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Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project
Members of Waco-based Mars Snackfood and representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unwrapped the candy company's first ...

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discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced an online Innovation Hotel, to gather feedback from travelers about "green" features that ...

Pepsi’s Thinner Bottles Save Plastic, Help Environment

Pepsi’s Thinner Bottles Save Plastic, Help Environment
A 20-percent reduction in plastic used to make Pepsi's 500ml flavored non-carbonated beverage bottles has resulted in its lightest bottle yet. The ...

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste

Motorola Releases 2007 CSR Report, Reclassification Doubles Haz Waste
In its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report Motorola, Inc. highlights actions the company has taken on social, accountability and ...

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 ...

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

Hearst Tower Sets Zero-Waste Policy

Hearst Tower Sets Zero-Waste Policy
Hearst Corporation has begun implementing a zero-waste policy at its Manhattan headquarters, making it among the first corporations to ...

Target Launches First-Class Recycling Campaign

Target Launches First-Class Recycling Campaign
In case you missed this, the April 8 issue of Newsweek, on sale April 8, has a cover that ...

McDonald’s Trims Trips To The Landfill

McDonald’s Trims Trips To The Landfill
McDonald's has been running a trial program at 11 Sheffield, UK restaurants to save on the rising cost of ...

Hospitals Cut Waste By Recycling Single-Use Devices

Hospitals Cut Waste By Recycling Single-Use Devices
Hospitals are starting to recycle and reuse items that are labeled for single use - scissors, scrubs, even surgical ...

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%
BASF has published its Report 2007, which for the first time combines the company's financial and sustainability reporting ...

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing
By studying the Earth's biosphere, managers can learn how to build ecologically friendly products that reduce manufacturing costs, ...

Sony Recycles Commercials To Promote Recycling

Sony Recycles Commercials To Promote Recycling
Sony has pulled some old commercials out of the closet to promote dozens of free consumer recycling events, AdAge ...

Environmental Concerns Give Garbage Disposals New Life In Europe

Environmental Concerns Give Garbage Disposals New Life In Europe
InSinkErator, a unit of Emerson Electric, had virtually no sales in Europe in the early 1990s, where garbage ...

Cadbury Unveils Eco-Eggs

Cadbury Unveils Eco-Eggs
Cadbury has unveiled a range of 'eco-eggs' called Cadbury Treasure Eggs, which rather than being sold in a ...

Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste

Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste
Subaru says that 99.8 percent of the refuse from its Indiana plant - on track to produce 180,000 cars ...

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts
According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, ...

Pro Sports Go Green

Pro Sports Go Green
When the Philadelphia Eagles launched its Go Green campaign in 2003, it was the first pro athletic team ...

Waste Management Launches Green Consumer Website

Waste Management Launches Green Consumer Website
Waste Management launched thinkgreen.com, a marketing campaign that includes an interactive Website that shows consumers how to manage ...

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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