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Package Printers, Manufacturers Discuss Sustainability Efforts

Package Printers, Manufacturers Discuss Sustainability Efforts
Kevin Rabinovitch, director of sustainability for Mars North America, warns CPGs and converters to look beyond the direct impacts ...

Shipping Companies Building Bigger To Curb GHG Emissions

Shipping Companies Building Bigger To Curb GHG Emissions
STX Shipbuilding says it has developed the world's largest container ship, which is capable of carrying 22,000 twenty-foot ...

Maersk Reports Emissions Reductions From Vessels

Maersk Reports Emissions Reductions From Vessels
In its Environmental Report 2007, A.P. Moller-Maersk Group says it achieved a decrease in fuel for its container ...

Kraft Distribution Center Tagged As LEED-CI Gold Facility

Kraft Distribution Center Tagged As LEED-CI Gold Facility
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has recognized an 800,000-square-foot Kraft Foods distribution center near Chicago for its ...

CSR Report: Intel On Track To Reduce GHG Emissions 30% By 2010

CSR Report: Intel On Track To Reduce GHG Emissions 30% By 2010
Intel is on track to reach  its goal of reducing its total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent per unit of ...

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Supply Chain In Spotlight at Ceres Conference

Supply Chain In Spotlight at Ceres Conference
At the recent Ceres conference, investors, environmentalists, and business executives came together to address a wide range of sustainability challenges from stakeholder ...

IBM Releases Slew Of Efficiency, Carbon Management Tools

IBM Releases Slew Of Efficiency, Carbon Management Tools
IBM has launched the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler, a tool that that the company says analyzes and manages the climate impact of ...

P&G VP Of Sustainability Discusses Green Initiatives

P&G VP Of Sustainability Discusses Green Initiatives
Procter & Gamble's sustainability initiatives include plans to cut its carbon footprint by as much as 40 percent by ...

Burt’s Bees Aims For Efficiency At New Distribution Center

Burt’s Bees Aims For Efficiency At New Distribution Center
Burt's Bees' has installed a sensor-activated motorized drive roller conveyor at its distribution center in North Carolina which has ...

CHEP Gives Employees $2K For Buying Hybrids

CHEP Gives Employees $2K For Buying Hybrids
A program of CHEP USA gives up to $2,000 to employees who purchase hybrid cars and trucks, Mobile Logistics ...

TNT To Replace 100 Diesel Delivery Trucks With Electrics

TNT To Replace 100 Diesel Delivery Trucks With Electrics
Amsterdam-based delivery company TNT, in partnership with Smith Electric Vehicles, has introduced more than 100 electric trucks in the UK, ...

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 ...

Unilever Tells Suppliers: ‘Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Only’

Unilever Tells Suppliers: ‘Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Only’
In response to concerns, and protests, over palm oil crops' role in rainforest deforestation, food giant Unilever has announced it will ...

CDP: 96% Of Suppliers See Climate Change Regulation As Potential Risk

CDP: 96% Of Suppliers See Climate Change Regulation As Potential Risk
The Carbon Disclosure Project has announced findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration. Cadbury Schweppes, Dell, HP, Imperial Tobacco, L'Oréal, Nestlé, PepsiCo ...

American Apparel Makes Big Cleaner Cotton Purchase

American Apparel Makes Big Cleaner Cotton Purchase
American Apparel is one of the latest garment manufacturers to extend its sustainable practices by joining forces with ...

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
For years, sourcing and procurement organizations have focused on perfecting lean business processes, guided by the fundamentals of strategy, size, management, and ...

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica

Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica
Dole says that its operating division in Costa Rica will purchase carbon offsets from the Costa Rican Government's program ...

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 ...

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo

HP Packaging To Carry EPA SmartWay Logo
HP is the first company to receive approval from the U.S. EPA to have the agency's SmartWay logo displayed ...

Coke’s Quest For Eco-Friendly Vending Machines Hits Snag

Coke’s Quest For Eco-Friendly Vending Machines Hits Snag
Companies like GE, Wal-Mart, and Procter & Gamble have found it difficult at times to get their customers and ...

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Business and the Environment: The Challenge of Change

Business and the Environment: The Challenge of Change

Imagine it's 100 years ago. 1908. You're starting an ice cream business. You plan to illuminate your new factory with gas lamps; ... continue »

The View from World Water Week 2008
Portugal Points The Way For Renewable Energy Adoption
Raw Sourcing: Glass, Plastic or Aluminum?
Environmental Supply Chain Planning – Expanding Accountability
Older Demographics Biggest Users of Green Products

Older Demographics Biggest Users of Green Products

Consumers over 55 years old are the most prolific users of green products in the U.S., according to a survey by ...

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Energy Efficiency, Green Issues Not Driving Companies To New Offices
Valuing Green: Budgeting for Economic Sustainability
News and Websites Most Successful for CSR Communications
Ray Anderson On Sustainability At Interface

Ray Anderson On Sustainability At Interface

An interview with Ray Anderson, Founder of Interface, Inc. This interview was conducted at the 2008 Sustainable Operations Summit on May 19th ...

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Greenpeace Targets Logging Ships
Kyocera Mita UK Discusses Sustainability Efforts
Wal-Mart Exec Discusses Sustainability Initiatives
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Marketing

Older Demographics Biggest Users of Green Products

Google, IBM, Nike Make List Of Businesses Bettering The Planet

The Planet Saves Big With Lights-Out Program

Emissions

UCSD Installs Solar Trees

RGGI’s Greenhouse Auction Could See Low Demand

Airlines Tout CO2 Emissions Reductions

Hi-Tech

Software Industry Making Headway On Sustainability

Putting More Green Into IT

Forrester: Establish ‘Green Baseline’ Now

Efficiency

Business and the Environment: The Challenge of Change

Ray Anderson On Sustainability At Interface

Green Buildings Gaining Steam, Albeit Slowly

Manufacturing

Time For U.S. Manufacturing To Consider Energy Efficiency

HP Thinks Outside The Box, Sells Notebooks In Messenger Bags

ExxonMobil Says New Tire Material Increases Fuel Efficiency

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Kansas Aircraft-Makers Make Plans To Reduce Carbon Footprints

Naperville Shopping Development 100% Covered by Wind RECs

Tacoma Power Buys $15M in RECs

CSR Reports

Campbell’s New VP of CSR: David Stangis

UPS Energy Consumption Per Package Increases

Coke Rolled Out ‘Green’ Coolers At Olympics

Major Players

Synthetic Genomics Tops List Of Greentech Winners

Caterpillar Expands Remanufacturing Offerings with New Facility

Corporations Face New Definition of ‘Compliance’

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