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Language Of Sustainability Exploited By Marketers

Language Of Sustainability Exploited By Marketers
Some marketers see an opportunity to exploit the language of sustainability by overhyping their communications, exaggerating consumer benefits and building misconceptions with ...

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, ...

Nixon Peabody Appoints Chief Sustainability Officer

Nixon Peabody Appoints Chief Sustainability Officer
Law firm Nixon Peabody has appointed a Chief Sustainability Officer. The firm says it is the first in the legal industry ...

Compete On Green Or Fall Behind

Compete On Green Or Fall Behind
In the quest to go green, the first step a business needs to take is to start measuring and tracking their environmental ...

Georgia-Pacific Names Chief Sustainability Officer

Georgia-Pacific Names Chief Sustainability Officer
Georgia-Pacific has named Bill Frerking vice president and chief sustainability officer. He previously was chief counsel for the company’s building products ...

Is ‘Double Carbon Neutral’ On The Horizon?

Is ‘Double Carbon Neutral’ On The Horizon?
David Douglas, vice president for eco-responsibility at Sun Microsystems, raised an interesting question in his blog yesterday. Sun, which released ...

Timberland’s Swartz Says Shoe Manufacturers Need Green Standard

Timberland’s Swartz Says Shoe Manufacturers Need Green Standard
Shoe companies have yet to adopt the greenest methods for making, transporting and selling shoes, even though the technologies are readily available, ...

Bush Proposes International Clean Tech Fund

Bush Proposes International Clean Tech Fund
At today's meeting on climate change, President Bush outlined his climate change proposal which includes creating an “international clean technology fund,” to ...

Philips Wants 30% Of Revenue To Come From Green Products

Philips Wants 30% Of Revenue To Come From Green Products
Philips says that by 2012 it wants 30 percent of total revenues to come from green products, compared with 15 percent ...

UK ‘Green’ Grocers Look For CSR Directors

UK ‘Green’ Grocers Look For CSR Directors
Asada, Sainsbury's, and Tesco, three UK grocers with green agendas, are all searching for new directors of corporate social responsibility, The Guardian reports. The ...

Cilion Taps BP VP As CEO

Cilion Taps BP VP As CEO
Cilion has named Mark Noetzel as its CEO and member of the Board of Directors. He was previously a Group Vice President ...

HSBC Names Head Of New ‘Climate Change Center of Excellence’

HSBC Names Head Of New ‘Climate Change Center of Excellence’
HSBC has named Nick Robins as head of its newly created Climate Change Center of Excellence. Robins joined HSBC in October from Henderson ...

Florida To Cut Emissions

Florida To Cut Emissions
Florida's Governor Crist has signed three executive orders directing cuts in Florida's greenhouse gas emissions and increases in energy efficiency, ENS reports. Under ...

GM To Sell Diesel Cadillacs, Saturns

GM To Sell Diesel Cadillacs, Saturns
General Motors plans to offer diesel-engine cars under the Cadillac and Saturn brands in the U.S. by 2010, industry journal Automotive News ...

International Paper Creates ‘Office Of Sustainability’

International Paper Creates ‘Office Of Sustainability’
International Paper has created an office of sustainability to focus its efforts around wood fiber, conservation, air, water, life-cycle analysis and ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Former Expedia CEO Takes Top Spot At TerraPass

Former Expedia CEO Takes Top Spot At TerraPass
Erik Blachford, the former CEO of Expedia, has joined TerraPass as its new CEO. Blachford says he will spend his first few ...

PBS To Air Weekly ‘Building Green’ Series

PBS To Air Weekly ‘Building Green’ Series
PBS is set to air Building Green, a 13-episode series about eco-friendly building techniques and alternatives. PBS affiliate stations across the country will begin ...

Corporations Should Focus On Being ‘Good,’ Not ‘Less Bad’

Corporations Should Focus On Being ‘Good,’ Not ‘Less Bad’
In an essay written by George Carpenter and Peter White, both executives for P&G at the time of the article's February 2004 ...

Boeing’s Armstrong Heads New Enterprise Environmental Organization

Boeing’s Armstrong Heads New Enterprise Environmental Organization
Boeing has named Mary Armstrong as vice president of Environment, Health and Safety, a new organization designed to integrate and expand ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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