Paper, Doubletree Win Awards For Green Efforts
Nonprofit Metafore announced the winners of the Metafore Innovation Awards at the Green Power Corporate Climate Response Conference. The award theme ...

Icelandic Glacial Wins Sustainability Award

Icelandic Glacial Wins Sustainability Award
Icelandic Glacial Natural Spring Water took the top environmental prize at this year's BottledWaterWorld awards in Mexico. With the industry facing ...

Ceres Takes Applications For 2007 Sustainability Report Awards

Ceres Takes Applications For 2007 Sustainability Report Awards
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Ceres, a U.S.-based coalition of investors and environmental groups, are calling for submissions to ...

94% Of Supply Chain Professionals Rate Green Issues As Business Priority

94% Of Supply Chain Professionals Rate Green Issues As Business Priority
With up to 75 percent of a company’s carbon footprint coming from transportation and logistics, the focus of supply chain greening is beginning ...

Andrew Winston Brings Eco-Salon To Denver, Portland

Andrew Winston Brings Eco-Salon To Denver, Portland
Andrew Winston, co-author of “Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage” is ...

Don’t Dive Headfirst Into Green Waters

Don’t Dive Headfirst Into Green Waters
The home furnishings industry’s key manufacturers, retailers and sustainability leaders, taking part in a recent discussion about sustainability practices, encouraged attendees not to dive headfirst ...

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 ...

Natural Products Trade Show Plants Green Direct Mail Pieces

Natural Products Trade Show Plants Green Direct Mail Pieces
Natural products trade show producer New Hope Natural Media goes a long way to make its marketing appeal to its green ...

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 ...

VeriSign Sponsors Live Earth, Esurance Offsets Concert-Goers Emissions

VeriSign Sponsors Live Earth, Esurance Offsets Concert-Goers Emissions
VeriSign has been named "wireless messaging platform partner" of Live Earth. Concert viewers can text a key word pertaining to one of ...

Freescale’s Mayer: Industry’s Opportunities Are All Green

Freescale’s Mayer: Industry’s Opportunities Are All Green
The semiconductor industry's global opportunities are shifting to "green everything," according to Freescale Semiconductor CEO Michel Mayer,  EETimes reports. "Energy is a ...

Creative Sustainability Could Improve Sales, Market Share

Creative Sustainability Could Improve Sales, Market Share
Toyota, Timberland, Aspen Skiing, Ben & Jerry's, Flexcar and Hewlett-Packard received global citizen statuettes at Advertising Age's first Green Conference to commemorate ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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