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Dow Ordered To Clean Up Neighborhood Downstream From Headquarters

Dow Ordered To Clean Up Neighborhood Downstream From Headquarters
The EPA has ordered Dow Chemical to clean up high levels of dioxin in homes and yards downstream from its world headquarters ...

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 ...

Solar Energy, Sustainable Packaging Create Buzz At Wineries

Solar Energy, Sustainable Packaging Create Buzz At Wineries
Far Niente, a winery in California's Napa Valley region, has installed a first-of-its-kind solar power array and the latest ...

First USPS Corporate VP Of Sustainability Named

First USPS Corporate VP Of Sustainability Named
The United States Postal Service appointed 33-year USPS veteran Sam Pulcrano as the agency's first corporate VP of sustainability, ...

Heinz Plans 20% Emissions Cut, Potato Peels Play A Part

Heinz Plans 20% Emissions Cut, Potato Peels Play A Part
Heinz' plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2015 includes converting potato peels into biofuel ...

Dean Foods Methane Project To Generate Power

Dean Foods Methane Project To Generate Power
Dean Foods says that by early 2009 it will operate an anaerobic digester to capture waste from the ...

Marriott Promo Benefits Amazon Rainforest

Marriott Promo Benefits Amazon Rainforest
Marriott announced that it will contribute funds to protect the endangered Brazilian Amazonas rainforest on behalf of its customers who book ...

Green Restaurant Association Working With PepsiCo Clients

Green Restaurant Association Working With PepsiCo Clients
PepsiCo Foodservice has partnered with the not-for-profit Green Restaurant Association to help PepsiCo customers become more environmentally sustainable. GRA will ...

Toyota Prototype Maps The Way For Green Dealerships

Toyota Prototype Maps The Way For Green Dealerships
By 2011, Toyota Motor Corp. expects to have 100 environmentally friendly dealerships -- or just under 10 percent of ...

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 ...

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Water Sustainability - What Can The Past Teach Us For The Future?

Water Sustainability - What Can The Past Teach Us For The Future?

Sustaining water resources has been an important factor in the development and survival of civilizations. The ability to use water in sufficient ... continue »

Are Consumers Falling Off The Green Wagon, And Should We Care?
Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!
Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Corporate CSR Skepticism Fueled by ‘Greenwashing Washout’

Corporate CSR Skepticism Fueled by ‘Greenwashing Washout’

With the eco-world on overdrive, overall skepticism in companies' corporate social responsibility initiatives is higher among LOHAS consumers, the portion of the ...

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‘Greenfluencers’ Are Small But Powerful Group Of Consumers
Carbon Market Worth $59 Billion In H1 2008
Mobile Phone Manufacturers Drop Ball On Recycling
Ceres On The Financial Sector’s Reaction To Climate Change

Ceres On The Financial Sector’s Reaction To Climate Change

Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, talks about what the financial sector is doing to tackle climate change....

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Frog’s Leap Winery Embraces Green Strategies
Leading Tech Companies Discuss Green Data Center Trends
PG&E Leads On Environmental And Sustainability Ed
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Corporate CSR Skepticism Fueled by ‘Greenwashing Washout’

WM Unveils ‘Pay To Recycle’ CFL Program - Will Consumers Buy?

FTC Examines Green Building, New Green Guides ‘Definitely’ In 2009

Emissions

Gore Calls For 100% Clean Energy by 2018, Keeps Straight Face

EU Harnesses Govt Spending Power to Support Green Products

Nordstrom Doubles Square Footage, Cuts Energy Consumption

Hi-Tech

‘Green Computing’ Vague, Misleading

5 IT Vendors Get New Recycling, Asset Disposal Certification

Leading Tech Companies Discuss Green Data Center Trends

Efficiency

Green GM Dealership In Detroit Cuts Energy More Than 50%

Stoel Rives Launches ‘Go Green Initiative’

Small and Midsize Firms Moving Towards Green Supply Chains

Manufacturing

Energy Audit Saves Haynes $500K

Bombardier Slashes CO2 Emissions

Cotton Inc. Says New FTC Green Guides Needed

Carbon Offsets/RECs

CDW’s Wisconsin Hosting Centers Go Green

Firm Adds ‘Renewable Energy Surchage’ To Customer Bills

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

CSR Reports

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Major Players

Alcoa Inks Hydropower Contract

Con-Way Leads SmartWay On Fuel Efficiency

Johnson Controls, IBM Develop Software For Data Center Management

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