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Eastman Chemical Cuts GHG Emissions, Energy Use

Eastman Chemical Cuts GHG Emissions, Energy Use
Eastman Chemical Company's Longview, Texas, site received an "exceptional merit honor" from the Responsible Care program of the American Chemistry ...

Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons

Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons
EPA released its Sixth Annual Progress Report for the National Environmental Performance Track program, which encourages facilities ...

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 ...

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green
Corporate social responsibility mandates are one factor that is leading to more green, and, for planners, more complicated meetings, ...

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers
Australian banking company Westpac will ask more than 10,000 of its suppliers to meet its new Sustainable Supply Chain ...

Prince Of Wales Among Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Award Winners

Prince Of Wales Among Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Award Winners
The Rainforest Alliance announced the companies and individuals it is recognizing for their work with the alliance on making sustainable supply chain ...

Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives

Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives
CRO has compiled a list of ways companies can stay responsible during an economic slowdown: Make corporate responsibility initiatives a bigger priority ...

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows
Efficiency Vermont, an independent nonprofit provider of energy-efficient services, has helped close to 60 percent of the state's electricity ...

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions
The American Trucking Associations has launched the first-ever industry-wide environmental sustainability program under the banner Trucks Deliver a ...

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

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues
In an article in AdvertisingAge, Adam Werbach, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, says that with a tougher regulatory environment, and ...

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose
Energy efficiency was the winning bidder in the construction of the first new building eBay has built in its ...

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 ...

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing
IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and Herman Miller have found a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing, purchasing.com reports. IBM takes ...

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 ...

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
CEOs believe that customer expectations around corporate social responsibility are increasing, and CSR will play an important role in differentiating an enterprise ...

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance
Google, Anheuser-Busch and Levi Strauss had the largest score improvement, each jumping over 20 points, in Climate Counts' ...

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Major retailers, including OfficeMax, Home Depot, Banana Republic and REI all sent e-mails with Earth friendly ideas or Earth ...

Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints

Advertising Watchdog Sees Big Jump In Green Ad Complaints
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has released its Annual Report 2007 (PDF). The ASA says it dealt with record ...

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 ...

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
At Yahoo! headquarters, we recently installed an interactive touch screen next to our corporate cafeteria. The Green Screen, as we fondly ...

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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
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’

Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered ...

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HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
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

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Eastman Chemical Cuts GHG Emissions, Energy Use

Hi-Tech

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

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

Efficiency

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons

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

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

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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