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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 ...

JPMorgan Greens HQ

JPMorgan Greens HQ
JPMorgan Chase is making its 50-story headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan more environmentally-friendly, Reuters reports, ...

IBM Launches New Center For Water Management in the Netherlands

IBM Launches New Center For Water Management in the Netherlands
IBM will establish a Global Center of Excellence for Water Management in Amsterdam. IBM says that the ...

Nestle, Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes, Others To Cut Water Use

Nestle, Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes, Others To Cut Water Use
A group of 21 companies, including Birds Eye Iglo, Cadbury Schweppes, GlaxoSmithKline, Nestlé UK, Premier Foods, Tate & Lyle, ...

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green
A 2007 survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and KDS revealed that only one-third of corporate ...

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report
Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report. "The process of compiling information for this report has taught ...

Climate Change Good for Sales Of Bottled Water

Climate Change Good for Sales Of Bottled Water
Citi analysts have released a report claiming that key bottled water companies and global water companies are poised to benefit from climate ...

Coke Tapped for Tappening

Coke Tapped for Tappening
In an effort to raise awareness on "tappening," Mark DiMassimo, creative director of marketing shop DiMassimo Goldstein, and Eric Yaverbaum, president of ...

Corporate Dollars Flow To Alliance For Water Efficiency

Corporate Dollars Flow To Alliance For Water Efficiency
Home Depot and Rain Bird are among the private corporations that have committed to become charter sponsors of the newly formed ...

Industrial Water Reuse Key To Sustainability

Industrial Water Reuse Key To Sustainability
A recent Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management report said that increased water reuse by industry would have a ...

McDonald’s Green Initiatives Different For Individual Markets

McDonald’s Green Initiatives Different For Individual Markets
McDonald's has discovered that with 31,000-plus restaurants in in 118 countries, coming up with one environmental blueprint for all of its restaurants ...

PepsiCo Releases CSR Report

PepsiCo Releases CSR Report
PepsiCo has released its Performance with Purpose Corporate Sustainability Report for 2006-2007. Here are some of the numbers: Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) ...

Arby’s To Install Solar Water Heaters At 33 Locations

Arby’s To Install Solar Water Heaters At 33 Locations
Thirty-three Arby's restaurants in North Carolina are switching from conventional natural gas hot water heaters to solar powered hot water heaters. A ...

Toyota Releases Environmental Report, Plans 2.2 MW Solar Power System

Toyota Releases Environmental Report, Plans 2.2 MW Solar Power System
Toyota Motor Sales, USA has issued the first update on progress toward the goals and targets in the its 2011 Environmental Action ...

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released a short-term action plan (PDF) to begin reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas ...

Coors Announces Plans To Cut Emissions

Coors Announces Plans To Cut Emissions
Coors Brewing Company plans to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent, indexed to its production level, by 2010. The ...

Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint

Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint
A Sao Paulo design agency, Chelles & Hayashi, aims to help companies create products that reduce the amount of raw material ...

Oil Spill Delays Crab Season

Oil Spill Delays Crab Season
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive-order suspending all fishing and crabbing for human consumption in areas affected by last week's ...

GE Says Metal Preparation Process Saves Roper Money, Water

GE Says Metal Preparation Process Saves Roper Money, Water
Roper Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric that manufactures cooking appliances, has reduced its annual water consumption by more than ...

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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 »

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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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