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Whole Foods Tops Green Cosmetics Retailer Ranking

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 by Leon Walker

Whole Foods Market has been named the leading major retailer of non-toxic cosmetics in a report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The grocery chain scored nine out of a possible ten “kisses” in Retailer Therapy: Ranking Retailers on Their Commitment to Cosmetics Safety, which investigated cosmetics for sale at ... Read more »

Santander Brasil, Wipro, Bradesco, IBM Lead Global Green Rankings

October 22, 2012October 22, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Santander Brasil, Indian IT firm Wipro, Brazilian financial company Bradesco and US-based IBM topped this year’s Newsweek Green Rankings for global companies, while Singapore food company Wilmar, Coal India and agribusiness giant Monsanto took the bottom spots in the annual environmental ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in ... Read more »

Exxon, Microsoft, Target Added to Dow Jones Index; IBM Dropped

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Exxon, Microsoft, Canadian National Railway and Target are among the largest companies added to, and IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and United Technologies among those dropped from, one of the world’s leading sustainability indices. Swiss-based investment firm SAM and Dow Jones Indexes released the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Index review, which tracks the ... Read more »

Nike, Walmart, Levi’s Launch Sustainable Apparel Index

July 26, 2012July 27, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Walmart, Nike, Target, JC Penney, Levi’s and fellow members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition have unveiled the group’s index for measuring the environmental impact of apparel products across the supply chain. The Higg Index is an indicator-based tool for apparel that allows clothing manufacturers and brands to evaluate material types, ... Read more »

Target Sustainability Report: Carbon Intensity Down 5% Over 2007

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by Leon Walker

Retail giant Target decreased its carbon intensity measured on a per square foot basis by 5 percent and measured against sales by 3 percent from 2007 to 2011, putting the company on track to met its 2015 goals of a 10 and 20 percent reduction against those measurements respectively, according ... Read more »

Earth Day Briefing: Coke, Pepsi, Whole Foods, Target, Caribou Coffee

April 20, 2012April 20, 2012 by Leon Walker

It’s that time of year again. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22 companies have been unveiling green initiatives all over the place. Here’s a selection of those that caught our eye. Whole Foods Market has announced that it will become the first national retailer to no longer carry ... Read more »

Ford to Cut Landfill Waste 70%, Water 30% in Europe

February 2, 2012February 2, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Ford’s European operations plan to cut landfill waste 70 percent and water use 30 percent under a five-year sustainability strategy. The waste reduction goal will cut the average landfill waste generated per vehicle from 5 kg in 2011 to 1.5 kg by 2016. The water target will save 1.3 billion ... Read more »

Retailers Shrink Stores to Save Energy, Report Finds

January 26, 2012January 26, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Big-box retailers are gravitating towards smaller stores and distribution centers as they seek to reduce energy use, create transportation efficiencies and support communities, according to the first Retail Sustainability Report from the Retail Industry Leaders Association. RILA said the trend is for smaller, more efficient stores on brownfield sites. For ... Read more »

Cisco Behind on GHG Goal for 2012

December 8, 2011December 8, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Cisco is slipping in its quest to reduce scope 1, scope 2 and business air travel GHG emissions by 25 percent by 2012, with a 15 percent reduction from its 2007 baseline this financial year – down from 23 percent in 2010 and 37 percent in 2009, according to its ... Read more »

Target Pledges All-Sustainable Seafood by 2015

October 14, 2011October 17, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Target has announced that it will sell only sustainable and traceable seafood in its stores by 2015, through a partnership with non-profit FishWise. The retail chain defines sustainable and traceable seafood as the sourcing of seafood products that are caught or raised in an environmentally sensitive manner and maintain the ... Read more »

Target, McDonald’s, Others Save $650m through Climate Fellowship

September 22, 2011September 22, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

McDonald’s, Target and 76 other organizations have found $650 million in savings and 440,000 annual metric tons of CO2 reductions through this summer’s EDF Climate Corps fellowship. The Environmental Defense Fund said this year’s fellows, 96 specially-trained MBA and MPA students placed with 78 companies, cities and universities, found the ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: ISO-GRI Pact, Cadmium Jewelry Shelved, Banned Pesticide Lingers

September 8, 2011 by Environmental Leader

Target, Gap, and Saks Fifth Avenue are among 26 major retailers that have reached a settlement under California’s Proposition 65 to eliminate all but trace amounts of cadmium from jewelry and other accessories, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The settlement comes months before the state’s new limit on the amount ... Read more »

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