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Eat Sustainable Easter Eggs, Save the Rainforest

March 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Divine Chocolate and Booja Booja make the most rainforest-friendly Easter eggs, according to a survey of chocolate brands based on their use of palm oil, while Lindt, Thorntons and Guylian rank at the bottom of the list. Ethical Consumer magazine and Rainforest Foundation UK ranked more than 70 UK chocolate ... Read more »

Starbucks Expands $70m Sourcing Program

March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Starbucks Coffee Company is expanding its $70 million ethical sourcing program with a new farming research and development center in Costa Rica intended to help coffee farmers around the world mitigate climate change impact and support long-term crop stability. The company says these programs are part of its ongoing billion-dollar ... Read more »

GE, Starbucks Make ‘Most Ethical’ List; Patagonia, Best Buy Drop Off

March 7, 2013March 8, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Patagonia and Rabobank have fallen off the World’s Most Ethical Companies list after six straight years, while General Electric, Starbucks and American Express are among the 15 organizations to make the list for seven years running. First-time recipients Visa and Sherwin-Williams also made Ethisphere’s 2013 list, which includes 138 companies, ... Read more »

Starbucks to Eliminate Uncertified Palm Oil by 2015

February 26, 2013 by Leon Walker

Starbucks has agreed to purchase 100 percent of its palm oil from certified sustainable suppliers by 2015, according to Green Century Capital Management. Starbucks made the change in response to a shareholder resolution filed by the Green Century Balanced Fund, which describes itself as an environmentally responsible mutual fund. Green ... Read more »

Democrats Canvas Walmart, NFL, Apple on Climate Change Strategies

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Congressional Democrats’ Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change has written to Google, the NBA, the NFL, Walmart, Wells Fargo, the Clinton Global Initiative and more than 300 other organizations to canvas their opinions on combating global warming. The letter, which was also sent to companies including Whole Foods, Target, Ford, ... Read more »

Starbucks Sells $1 Reusable Cups

January 4, 2013November 13, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Starbucks began selling $1 reusable cups to customers at all of its North American stores yesterday, in an effort to curb waste. The white plastic cup with the green Starbucks logo looks like the coffee maker’s traditional white paper cups, according to media reports. It holds a tall or grande-size ... Read more »

U. of Arizona Aims to Cut Energy Bill 5-10% Using Online Dashboard

October 19, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The University of Arizona hopes to cut its energy bill by 5 to 10 percent a year by showing students campus usage in real time via an online dashboard, KVOA Tucson reports. The school spends about $37 million on utilities annually, Dan McCrady, a member of the UA Energy Management ... Read more »

Shareholders Urge P&G to Take Financial Responsibility for Recycling

October 9, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Procter & Gamble investors and public interest groups including As You Sow, Conservation Law Foundation, Cradle2 Coalition, Trillium Asset Management and Walden Asset Management are urging the company to support a pending shareholder proposal to study the feasibility of taking financial responsibility for recycling post-consumer product packaging. The organizations presented ... Read more »

Google-Funded 845 MW Wind Farm Goes Online

September 26, 2012September 26, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Google-backed wind farm in Oregon is operational and generating up to 845 MW of wind energy. The Shepherds Flat project is one of the largest on-shore wind farms in the world, according to Oregon officials and developer Caithness Energy, and will eliminate 1.483 million metric tons of CO2 annually. ... Read more »

Johnson & Johnson, Starbucks, 17 Other Companies Tell Congress to Extend Wind Tax Credit

September 24, 2012September 25, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, Sprint and 16 other companies have sent a letter to Congress, urging elected officials to extend the wind production tax credit (PTC) before it expires at the end of 2012. The PTC, originally signed into law by President George H.W. Bush seven years ago, provides a ... Read more »

Lucid, HonestBuildings.com Provide Real-Time Energy Usage for ‘Thousands of Commercial Buildings’

September 21, 2012September 24, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Cleantech software company Lucid and HonestBuildings.com have partnered to provide real-time energy usage for thousands of commercial buildings across the US. This allows anyone to type in an address and access performance data for buildings listed on the HonestBuidlings.com platform, such as the LEED gold-certified Koch Science Center at Deerfield ... Read more »

Consumers More Willing to Buy from Brands Using Renewable Energy

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sixty two percent of consumers surveyed said they would be more willing to buy products from brands using wind energy, according to a study commissioned by turbine maker Vestas. The Global Consumer Wind Study 2012, an annual survey produced by TNS Gallup, also showed that 79 percent of consumers prefer ... Read more »

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