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Teknion, Earthcycle Packaging, Mercer Among Globe Winners

Winners of the 6th annual Globe Awards for Environmental Excellence have been presented in four categories: Corporate Competitiveness, Technology Innovation and Application, Sustainable Investment and Banking, and Excellence in Urban Sustainability. Teknion, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of office systems won for the Corporate Competitiveness Award. Two-year-old, Vancouver-based...

Consumer Products Industry Ahead Of Retailers On Sustainability

Eighty-five percent of U.S. consumer business companies have active sustainability initiatives; most common are recycling and energy conservation programs, according to a study, Sustainability: Balancing Opportunity and Risk in the Consumer Products Industry, conducted by Deloitte Consulting for the Grocery Manufacturers Association. While

Private Industry’s Green Purchasing Impacts Suppliers, Consumers

Companies like Wal-Mart, FedEx, Home Depot and Office Depot are flexing their corporate environmental power, extending their green policies beyond their own operations to impact suppliers and consumers, according to Medill Reports. While individual consumers’ purchasing habits have proven slow and difficult to change, private industry has...

Home Depot To Plant 3 Million Trees As Part of $100 Million Pledge

The Home Depot Foundation announced a 10-year, $100 million commitment to support efforts to make communities healthier and more stable. In total, the pledge will support the development of 100,000 affordable, healthy homes, and the planting and preservation of more than 3 million community trees over the next decade. The Foundation says it is making this long-term commitment because many

Report: Catalyst Top Canadian Forest Industry CSR Performer

Transforming the forest industrty into an environmentally sustainable one remains a challenge, The Globe and Mail reports. Producing paper and wood products still generates significant air and water pollution, and companies such as Abitibi-Consolidated, Norbord, Tembec and West Fraser Timber have all paid significant fines for violating environmental regulations in recent years. The Globe article grades nine Canadian Forest industry

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