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Ikea To Ban All Plastic Bags
It's been a year since Ikea introduced its "bag the plastic bag" program. The retailer had set a goal of reducing its U.S. stores' plastic bag consumption by 50 percent; from ...
EPA Temporarily Bars IBM From New Federal Contracts
IBM has been temporarily barred from receiving contracts with all federal agencies while the Environmental Protection Agency reviews concerns raised about potential activities involving a procurement, AP reports.
IBM and some of its employees have ...
Consumer Product’s Green Diet: Slimmer Packaging Looks Good On You
What a difference a year makes. At the start of 2007, few consumer products companies had a focus on sustainability in packaging. However, 54 percent of the consumer goods companies that AMR Research recently surveyed ...
WOM Could Unlock $104 Billion In Green Technology Sales
Americans' appetite for environmentally friendly technologies and consumer products is grossly underserved, with a potential $104 billion in sales this year, according to the 2007 National Technology Readiness Survey. A whopping 71 ...
CIOs Face Green Sales Barrage
CIOs are seeing green sales pitches on all types of products. One challenge is seeing past the marketing hype - especially when it comes to products that have been available for some ...
Applied Materials’ Green Sales Triple To $122 Million
While Applied Materials' chip-equipment-making business has struggled, according to MarketWatch, net sales for its energy and environment solutions group more than tripled on year to $122 million in the company's ...
Green Mountain Shows Green is Profitable
Green Mountain Coffee, a corporation poster child for "doing good and doing well," has posted another impressive quarter, reports The Motley Fool. The company's net income increased 20 percent to ...
Climate Change Good for Sales Of Bottled Water
Citi analysts have released a report claiming that key bottled water companies and global water companies are poised to benefit from climate change, according to watertech.Due to recent complaints, sales of bottled water ...
Nau CEO Talks Up Company’s ‘Web Front’ Concept
Consumers Shop Green For Holidays (Updated)
Experts and research companies including Pricegrabber.com, Cone, and Deloitte are predicting that green holiday shopping will be hot this year.
PriceGrabber.com Survey:
PriceGrabber.com says that 71 percent of those responding to its recent holiday survey say it ...
Environmentally Friendly Product Purchases On Rise
Customers are increasing purchases of environmentally friendly products with promising gains in adoption rates of extended-life paper products, compact fluorescent light bulbs and organic milk, according to Wal-Mart’s first update of its Live Better ...
Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030
Morgan Stanley estimates that global sales from clean energy sources like like wind, solar and geothermal could reach $1 trillion a year by 2030, Reuters reports.
Population growth and soaring prices for fossil fuels are ...
Toshiba Replacing Vehicle Fleet With Hybrids
Over the next three years, Toshiba America Medical Systems will replace its fleet of sedans for its sales and service teams with Toyota Camry Hybrids, Industry Week reports.
The company hopes the move will ...
EPEAT Hands Out Green Electronics Champion Awards
The city of San Jose, Kaiser Permanente, California Integrated Waste Management Board and Department of General Services, San Francisco-based McKesson Corporation and the city of Phoenix have received Green Electronics Champion Awards for using ...
Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money
Wal-Mart's sustainability initiative to downsize packaging is costing manufacturers money, AdAge reports. It could cost Procter & Gamble, part of Wal-Mart's effort to concentrate certain products, $200 million by one estimate.
Wal-Mart's ...
Consumer Spending On Green Will Double, Reach $500 Billion In 2008
Consumers expect to double their spending on green products and services in the next year, totaling an estimated $500 billion annually or $43 billion per month, according to new findings from the 2007 ImagePower ...
Philips Wants 30% Of Revenue To Come From Green Products
U.S. Hybrid Sales Up 49%
U.S. sales of new hybrid cars were up 49 percent in the first seven months of this year, according to R. L. Polk & Co.
Hybrid sales were up 57 percent in the Midwest, 52 ...
DOE Launches ‘Energy Star Quantity Quotes’
Energy Star's Bulk Purchasing Tool was recently relaunched as Energy Star Quantity Quotes.
Energy Star Quantity Quotes is an on-line bulk purchasing tool designed to help bulk purchasers of Energy Star qualified appliances, light bulbs, ...
Mattel Brand Hurt By Recalls
With Mattel ordering recall after recall, its brand is beginning to pay the price, MediaPost reports.
Robert Passikoff, founder of Brand Keys, says that most brands can weather one recall fairly well. Mattel's ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
