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Nasdaq Sustainability Index: Which Companies Are In/Out?

June 1, 2015May 29, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Nasdaq OMX Group and CRD Analytics have announced the results of the semi-annual re-ranking of the Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index. The following nine securities will be added to the Index: Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Campbell Soup Company, Consolidated Edison, DirecTV, FedEx, NRG Energy, Tesla Motors and Verizon. As ... Read more »

SolarCity, DIRECTV Enter Marketing Partnership

March 12, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

At DIRECTV’s California Broadcast Center facility in Long Beach, California, SolarCity recently installed a 1 MW solar system. But in addition to that contract, DIRECTV and SolarCity are teaming up for a marketing partnership. Under the new service relationship, DIRECTV technicians visiting customers’ homes and businesses will be able to ... Read more »

Three Companies Join R2 Recycling Leaders

December 4, 2014December 10, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Arrow Electronics, Blancco and JT Environmental Consulting are the three latest companies to join the R2 Recycling Leader program. The R2 Leader program, developed by SERI, recognizes leadership on electronics recycling issues, and connects participating groups to additional projects or opportunities. R2 Leaders agree to take a leadership role in ... Read more »

OneSource Freight Joins R2 Recycling Leader Program

October 24, 2014October 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Transportation and logistics provider OneSource Freight has joined SERI’s R2 Recycling Leaders program, which recognizes leadership efforts in electronics recycling among companies and nonprofits organizations. OneSource Freight has been a consistent supporter of the R2 Standard since its development in 2008, and provided guidance in the drafting of Provision 12 ... Read more »

Recycle Across America Joins R2 Recycling Leader Program

August 25, 2014August 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Recycle Across America is the newest group to join the R2 Recycling Leader program, which is designed to support efforts by companies and organizations to advance the responsible reuse and recycling of used electronics. RAA is a nonprofit that has developed a standardized labeling system for recycling bins to help ... Read more »

Electronics Companies Form Recycling Coalition

June 10, 2014June 12, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

DirecTV, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony and Xerox are among the founding partners of a program to encourage companies to responsibly reuse and recycle electronics. The Sustainable Electronics Recycling International’s (SERI) R2 Responsible Recycling Leader Program launches with a coalition of 10 partners including Goodwill Industries International, Greeneye Partners, Keep America Beautiful, ... Read more »

CE Industry Sets E-Waste Recycling Record

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Led by Apple, Best Buy, Dell and DirecTV, the consumer electronics (CE) industry set a new record in 2013 by recycling 620 million pounds of electronics in the US, more than double the total of three years ago, according to the Consumer Electronic Association’s Third Annual Report of the eCycling ... Read more »

Cable TV Box Standards to Cut 5M Tons CO2 Annually

December 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Comcast, DirecTV, Cisco, AT&T and other consumer electronics and pay-TV companies, along with the Energy Department and other organizations, have developed standards for cable TV boxes expected to avoid more than 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. The voluntary agreement between the DOE, Natural Resources Defense ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Ikea, LA Metro, Honda, Volvo, Boulder Electric Vehicle

July 1, 2013August 13, 2013 by Leon Walker

Ikea plans to add 24 of Ecotality’s Blink electric vehicle charging stations across eight more locations in the US. Installation should be completed this summer at seven stores in Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Texas, as well as the US corporate office. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors has approved a ... Read more »

Mitsubishi, Applied Materials Dropped From FTSE4Good; Salesforce.com Added

March 11, 2013March 11, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Mitsubishi Corp., Swiss-based healthcare equipment provider Nobel Biocare and US semiconductor makers Applied Materials and Micron Technology have been dropped from the FTSE4Good Index for failing to meet environment or social criteria required to remain on the series of ethical investment stock market indices. The FTSE4Good, which was launched in ... 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 »

USGBC, FTSE Launch Green Property Index for Investors

November 15, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

FTSE Group, the US Green Building Council and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts have jointly developed green property indexes for institutional and retail investors. The indexes have been designed to give investors a structured way to measure and model the risk and reward profile of green property, ... Read more »

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