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Nau’s Success Depends On Getting People Out The Door

Apparel startup Nau launched a new clothing line this spring made entirely of recycled polyester, certified organic fabrics, and biodegradable corn fiber. Because the fabrics are 25 percent to 30 percent more expensive than those used by other apparel makers, the company's success depends on an experimental retail strategy, BusinessWeek reports. Nau is building stores, called WebFronts. Instead of encouraging

Catalyst Releases Sustainability Report

Catalyst Paper has released its 2006 sustainability report (full report PDF, environmental section PDF). Catalyst was the top performer in a recent Globe article that graded nine Canadian Forest industry companies on their corporate social responsibility performance. Here are a few of the environmental highlights of the report: As a member of the...

Climate Change Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Investors, environmentalists and business leaders are cautiously optimistic that sustainability conditions in North America and developing countries will improve in the next two decades, according to the Ceres “Advancing Sustainable Prosperity� survey conducted last week at the Ceres annual conference in Boston. Attendees at the two-day conference were queried on a range of topics pertaining to sustainability – the issues,

IT Departments Must Reduce, Replace & Reuse

IT departments must exploit technology in a commercially productive way for the benefit of the entire business, and in a sustainable way for the benefit of the environment, according to an article in IT-Director by Rob Bamforth, principal analyst at Quocirca. According to Bamforth, there are 3 areas of focus—reduce, replace and re-use...

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan

A group of companies and organizations from around the world, including Allianz, Bayer, Citigroup, DuPont, General Electric, and Volvo have endorsed a post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly in regard to creating sustainable energy systems necessary for achieving economic growth. The Path to Climate Sustainability: A Joint Statement by the Global Roundtable on

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy

President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit Free Press reports. The proposed budget for the Department of Energy includes $42 million for developing batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles, a modest increase from last year's $31-million request. The administration's request for vehicle efficiency...

Climate Savers Looking for 1,300 Members

Twelve corporations in WWF's Climate Savers Program are on course to eliminate at least ten million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually by 2010. Members include Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Nike, Polaroid, Collins, Xanterra, Sagawa, Sony, Lafarge, Catalyst, Tetra Pak, and Novo Nordisk, met last week in Paris. If 1,300 more large companies join them, this would fulfil the current


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