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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 ...

HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback
Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions
Of the 20 shareholder resolutions filed with companies by Domini Social Investments for the 2008 proxy season, six concerned ...

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced an online Innovation Hotel, to gather feedback from travelers about "green" features that ...

Dell Fends Off Blog Critics With Sustainable Packaging Fixes

Dell Fends Off Blog Critics With Sustainable Packaging Fixes
Earth Day posts on blogs like The Consumerist and Gizmodo (the photo is from Gizmodo) prompted Dell ...

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
Jonathan Cohen from DuPont explains the aims of his company in developing sustainable solutions for the packaging industry. DuPont recently announced ...

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
HP and the State of California have teamed up to create a recycling tracking program for HP printing cartridges....

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste
In its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report Motorola, Inc. highlights actions the company has taken on social, accountability and ...

OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products

OfficeMax, TerraCycle Partner On Green Office Products
Binders made from 100 percent recycled cardboard covers and 90 percent recycled steel rings will be among the products ...

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill
Because Goodwill Industries is increasingly becoming a place to "donate" old computers and other used electronics, the organization is ...

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

Pepsi Cans Feature Recycling Info

Pepsi Cans Feature Recycling Info
Recycling facts and messages provided by the National Recycling Coalition will be featured on 500 million Pepsi cans and ...

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint
The entire lifecycle of every copy of Discover Magazine produced costs 2.1 pounds in Co2 emissions, the magazine ...

Macy’s Switches To Recycled Paper Bags, Eco-Friendly Packaging

Macy’s Switches To Recycled Paper Bags, Eco-Friendly Packaging
Macy's will begin using recycled paper shopping bags at its Macy's stores, as well as biodegradable packaging for its ...

Hearst Tower Sets Zero-Waste Policy

Hearst Tower Sets Zero-Waste Policy
Hearst Corporation has begun implementing a zero-waste policy at its Manhattan headquarters, making it among the first corporations to ...

Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’

Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’
I meet with too many organizations that are still addressing sustainability as if it's something new, something different, when in fact many ...

Sony Recycling Pays off

Sony Recycling Pays off
Sony is gathering the plastic shells of old Sony TVs from recycling plants, collecting excess Styrofoam from its production ...

Target Launches First-Class Recycling Campaign

Target Launches First-Class Recycling Campaign
In case you missed this, the April 8 issue of Newsweek, on sale April 8, has a cover that ...

Recycling Bins Attract Green Brands

Recycling Bins Attract Green Brands
Best Buy, UPS, Western Union and, of course, Whole Foods, have all raised their hands as supporting a "green" ...

Enviro Groups Update Office Supply Industry’s Green Grades

Enviro Groups Update Office Supply Industry’s Green Grades
A recent USA Today ad placed by environmental groups Dogwood Alliance and ForestEthics highlighted the forest-related paper practices of  Corporate Express, ...

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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
Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers are calling on brands to take responsibility for reducing the impact of climate change as governments fail to make progress, according ...

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Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

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Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
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

UPS Orders 500 Hybrid, CNG Delivery Trucks

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality

Nissan Electric Car Headed To U.S. By 2010

Hi-Tech

HP Exec On Product Takeback

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Efficiency

DOE: Wind Could Supply 20 Percent of U.S. Electricity By 2030

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

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

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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