Major Players
$4bn for Energy Efficiency Announced; Walgreens, Kohl’s, Nissan Commit to Upgrades
3M, Alcoa, GE, Kohl's, Nissan, Supervalu, Walgreens and dozens of other organizations joined President Obama and former president Bill Clinton today in announcing ...
Amazon to Triple ‘Frustration-Free Packaging’ Shipments
Amazon aims to triple the number of items shipped under its "Frustration-Free Packaging" initiative next year, BusinessWeek reports.
Amazon kicked off the program, ...
CSR Departments Redundant, Unilever Chief Says
CSR departments are redundant, Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed told the annual Marketing Society conference in London.
Weed said brands should weave CSR into ...
GM Achieves Zero-Waste Status at 1st US Factory
General Motors' Fort Wayne Assembly Plant has become its first U.S. factory to reach zero waste-to-landfill status, joining 78 other GM manufacturing facilities around ...
Google Axes ‘Renewables Cheaper than Coal’ Project
Google is abandoning efforts to make renewable energy cheaper than coal, the company blogged yesterday.
The internet giant said is cancelling seven projects, including ...
Coke Makes 100% Recycling Pledge for 2012 Olympics
Coca-Cola has promised to recycle all clear plastic PET bottles used at the London 2012 Olympics, according to news reports.
The company has ...
Google Green Czar Steps Down
Google green czar Bill Weihl quietly stepped down from his post yesterday.
Weihl, who headed the company's Clean Energy Team, confirmed his departure ...
Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Make More Sustainable Food
Consumers today want healthier food that has minimal impact on the environment. The reality, however, is that agriculture is one of the biggest contributors ...
Apple Quietly Plans Solar Array for $1bn Data Center
Apple is quietly planning a solar farm near its newly opened, $1 billion Project Dolphin data center in Maiden, N.C., according to news reports.
The ...
Corporations Procuring, Investing and Trading in Renewable Energy
The relationship between corporate sustainability and renewable energy
Some of the world's leading organizations are actively promoting and investing in the ...
New Hara CEO Sharpens Focus on Energy Management
At Hara's Executive Summit held on September 20th, new CEO Dan Leff described energy cost savings as a "here and now" opportunity, ...
Microsoft Lags on 2012 CO2 Goal
Microsoft is behind schedule on a goal of reducing carbon emissions per unit of revenue by 20 percent by 2012, from a 2007 ...
Meg Whitman Brings Mixed Environmental Record to HP
Meg Whitman's appointment at HP sends mixed signals for the company's future sustainability leadership.
HP announced on Thursday that its board of directors appointed ...
Philips, Bayer Top CDP Rankings; Amazon, Apple and Warren Buffett Fail to Respond
Philips Electronics, Bayer and Cisco have topped the Carbon Disclosure Project’s 2011 carbon performance and disclosure rankings, as for the first time, a ...
Facebook, Amazon Panned on Energy Management and Transparency
Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and other major internet firms are failing to adequately disclose their carbon footprint, according to a report by independent analyst ...
Luminant to Sue EPA Over Cross-Border Pollution Rule
Luminant – Texas’s largest power generator - has announced the shuttering of facilities across the state, and launched a legal challenge against the regulations it blames ...
Data Revealed: Google Uses More Power than Salt Lake City
Google has broken its silence on energy consumption, announcing that it consumed 2,259,998 MWh in 2010.
In a new section on the Google Green ...
Water Scarcity Leads to Business Risk – PepsiCo Partnership Addresses the Challenge
From a global perspective, the water future should be of concern to all of us. Virtually all reports suggest that the water crisis ...
GE, Dow, Goldman Launch ‘Unprecendented’ Water Mapping Project
Dow Chemical, Talisman Energy, GE and United Technologies are among the members of an alliance, launched yesterday, which aims to provide companies with an ...
Software Heavyweight Unveils New Energy Solution, with a Twist
Tom Siebel, founder of the customer relationship management software company Siebel Systems, ranks among the world’s most successful software entrepreneurs. Since 2008, ...
