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HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback
Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

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....

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

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 ...

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 ...

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling
HP and the State of California have teamed up to create a recycling tracking program for HP printing cartridges....

Primo Water Touts Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic

Primo Water Touts Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic
Primo Water's marketing team has put together a promotional video series that is on YouTube. It touts that the bottles are made ...

Poorest Children Face Biggest Climate Change Impact

Poorest Children Face Biggest Climate Change Impact
A new report warns the world's poorest children face the biggest impact from climate change. Following its findings, UNICEF UK is calling ...

Environmental Defense Fund’s Fred Krupp On Renewable Energy

Environmental Defense Fund’s Fred Krupp On Renewable Energy
Green Canary Sustainability CEO Kevin Tuerff interviews Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund about his new book, "Earth: The Sequel" and ...

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....

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. ...

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically ...

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel
CNN has an interesting video on Vertigro. Glen kertz grows algae in bags suspended in a greenhouse. Oil is extracted and turned ...

Planet Green Prepares For Launch

Planet Green Prepares For Launch
Planet Green is hoping to tap into corporate America's new focus on eco friendliness. The channel will launch June 4th and its ...

GE, Gamesa, Siemens, Vestas Talk Up Renewable Energy Tax Credit

GE, Gamesa, Siemens, Vestas Talk Up Renewable Energy Tax Credit
Senior executives from four of the world’s top wind turbine manufacturers - GE Energy, Gamesa, Siemens and Vestas - joined today in ...

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks
Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

MIO Founder Jaime Salm On Sustainable Design

MIO Founder Jaime Salm On Sustainable Design
Greenerbusiness interview with Jaime Salm, founder of MIO, the sustainable design firm based out of Philadelphia....

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union says it's the first North American-based financial institution to be carbon neutral, two years ahead of schedule. Over ...

Why Congress Is Avoiding A Global Warming Vote

Why Congress Is Avoiding A Global Warming Vote
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page writer Joe Rago speaking last week on whether Congress is avoiding a vote on global warming....

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
Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers are calling on brands to take responsibility for reducing the impact of climate change as governments fail to make progress, according ...

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Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

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Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
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

UPS Orders 500 Hybrid, CNG Delivery Trucks

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality

Nissan Electric Car Headed To U.S. By 2010

Hi-Tech

HP Exec On Product Takeback

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Efficiency

DOE: Wind Could Supply 20 Percent of U.S. Electricity By 2030

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

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

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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