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CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such as Coca-Cola, Petrobras, Fuji Xerox, China Ocean Shipping Group, Tata Steel...

Climate Counts Wants Shoppers To Make Climate-Based Buying Decisions

Climate Counts, a new nonprofit group, has released a scorecard that ranks consumer companies, grouped by industry, on how they measure greenhouse gas emissions, their plans to reduce them, their support or opposition to regulation, and how fully they disclose those activities, The New York Times reports. Gary Hirshberg, chief executive...

Green Marketing Not For The Faint Of Heart

Going green is a dangerous business, especially for companies whose actions aren't as substantive as their ads, AdAge reports. "Do you really dare put your head above the parapet by touting your greenness and attract very knowledgeable consumers who are going to crawl all over your business ... and Greenpeace and every other environmental group you can think of?" Mike

Best Buy, Sharp Launch Recycling Promotions

Best Buy has launched a consumer electronics recycling grant program that provides two streams of grants - the first stream will provide support for events hosted by 501©3 nonprofit organizations. The second stream will support events hosted by other organizations in cities and townships across the country (e.g., cities, counties, public-private partnerships). Grants will range from $500 to $1,500, depending

EU to Ban Inefficient Light Bulbs

The European Union's 490 million citizens will have to use energy-efficient lighting by the end of the decade, Reuters reports EU leaders as having decided. "The European Council ... invites the Commission to rapidly submit proposals to enable increased energy efficiency requirements for office and street lighting to be adopted by 2008 and on incandescent lamps and other forms of

GE Developing Incandescent Light Bulb That Matches CFL’s Efficiency

Don't count Thomas Edison out yet. GE says that advancements to the light bulb invented by GE’s founder Thomas Edison could potentially elevate the energy efficiency of this 125-year-old technology to levels comparable to compact fluorescent lamps. Over the next several years, these advancements could lead to the introduction of high-efficiency incandescent lamps that provide the same high light quality,

Yahoo Develops Web Site for CFL Campaign 18Seconds

Yahoo, Wal-Mart, Environmental Defense, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Energy, along with other private companies and government agencies, has launched a marketing campaign called 18Seconds to persuade people to switch to CFLs, AP reports. Yahoo has developed...

EPA: Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Need to Step Up CFL Recycling Initiatives

The Environmental Protection Agency and some large businesses, including Wal-Mart, are aggressively promoting the sale of compact fluorescent light bulbs. The move is gaining momentum. Recently, California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine introduced legislation to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs. Earlier this week, Australia announced it would phase out incandescents and yesterday, Greenpeace asked India to follow Australia's

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