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Retailers, Check Your Shorts (or be Bamboozled)

September 6, 2009September 14, 2010 by Kevin Tuerff

Why would the big bad Federal Trade Commission go after a small business rather than a big retailer for violating consumer protection laws prohibiting false green product claims? The FTC recently charged four sellers of clothing and other textile products with “bamboozling” consumers by deceptively labeling and advertising goods as ... Read more »

Carbon Disclosure Demands on the Rise: Is Your Organization Ready?

August 26, 2009September 14, 2010 by George Ahn

Home Depot battled negative headlines in May when shareholders voted down a resolution to enforce more rigid and transparent energy efficiency measures. The resolution proposed that the organization assess company-wide energy use from its buildings, transportation and supply chain. It also urged Home Depot to set energy use reduction targets ... Read more »

A Greener View of Corporate ‘Eco’-nomics

August 19, 2009September 14, 2010 by Dan Hesse

Our country has been transformed by numerous periods of historic and evolutionary change – from the Industrial Revolution to the dot-com bubble and the age of the Internet. Today, we are in the midst of a new “green” era. Today’s U.S. consumer is demanding a “call to action” for corporations ... Read more »

Show Sustainability Sales Success to Climb Corporate Ranks

July 1, 2009October 19, 2009 by Paul Nastu

For sustainability executives to climb the corporate ladder beyond the specter of sustainability, they must ensure that their firm’s sustainability efforts translate into increased sales or market share, according to Ethical Corporation. It doesn’t help that sustainability itself is a relatively recent business sector that has many critics. Even as ... Read more »

10 Climate Change Actions I’d Like To See By Tomorrow

June 4, 2009September 14, 2010 by Kevin Tuerff

If you’ve spent any time on Facebook, MySpace or any other social network, you’ve seen them: memes, those strange hybrids of straw polls and unbidden confessions. “Top 10 Albums,” “10 Things You Should Know About Me,” and so on…. At UNFCCC events in Bali and Poznán, I learned how other ... Read more »

FedEx Plans to Use 30% Biofuels by 2030

May 1, 2009October 18, 2009 by Paul Nastu

By 2030, FedEx plans to obtain 30 percent of its fuel from biodiesel, ethanol and other second-generation biofuels. The biodiesel would be derived from jatropha and the ethanol from switchgrass, said Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx, during remarks at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce avaiation forum, according to an article ... Read more »

FedEx CEO: Tax Carbon, Don’t Institute Cap-and-Trade

April 21, 2009October 18, 2009 by Paul Nastu

FedEx Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith said he is in favor of a carbon tax, but that he does not agree with the Obama Administration’s proposal for a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions. Smith has been outspoken on energy issues, saying that ending our oil dependency will save money and ... Read more »

WSJ ECO:nomics Conference Roundup

March 6, 2009March 5, 2009 by Paul Nastu

ECO:nomics, a conference hosted March 4-6 by The Wall Street Journal in Santa Barbara, Calif., has generated much discussion. Here is a smattering of the coverage so far. Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally admitted that his company has some work to do to win back customers. He said Ford’s ... Read more »

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