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CSR Report: Intel On Track To Reduce GHG Emissions 30% By 2010

CSR Report: Intel On Track To Reduce GHG Emissions 30% By 2010
Intel is on track to reach  its goal of reducing its total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent per unit of ...

Dow’s Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver Big Return

Dow’s Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver Big Return
Dow Chemical spent roughly $1 billion between 1995 and 2005 on refining its energy efficiency practices, investing in new clean-tech technologies, and ...

EPA Releases ‘2008 Report On The Environment’

EPA Releases ‘2008 Report On The Environment’
The EPA has released its 2008 Report on the Environment, which the agency says uses scientific indicators to measure and report ...

Green Planning Tool Launched By NRDC

Green Planning Tool Launched By NRDC
A Green Planning tool from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greening Advisor, is being billed as a Web-based ...

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 ...

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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....

Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons

Performance Track Members Reduce GHG Emissions Nearly 310,000 Tons
EPA released its Sixth Annual Progress Report for the National Environmental Performance Track program, which encourages facilities ...

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 ...

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The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ... continue »

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities
Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue ...

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$5.2 Billion Invested in Cleantech Since January 2007
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Plastic From Plants Gets Some Airtime

Plastic From Plants Gets Some Airtime

Short video from an NBC affiliate on new developments in using plants to create sustainable packaging....

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Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change
Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Apple Unveils ‘Industry’s Greenest Notebook’

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Emissions

Owens Corning To Cut GHG Emissions 25%

CEA Saving Energy With Expanded Telework Policy

Italy’s Metal Industry: EU’s Carbon Law Hurts Competitiveness

Hi-Tech

Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Efficiency

Sears Tower Spending $145 Million On Green - Turbines, Solar In Mix

Dairy’s Carbon Footprint Drops to 12 Pounds Per Gallon

California Tops ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Want A Smaller Carbon Footprint? Pick A Different Ruler

Financial Crisis Threatens EU’s Carbon Plans

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

PR Agency Warned Starbucks About Wasteful Water Policy

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

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