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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 ...

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

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

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

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

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing
IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and Herman Miller have found a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing, purchasing.com reports. IBM takes ...

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance
Google, Anheuser-Busch and Levi Strauss had the largest score improvement, each jumping over 20 points, in Climate Counts' ...

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

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel
Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) expects to go online September 10, News.com reports. The blind online ...

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
HP and the State of California have teamed up to create a recycling tracking program for HP printing cartridges....

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas
Exxon Mobil Corp. said it is building a commercial demonstration plant near LaBarge, Wyo., to test an improved ...

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 ...

Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints

Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has released its Annual Report 2007 (PDF). The ASA says it dealt with record ...

Unilever Tells Suppliers: ‘Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Only’

Unilever Tells Suppliers: ‘Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Only’
In response to concerns, and protests, over palm oil crops' role in rainforest deforestation, food giant Unilever has announced it will ...

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism
Two days after Royal Dutch Shell posted a 25 percent increase in first quarter profit to a record $9.1 ...

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World
In a depiction of some of the world's largest energy projects, Forbes.com takes readers to Bahrain, where, a few ...

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and Environmental Defense Fund announced a new partnership to help ...

Grocery Chains Get Green Grades

Grocery Chains Get Green Grades
Corporate Knights Magazine has unveiled a Green Grocer Report Card (PDF) -- the ranking looks at the ...

Wal-Mart Weighs In On Packaging At FTC ‘Green Guides’ Workshop

Wal-Mart Weighs In On Packaging At FTC ‘Green Guides’ Workshop
Reducing the weight of Honest Kids organic juice drink pouch bulk packs sold at Wal-Mart is one of the ...

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners

Sun, UPS, Nationwide, HP Among Uptime Green IT Award Winners
The Uptime Institute, a research-based think-tank and advisor on business and technology issues related to computing and energy efficiency, ...

CDP: 96% Of Suppliers See Climate Change Regulation As Potential Risk

CDP: 96% Of Suppliers See Climate Change Regulation As Potential Risk
The Carbon Disclosure Project has announced findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration. Cadbury Schweppes, Dell, HP, Imperial Tobacco, L'Oréal, Nestlé, PepsiCo ...

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
At Yahoo! headquarters, we recently installed an interactive touch screen next to our corporate cafeteria. The Green Screen, as we fondly ...

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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
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

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

As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
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

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

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Hi-Tech

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Efficiency

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Manufacturing

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

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Major Players

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

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