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AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

Nissan Ties Corporate Citizenship to Brand Positioning

Nissan Ties Corporate Citizenship to Brand Positioning
Nissan has launched a plan to create its own global corporate citizenship programs, publicize them through marketing channels and move away ...

Honda, Tesco, Goldman Sachs Among Top 10 ‘Green Giants’

Honda, Tesco, Goldman Sachs Among Top 10 ‘Green Giants’
Fortune magazine has published a special report “Going Green” which includes a list of ten companies that the editors feel go beyond ...

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020
EU leaders agreed Friday that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power sources by 2020, AP reports. ...

Product Design That’s Profitable and Sustainable

Product Design That’s Profitable and Sustainable
Making customer experience a pillar of sustainable profitability is a better alternative than sustainability by enforced abstinence, writes Gianfranco Zaccai, president ...

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GEMI Rolls Out Interactive Sustainable Development Tool

GEMI Rolls Out Interactive Sustainable Development Tool
The Global Environmental Management Initiative has released an interactive version of its sustainable development tool, the GEMI SD Planner, as well ...

Branson, Gore Announce $25 Million ‘Virgin Earth Challenge’

Branson, Gore Announce $25 Million ‘Virgin Earth Challenge’
Sir Richard Branson and Al Gore have set up a new global science and technology prize -? The Virgin Earth Challenge - ...

Austin Aims for Zero CO2 Emissions by 2020

Austin Aims for Zero CO2 Emissions by 2020
Austin has announced an aggressive climate protection plan that will cut its carbon dioxide emissions to almost nothing by 2020, the ...

Shell Hires Gale Norton

Shell Hires Gale Norton
Former interior secretary for the Bush administration, Gale Norton, has taken up a senior legal post at Shell, The Guardian reports. She is ...

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy
President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit ...

Survey: Microsoft has Best Corporate Reputation

Survey: Microsoft has Best Corporate Reputation
Microsoft is the company with the best corporate reputation, according to Harris Interactive's Reputation Quotient survey, USA Today reports. ...

Canada’s Environment Commissioner Fired, Too Environmental

Canada’s Environment Commissioner Fired, Too Environmental
Canada's federal environment commissioner Johanne Gelinas, the country's top ranking environment offical, has been fired, Maclean's reports. Sources said auditor general Sheila Fraser ...

Clif Bar’s ‘Save Our Snow’ Roadtrip Visits Ski Resorts

Clif Bar’s ‘Save Our Snow’ Roadtrip Visits Ski Resorts
Clif Bar has launched (via TreeHugger) a new marketing campaign, Clif Bar Save Our Snow Winter Roadtrip, that features ...

Canada Maps Out 3 Parts of $1.5 Billion ecoEnergy Funding

Canada Maps Out 3 Parts of $1.5 Billion ecoEnergy Funding
Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has announced more than $1.5 billion in funding for its ecoENERGY Renewable Initiative to boost Canada’s renewable energy ...

White House Says it Still Opposes Carbon Caps

White House Says it Still Opposes Carbon Caps
The White House has denied media reports suggesting that Bush would agree to mandatory caps on emissions in an effort to combat ...

Ted Turner Launches DT Solar, Enters Renewables Market

Ted Turner Launches DT Solar, Enters Renewables Market
Ted Turner is partnering with Branchburg, New Jersey-based Dome-Tech Solar to create DT Solar, a Turner renewable energy company. ...

Syngenta to Pay $1.5 Million for Bt 10 Distribution

Syngenta to Pay $1.5 Million for Bt 10 Distribution
Syngenta Seeds has agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty to EPA for selling and distributing seed corn that contained ...

U.S., EU Ink New Energy Star Agreement for Office Equipment

U.S., EU Ink New Energy Star Agreement for Office Equipment
The European Union and the U.S. will continue the Energy Star program for office equipment for another five years. Based on the energy efficiency criteria ...

Branson: Airlines Can Cut CO2 Emissions 25% in 2 Years

Branson: Airlines Can Cut CO2 Emissions 25% in 2 Years
Even though high fuel prices have cost the Virgin Group and Virgin Atlantic about a billion dollars a year in increased costs because ...

Energy Security Leadership Council Meets with Lawmakers, WH Officials

Energy Security Leadership Council Meets with Lawmakers, WH Officials
Executives of shippers, chemical companies and other big users of petroleum products want the new Congress to tighten fuel-efficiency standards and open ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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