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Starbucks, Staples, Three Others Join Better Buildings Challenge

June 15, 2012June 15, 2012 by Leon Walker

Starbucks Coffee, Staples, and The J.R. Simplot Company are among five companies that have this week joined the White House’s Better Buildings Challenge. Starbucks, Staples and Simplot have pledged to upgrade more than 50 million square feet of combined commercial building space, including 15 manufacturing facilities, as they strive to ... Read more »

Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Own Recycling Costs as Local Authorities Struggle

March 27, 2012March 27, 2012 by Leon Walker

Food and drink companies such as Starbucks are increasingly bearing the costs of recycling their own packaging, which they then turn into new products, according to the New York Times. Simple economics is driving the trend of “extended producer responsibility,” the article says. As the after-effects of the recession continue ... Read more »

Starbucks Sustainability Report: Water Consumption Up 5%, Energy Use Drops 4.5%

March 22, 2012April 2, 2012 by Leon Walker

Starbucks increased its water consumption by 5 percent year-on-year in 2011, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. The coffee giant has set a goal of reducing its water consumption by 25 percent in its company-owned stores by 2015, against a 2008 baseline. As of 2011, the company had cut ... Read more »

Adidas, General Mills Drop Off ‘Most Ethical’ List; Kellogg’s, Hasbro, Alcoa Join

March 19, 2012March 19, 2012 by Leon Walker

Starbucks, Patagonia and General Electric are among the 23 companies that have been named for six years running to Ethisphere’s Most Ethical Companies list, while Adidas and General Mills are among the major brands to have dropped off the list. Swedish electronics manufacturer Electrolux joined the list this year, as ... Read more »

Sustainability: Turning Philosophy into Competency

February 23, 2012 by Don Bray

At an executive briefing I recently attended, a panel of Fortune 500 CEOs was asked if their organizations aspired to leadership in sustainability. Polite laughter broke out, with comments like “would we really want to be up here advocating for the alternative?” They went on to say aspiration is no ... Read more »

Walmart Rockets from 15th to Third in EPA Green Power Rankings

February 1, 2012February 3, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Walmart has shot to third place on the EPA’s rankings of the country’s top green power purchasers, from 15th place just last quarter. The Green Power Partnership ranking, for the retailer’s Texas and California facilities alone, pushes Whole Foods down to fourth place. According to the EPA’s data, Walmart’s facilities ... Read more »

Microsoft, Coke, Nestle Detail Climate Adaptation Plans

January 30, 2012January 31, 2012 by Leon Walker

Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Nestle and Starbucks are among a slew of multinational companies listed in an online database just launched by the U.N. that details how the world’s major firms plan to address global warming. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Adaptation Private Sector Initiative contains details both ... Read more »

Starbucks Builds Store out of Shipping Containers

December 12, 2011December 16, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Starbucks is about to open a Seattle-area store made mostly out of four upcycled shipping containers, the New York Times reports. The prototype – unusual for Starbucks in that it is take-out only – may be followed by more container-based stores, company spokesman Alan Hilowitz said. He said Starbucks was ... Read more »

Starbucks Eyes Up Tim Hortons’ Cup-to-Tray Technology

November 29, 2011November 30, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Starbucks has expressed an interest in the technique that Canadian chain Tim Hortons is using to recycle its hot beverage cups into take-out trays, Waste & Recycling News reports. Dwight Whynot, president of Scotia Recycling, which is working with Tim Hortons on the project, says he got a call from ... Read more »

Starbucks, Alcoa Join Nasdaq Sustainability Index; Citi, JPMorgan Dropped

November 22, 2011December 16, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Alcoa, Caterpillar, Diageo, Fluor, Ingersoll-Rand, Reed Elsevier and Starbucks have been added to the Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index, while Advanced Micro Devices, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Petrobras, Raytheon and Shire plc have been dropped. The equity index, which seeks to provide a benchmark of companies taking a ... Read more »

Waste Briefing: Tim Hortons, Ford, Sonoco, Covanta

October 25, 2011October 25, 2011 by Leon Walker

Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons has unveiled a way to recycle its hot beverage cups into take-out trays. The project, developed with the help of CKF Inc. and Scotia Recycling Limited, could potentially see 100 percent of Tim Hortons’ annual Nova Scotia cup inventory recycled, the company says. ... Read more »

Seventh Gen, Whole Foods Top Green Brands Ranking

June 10, 2011June 10, 2011 by Leon Walker

Seventh Generation and Whole Foods have topped survey respondents’ rankings of the greenest U.S. brands, even as consumer appetite for green products expands to include big-ticket items like cars and electronics. Tom’s of Maine and Burt’s Bees came third and fourth in the rankings, compiled as part of the 2011 ... Read more »

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