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Bosch Rexroth Launches Green Info Web Site

Bosch Rexroth Launches Green Info Web Site
Bosch Rexroth has launched a Web site to provide information on its sustainable manufacturing technology resources and to encourage innovation among ...

Environmental Defense Fund Sells ‘High-Quality’ Carbon Offsets

Environmental Defense Fund Sells ‘High-Quality’ Carbon Offsets
Environmental Defense Fund has launched CarbonOffsetList.org, an online resource businesses and consumers can use to identify and purchase ...

Cisco Virtual Office Aimed At Companies With Remote Workers

Cisco Virtual Office Aimed At Companies With Remote Workers
Cisco announced the Cisco Virtual Office, a solution which allows businesses to extend their enterprise and productivity by ...

Burt’s Bees Cuts Water Use By 20%, Electricity 14%

Burt’s Bees Cuts Water Use By 20%, Electricity 14%
Burt's Bees released its first CSR report this week. In the first half of 2008, the company reported ...

Energy Efficiency Consultant On Climate Change And Efficiency

Energy Efficiency Consultant On Climate Change And Efficiency
Green Canary Sustainability CEO Kevin Tuerff interviews Wendy Reed, a national energy efficiency consultant, about how being energy efficient can help the ...

ADVERTISERS

Office Depot Offers Tech Trade-In Program

Office Depot Offers Tech Trade-In Program
Office Depot announced it is launching the Office Depot Tech Trade-In program. The program is partnering with N.E.W. ...

CardPak, Winterborne Join Forces On Sustainable Packaging

CardPak, Winterborne Join Forces On Sustainable Packaging
CardPak Inc., and Winterborne Inc. are joining resources to bring sustainable packaging products and services to the clamshell and ...

Consumers Interested in Corporate Social Responsibility Specifics

Consumers Interested in Corporate Social Responsibility Specifics
A growing number of consumers are interested in the complete eco-lifecycle of products - including where products originate and end up at ...

CHEP Discusses Sustainability

CHEP Discusses Sustainability
CHEP was recently featured in an episode of Sustainable Planet’s Eye on the Environment series....

Half of GM’s Manufacturing Plants to be Landfill-Free by 2010

Half of GM’s Manufacturing Plants to be Landfill-Free by 2010
General Motors announced  it is planning to make half of its major global manufacturing operations landfill-free by the ...

Older Demographics Biggest Users of Green Products

Older Demographics Biggest Users of Green Products
Consumers over 55 years old are the most prolific users of green products in the U.S., according to a survey by ...

Caterpillar Expands Remanufacturing Offerings with New Facility

Caterpillar Expands Remanufacturing Offerings with New Facility
Caterpillar announced it will open a new remanufacturing facility in Singapore, which will serve as the regional source ...

Energy Efficiency, Green Issues Not Driving Companies To New Offices

Energy Efficiency, Green Issues Not Driving Companies To New Offices
Rental cost has proved the key factor followed by retention of key staff in the decision to acquire new office space in ...

TRIRIGA Announces New Eco-Building Management System

TRIRIGA Announces New Eco-Building Management System
TRIRIGA announced it is offering a new eco-building management system, TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability - or TREES. The ...

VEII Talks Up LEDs for Vending Machines

VEII Talks Up LEDs for Vending Machines
Vendors Exchange International (VEII) is now offering LED retrofit kits to replace fluorescent bulbs in existing vending machines, AmOnline.com ...

RGGI’s Greenhouse Auction Could See Low Demand

RGGI’s Greenhouse Auction Could See Low Demand
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will hold its first auction for permits of more than 12 million tons ...

Akzo Nobel: 18% Of Revenue From Sustainable Products

Akzo Nobel: 18% Of Revenue From Sustainable Products
Akzo Nobel is depending on green products to drum up more sales and offset mounting pressure related to the ...

eBay Launches Green Marketplace

eBay Launches Green Marketplace
eBay unveiled plans for a new e-commerce site for shoppers of environmentally friendly and fair-trade goods. The new ...

News and Websites Most Successful for CSR Communications

News and Websites Most Successful for CSR Communications
Successful CSR communication is about the right message, the right amount of information delivered through the right vehicle, according to the ...

HP Thinks Outside The Box, Sells Notebooks In Messenger Bags

HP Thinks Outside The Box, Sells Notebooks In Messenger Bags
HP has redesigned the packaging of the HP Pavilion dv6929 by replacing conventional shipping materials and boxes with the ...

Today's News

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

True or false? “Until corporate environmental best practices are considered as confidential as other company IP, they are clearly not driving competitive ... continue »

Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Certain fast-moving, environmentally-friendly consumable products are being used by a significant portion of the U.S. general population, according to the Natural ...

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Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
CEOs Leading Champions Of Corporate Green Initiatives
Gamers Checking Out Green Cars
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Greentech investment experts at GoingGreen discuss how much it will cost the U.S. economy to go carbon neutral....

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Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
Vinod Khosla On The Need For Clean Tech To Deliver Real Results
CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Sharp And TBS Issue ‘Lights Out Challenge’

Emissions

Sprint Sets Goal Of Cutting GHG Emissions 15%

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

Hi-Tech

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency

Efficiency

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

Chipotle Restaurant Features Wind Turbine

Ben & Jerry’s Tests ‘Greener’ Freezer

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Financial Turmoil May Boost Energy Efficiency Initiatives

GAO: CO2-Offset Market Lacks Credibility

CSR Reports

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Honda Reduces 700 kg of CO2 Emissions Per Vehicle Produced

Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool

Major Players

FedEx Hybrid Truck Plan Hits Speed Bump

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

AT&T Installing 1 Megawatt Solar System

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