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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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