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McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions
Sen. John McCain has called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., the New York ...

Prince Of Wales Among Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Award Winners

Prince Of Wales Among Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Award Winners
The Rainforest Alliance announced the companies and individuals it is recognizing for their work with the alliance on making sustainable supply chain ...

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change
British economist and academic Lord Nicholas Stern has published a set of proposals (PDF) for a global deal ...

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz
At WSJ's ECO:nomics conference, the Rainforest Action Network ambushed Patricia Woertz, chairman, president and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland over ADM's use ...

CSR Reporting: Rainbows Versus ROI

CSR Reporting: Rainbows Versus ROI
You've heard it all before*. Someone reviews a corporate social responsibility report and complains that there are too many pictures of rainbows ...

(Dis)Orders of Magnitude

(Dis)Orders of Magnitude
Human beings are good at numbers, but only within a small range. Most of us can imagine how big "One Hundred" ...

How To Navigate The Environmental Media - Part 1

How To Navigate The Environmental Media - Part 1
Part One: All Quiet on the Western Front In January, the world saw the launch of the $15bn dollar "zero-carbon, waste-free, ...

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?
Why face-to-face may work better than TV ads In the rush for corporations to catch up with consumer interest in all things green, ...

5 Energy Efficiency Tips From Michael Dell

5 Energy Efficiency Tips From Michael Dell
Here are five tips from a CIO interview with Michael Dell about energy efficiency: CEOs must be engaged in ...

ALTOP-Verlag CEO Discusses CSR

ALTOP-Verlag CEO Discusses CSR
Fritz Lietsch, CEO of German publishing firm ALTOP-Verlag, which publishes magazines like FORUM Nachhaltig Wirtschaften, the leading german CSR magazine, and ECO ...

GM’s Bob Lutz: Global Warming Is A ‘Crock Of Shit’

GM’s Bob Lutz: Global Warming Is A ‘Crock Of Shit’
During a closed-door session with reporters in January, Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman, said that global warming ...

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change
Tony Blair said that he will advise Zurich Financial Services on climate change and political issues, Business Week ...

Global Inheritance Marketing Green to Gen Y

Global Inheritance Marketing Green to Gen Y
According to research from Mintel International, companies spend more than $1 billion a year on cause-related marketing, much of ...

UK’s Brown Calls For Green World Bank

UK’s Brown Calls For Green World Bank
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for the World Bank to assume ...

Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener

Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener
In a speech that promised widespread improvement and reform throughout Wal-Mart and its supply chain, Wal-Mart CEO H. ...

Ernst & Young Creates Sustainability Position

Ernst & Young Creates Sustainability Position
Ernst & Young appoints Leisha John, a 24-year veteran of the company, as Americas director of environmental sustainability, a new position ...

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 ...

Green IT Leaders Give 2008 Predictions

Green IT Leaders Give 2008 Predictions
InfoWorld has put together a list of predictions from some IT experts who've been immersed in sustainable tech this past year ...

5 Stages Of Corporate Sustainability

5 Stages Of Corporate Sustainability
In a recent AMR Research newsletter, John Davies wrote about five Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-like stages that a business might go through when ...

Marks & Spencer Chief Tops List Of Ethical Leaders

Marks & Spencer Chief Tops List Of Ethical Leaders
Ethical Corporation has selected 15 individuals from business, politics and civil society that the magazine feels has done the most for ...

Today's News

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
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Hi-Tech

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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