Major Players
CBRE Expands Sustainable Property Services
CB Richard Ellis led the property services industry by benchmarking and registering 242 million square feet of Energy Star buildings and engaging 146 million ...
Apple Paying Consumers for PCs
Apple has expanded its recycling program with an option that will pay owners of iPhones, iPads, Macs and even PCs a fair market value ...
Ford, GM Sign On As White House Unveils 54.5mpg Standard
General Motors and Ford have signed off on a deal to increase fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
The ...
GE Halves Spills, But Misses Exceedance Goal
GE has failed to reach its goal of a 25 percent reduction in environmental exceedances in 2010, with both air and water exceedances ...
Benchmarking Environmental Sustainability Goals
Goals signal intent and drive behavior. Some companies announce sustainability goals to signal their commitment to become sustainability leaders and to compete ...
Companies Expand Focus from Carbon to Total Resource Use
Not so long ago, measuring and managing your enterprise's carbon footprint was a top priority. Federal energy policy was imminent. The U.S. ...
The Real-World Application of Corporate Sustainability
Ask ten different experts to define “corporate sustainability” and you are likely to receive ten different answers all based, to a ...
Sustainable Innovation: What Some Leaders Do that Others Don’t
HH Dow, the founder of Dow Chemical Company, once said, “If you can’t do it better, why do it?” That quote ...
Staples, Coke, GE Among Newest Clean Fleets Partners
Coca-Cola, Staples, Enterprise Holdings and three other companies, with nearly a million commercial vehicles between them, have joined the Obama administration’s National Clean ...
Collaboration as a Conduit for Sustainability, Solutions to World Challenges
Corporate sustainability is not a new concept. In recent years, companies across the globe have been increasingly applying sustainability practices and funneling ...
Coca-Cola Selling PET Recycling Plant, Sources Say
Coca-Cola's PET recycling plant in Spartanburg, S.C. is for sale, Plastics News has reported.
More than half a dozen sources told the website that ...
GE's Ecomagination Spent $1.8bn, Launched 22 Products in 2010
GE spent about $1.8 billion on research and development of clean technologies and developed 22 new products as part of its Ecomagination initiative ...
Google and Coulomb Install 70 EV Charging Stations
Google has expanded its electric vehicle infrastructure to over 220 charging stations with the addition of 71 faster, Level 2 chargers from Coulomb Technologies.
The ...
Kimberly-Clark to Cut GHG 5%, Water 25% by 2015
Kimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex, Scott and Huggies, has committed to a 25 percent cut in water use and five percent absolute reduction ...
Investors Blast 43 Firms for ‘Contradictory’ Climate Stance
AT&T, GE, GM and Ford are among the who’s who of corporate America that has been accused of taking contradictory positions on ...
PepsiCo Rolls Out 5 Recyclable and Compostable Cups
PepsiCo has started offering five types of recyclable and compostable cups to U.S. food service customers.
The company says that the portfolio allows food ...
Two Cultural Pillars in Dow Chemical’s Sustainability Strategy
Dow Chemical has been on a clear sustainability journey since the early 90s. However, in 2006 they set sustainability goals ...
Muddled Shutdown at Coke Recycling Facility Keeps Suppliers Waiting
Despite statements otherwise made by Coca-Cola and United Resource Recovery Corp., recyclers have complained of balances unpaid since the March shutdown and layoff of all ...
Fed Carbon Footprint: 121.3 Million Metric Tons; Lion’s Share is DOD
The federal government's 2010 “reducible” emissions totaled 66.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to The White House Council on Environmental Quality ...
GE Cuts Factories GHG Emissions 80% by Switching to Cyclopentane
GE Appliances & Lighting says it has become the first full-line appliance manufacturer in the U.S. to adopt cyclopentane – a ...
