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Business Benefits Drive Companies’ Shift to Clean Energy

December 10, 2012 by Linda Hardesty

A new report from Calvert Investments, Ceres and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) shows that most of the world’s largest companies aren’t waiting on governments to embrace renewable energy and lower emissions. The world’s behemoth companies are expanding their use of renewable energy because it makes good business sense. They see the ... Read more »

Efficient Set-Top Boxes ‘to Save $1.5 Bn’ – But NRDC Cries Foul

December 7, 2012December 7, 2012 by Leon Walker

A consortium of 15 TV providers and set-top-box manufacturers including Comcast, DirecTV, Cisco and Motorola have announced a Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement that they say will result in annual residential electricity savings of $1.5 billion – but the National Resources Defense Council has dismissed the announcement as little more ... Read more »

AT&T Breaks Cell Phone Recycling Record

November 15, 2012November 15, 2012 by Leon Walker

By recycling 50,942 devices during a one-week period, AT&T customers broke the world record for collecting the most wireless devices in a week, as certified by Guinness World Records. In 2011, AT&T collected about three million cell phones for reuse and recycling and, thanks in part to its new trade-in ... Read more »

Cell Phone Makers to Drop Plastic Inserts

November 6, 2012February 15, 2013 by Leon Walker

AT&T, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are among members of wireless communications industry body CTIA committing to package sustainability goals that include eliminating plastic inserts and trays from postpaid wireless device packaging by the end of 2013. Other goals set out by CTIA’s Green Working Group include labelling ... Read more »

AT&T to Connect Users With Smart Bike Share Program

October 5, 2012October 8, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

AT&T will be the exclusive mobile internet provider in the United States for Social Bicycles, a company that builds smart bikes equipped with an integrated locking system and GPS tracking. Social Bicycles, or SoBi, will use only AT&T wireless networks to help users locate, reserve and unlock bikes through a ... Read more »

AT&T Becomes Bloom Energy’s Largest Corporate Customer

October 3, 2012October 3, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

AT&T announced plans to more than double its contract with Bloom Energy and add another 9.6 MW of fuel cell power. The fuel cell installations will bring AT&T’s total to 17.1 MW spread over 28 sites, including data centers, in California and Connecticut, making the communications company the largest non-utility ... Read more »

AT&T and RMI Developing Energy Strategy for 65,000 Buildings

September 25, 2012September 25, 2012 by Leon Walker

Rocky Mountain Institute and AT&T are working together to improve energy efficiency across the company’s 65,000 facilities in over 60 countries, and share the results with others, as part of the 2012 Portfolio Energy RetroFit Challenge. Launched by RMI earlier this year, the Portfolio RetroFit Challenge aims to demonstrate to ... Read more »

AT&T Launches Low-Energy, Recycled Content Chargers

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 by Leon Walker

AT&T has launched a line of phone chargers with housings made of at least 30 percent post-consumer plastics. The wall and car chargers are also Energy Star 5-rated, meaning that they use “minimal “power when plugged in, AT&T says. The wall chargers also meet California’s Energy Commission 2013 efficiency standards ... Read more »

AT&T Launches Cell Phone Eco-Rating System

July 31, 2012July 31, 2012 by Leon Walker

AT&T has launched its eco-ratings system in stores, allowing customers to compare cell phones’ environmental impacts. The rating system – which has been developed in collaboration with sustainable business strategists BSR – rates mobile devices on 15 specific criteria in five categories: hazardous substances, environmentally preferable materials, product energy efficiency, end ... Read more »

McDonald’s, AT&T, Hilton Execs Tell How To ‘Sell Sustainability’

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sustainability officers and managers at McDonald’s, Novelis, AT&T, DuPont, EMC and Hilton Worldwide, among others, say one of the keys to selling sustainability inside their companies is to communicate environmental issues in language business leaders understand – not sustainability jargon, according to a new report that surveyed more than 30 ... Read more »

AT&T, Sprint Top Telecoms Sustainability Metrics

July 24, 2012July 25, 2012 by Leon Walker

AT&T leads the US sustainable telecoms market in customer offerings and Sprint in corporate sustainability performance, according to a new study from independent analyst firm Verdantix. Smaller operators like CenturyLink, Level 3, Earthlink and Windstream have not invested as much as their larger competitors, according to Green Quadrant Sustainable Telecoms ... Read more »

IBM, Accenture Top Best Corporate Citizens in Government Contracting List

July 20, 2012May 18, 2016 by Kirsten Korosec

IBM landed the top spot on CR Magazine’s list of Best Corporate Citizens in Government Contracting 2012, followed by Accenture, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and Dell. Merck & Co., UPS, Lockheed Martin Corp., Verizon Communications and Boeing rounded out the top 10 in the list of 40 companies. Meanwhile, Huntington Ingalls Industries, ... Read more »

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