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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 ...

Nike Plans To Be Carbon Neutral By 2011

Nike Plans To Be Carbon Neutral By 2011
Nike released its fiscal 2005 and 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report today. The company says it has exceeded its ...

NBC Universal Gets Large Dose Of Ecomagination

NBC Universal Gets Large Dose Of Ecomagination
NBC Universal has launched “Get On Board,” a program to reduce greenhouse gases and raise awareness. It's all part of ...

Banks, Energy Efficiency Companies Join Clinton’s $5 Billion Green Cities Program

Banks, Energy Efficiency Companies Join Clinton’s $5 Billion Green Cities Program
Fifteen cities around the world will renovate city-owned buildings with green technology under a program spearheaded by former President Clinton's foundation, ...

Exelon Reduces Electricity Use 43%

Exelon Reduces Electricity Use 43%
Chicago utility Exelon Corp. consolidated its downtown Chicago locations into one suburban location and modernized existing space to conform to U.S. Green Building ...

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Matsushita Seeks Credits By Cutting Energy Use at 60 Factories in China

Matsushita Seeks Credits By Cutting Energy Use at 60 Factories in China
Japanese companies have so far gained emissions credits in China and other Asian countries, about 161 such projects approved so far, by helping ...

Wal-Mart To Install Solar Power Systems At 22 Stores

Wal-Mart To Install Solar Power Systems At 22 Stores
Wal-Mart is purchasing as much as 20 million kWh of solar power, from BP Solar, SunEdison LLC, and PowerLight, ...

IHG To Replace Incandescents With CFLs

IHG To Replace Incandescents With CFLs
The Americas Operations division of IHG, the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, will replace over 250,000 incandescent light ...

Recent RFPs

Recent RFPs
April 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy  ...

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 ...

Corporate America Nears Green Tipping Point

Corporate America Nears Green Tipping Point
Profitability of America’s corporations will be closely tied to proactive sustainability practices and Green Building principles, according to findings from a new ...

Fed Partnership Cuts Manufacturers Energy Consumption

Fed Partnership Cuts Manufacturers Energy Consumption
The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute for Science and Technology have created a partnership to ...

Northern Trust Saves Energy with VFDs

Northern Trust Saves Energy with VFDs
A project Honeywell completed at Northern Trust's Chicago headquarters that involved installing more than 40 varibale frequency drives onto air-handling motors in the building ...

Hotels in PG&E Service Territory Get Free Energy Efficiency Upgrades

Hotels in PG&E Service Territory Get Free Energy Efficiency Upgrades
Honeywell has won a $4.7 million contract from Pacific Gas & Electric to implement an energy-efficiency program in small hotels and ...

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. ...

Freight Companies Work to Limit Idling

Freight Companies Work to Limit Idling
According to the Department of Energy, long-haul trucks idle 500 to 3,500 hours a year, consuming up to a billion gallons of diesel ...

Verizon Pilots Hybrid Service Vans

Verizon Pilots Hybrid Service Vans
Verizon will soon begin a pilot project using 13 hybrid service vans. The vans will serve some of Verizon's FiOS Internet and ...

Foss Maritime to Build Hybrid Tug

Foss Maritime to Build Hybrid Tug
Foss Maritime plans to build the world’s first true hybrid tug boat that will significantly reduce nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, sulphur ...

EPA Cuts Diesel Locomotive and Vessel Pollution

EPA Cuts Diesel Locomotive and Vessel Pollution
EPA is proposing a new rule to reduce air pollution from locomotive and marine diesel engines. The Clean Air Locomotive and ...

Honda to Spend $165 Million for Greener Facilities

Honda to Spend $165 Million for Greener Facilities
Honda will spend $165 million by 2009 to make two of its coating facilities in North America more environmentally friendly, helping them ...

Today's News

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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