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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 ...

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green
A green building study by the Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment and investment management group Calvert Group found ...

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

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

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency
Colgate-Palmolive has published its sustainability report. In 2007, Colgate's global CO2 emissions were approximately 675,000 metric tons, up from 664,000 ...

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent
The Billerica, Mass.-based life-sciences equipment maker Millipore said it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over ...

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′

REI’s ‘30% By 2009′ Goal Precedes ‘100% By 2020′
In its second annual stewardship report, REI has established a 2009 goal to reduce emissions by one-third from ...

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 ...

Timberland To Release Quarterly CSR Data

Timberland To Release Quarterly CSR Data
No sooner than the Ceres coalition and the ACCA announced Timberland's award for best sustainability reporting, the company ...

Grocery Chains Get Green Grades

Grocery Chains Get Green Grades
Corporate Knights Magazine has unveiled a Green Grocer Report Card (PDF) -- the ranking looks at the ...

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards
Ford Motor Company and The Timberland Company received the top sustainability reporting awards in an international competition organized by ...

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?
Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports. The aim of the ...

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 ...

CSR Reporting: The Importance Of Stakeholder Engagement

CSR Reporting: The Importance Of Stakeholder Engagement
I graduated from UNC in May of 1998 and after a month-long surfing trip to Costa Rica I started a job in ...

Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off

Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off
Ford has become the first U.S. auto company to spell out how it plans to reach the goal of ...

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers

HP Releases CSR Report, List Of Suppliers
HP has issued its 2007 Global Citizenship Report and a list of its largest suppliers. According to the report, ...

Lego Releases Sustainability Report, Misses Efficiency Target

Lego Releases Sustainability Report, Misses Efficiency Target
The Lego Group has released its 2007 sustainability report (PDF).  Overall, Lego's five percent efficiency target ...

Should CFOs Take A Seat At The Sustainability Table?

Should CFOs Take A Seat At The Sustainability Table?
More than half of finance executives believe their companies are "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to increase revenue, ...

BASF Measures Sustainability Of Food Production

BASF Measures Sustainability Of Food Production
BASF has developed a tool for its customers in the food industry which gives information on the composition ...

Will Recession Derail Your CSR Efforts?

Will Recession Derail Your CSR Efforts?
Two major corporate social responsibility questions will be faced during the economic downturn, according to Ethical Corporation. Will consumers ...

Today's News

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

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

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Hi-Tech

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

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

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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