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Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency
Colgate-Palmolive has published its sustainability report. In 2007, Colgate's global CO2 emissions were approximately 675,000 metric tons, up from 664,000 ...

CEOs Call On G8 To Act On Global Water Crisis

CEOs Call On G8 To Act On Global Water Crisis
The CEOs of 19 of the world's largest corporations have called on G8 leaders to address the global ...

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings

Taco Bell: Yo Quiero Energy Savings
Taco Bell plans to install new "Grill-To-Order" cooking machines in all of their locations to reduce water and energy use and improve ...

Fiji Water Releases Carbon Footprint Of Products, Challenges Industry

Fiji Water Releases Carbon Footprint Of Products, Challenges Industry
Fiji Water has decided to disclose the carbon footprint of its products. To that end, the company has joined ...

Drinking Problems: Innovative Approaches to the World’s Water Crisis

Drinking Problems: Innovative Approaches to the World’s Water Crisis
March 22nd was World Water Day, and for many in the developed world, it passed without much notice. But elsewhere, more than ...

Tyson Releases CSR Report

Tyson Releases CSR Report
Tyson Foods has issued a corporate responsibility report (PDF). Absolute emissions from electricity have risen from 2.69 million metric ...

Scale Of Sodexo’s Recycled Napkin Program Saves Resources

Scale Of Sodexo’s Recycled Napkin Program Saves Resources
Sodexo says that after one year, its switch to recycled napkins in 1,300 foodservice operations nationwide has resulted ...

China Diverts Water Resources To Ensure ‘Green’ Games

China Diverts Water Resources To Ensure ‘Green’ Games
Beijing wants to look good when the upcoming summer games put it on the world's stage. To green up Beijing, the city's ...

Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies

Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies
Environmental stakeholders have changed from pesky activists to big investors - pension funds, state controllers, institutional investors, and ...

PepsiCo Promotes ‘Positive Water Balance’ On Labels

PepsiCo Promotes ‘Positive Water Balance’ On Labels
PepsiCo India is changing all of the labels on Aquafina, its bottle water brand, to announce that by next ...

Israeli Water Industry Wants To Quench World’s Thirst

Israeli Water Industry Wants To Quench World’s Thirst
After decades of developing water technologies, Israel is now exporting them, turning water into a potentially lucrative worldwide business....

NY Mets Unveil Citi Field’s Green Specs

NY Mets Unveil Citi Field’s Green Specs
The New York Mets have teamed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement several environmental measures in ...

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its 2008 Environmental Outlook. Without new policies, the world risks irreversibly ...

Foster’s Offsets Emissions Of ‘Cascade Green’

Foster’s Offsets Emissions Of ‘Cascade Green’
Foster's is offsetting all of the carbon emissions of its new lager, Cascade Green.The company says that ...

Nestle Releases CSR Report

Nestle Releases CSR Report
At a joint Nestle-UN Global Compact event in New York, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO of Nestle,  presented the ...

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics
GE sees its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics as a way to "prove to potential customers and shareholders in ...

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 ...

Alleged Clean Water Act Violations Cost Home Depot

Alleged Clean Water Act Violations Cost Home Depot
Home Depot has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty and implement a nationwide compliance program to resolve alleged ...

SustainAbility’s John Elkington On Freshwater Crisis

SustainAbility’s John Elkington On Freshwater Crisis
John Elkington, founder and chief entrepreneur of SustainAbility, speaks with journalist J. Carl Ganter at the World Economic Forum about the rising ...

Coke’s ‘Ethical Reputation’ Leads F&B Industry

Coke’s ‘Ethical Reputation’ Leads F&B Industry
The food & beverage industry is consolidating its ethical record thanks to labor and environmental initiatives, but it has ...

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

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

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
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....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Hi-Tech

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

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

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

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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