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DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
Jonathan Cohen from DuPont explains the aims of his company in developing sustainable solutions for the packaging industry. DuPont recently announced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project

KKR Partners With EDF On ‘Green Portfolio’ Project
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and Environmental Defense Fund announced a new partnership to help ...

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill

E-Waste Piles Up At Goodwill
Because Goodwill Industries is increasingly becoming a place to "donate" old computers and other used electronics, the organization is ...

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 ...

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money
As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

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 ...

New SAS Software Identifies Sustainable Business Strategies

New SAS Software Identifies Sustainable Business Strategies
SAS for Sustainability Management is a software platform designed to help companies and organizations identify strategies that address ...

Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower

Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower
The HSBC Tower in downtown Mexico City is the first building in Latin America to receive LEED Gold certification from the Mexico ...

AIA Picks Top Sustainable Building Designs

AIA Picks Top Sustainable Building Designs
This year’s top picks for the best green building projects of the year from the American Institute of Architects Committee on ...

Sustainability Is Watchword for Biomass Industry

Sustainability Is Watchword for Biomass Industry
Sustainability was on the minds of many of today's speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference ...

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design
Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind....

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 ...

12 sustainable design ideas from nature

12 sustainable design ideas from nature
Janine Benyus provides examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. ...

Green Business Experts Author Climate Change Strategy Book

Green Business Experts Author Climate Change Strategy Book
In "Climate Change: What's Your business Strategy?" (Harvard Business Press, $18), due out May 1, 2008, Andrew Hoffman ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’
Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

Kraft, Marks & Spencer Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners

DuPont has announced the winners of the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognized "achievements that improve the ...

Today's News

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
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
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

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

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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