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Cisco Saves $3M By Cutting Emissions, Waste From Supply Chain

Cisco Saves $3M By Cutting Emissions, Waste From Supply Chain
In Cisco's latest Corporate Social Responsibility Report, the company reports that it has saved more than $3 million ...

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports
Spada released its Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports (PDF) and said longer corporate responsibility reports ...

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards
The U.S. Army released a 2007 Sustainability Report (PDF) and reported that in FY 2007, 301 of new ...

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
The CSR Asia Business Barometer 2008 (PDF) - which compares the corporate social responsibility  disclosure of the 20 ...

FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

FedEx Cuts Aircraft Emissions, Increases Vehicle Fuel Efficiency
FedEx released its 2008 Global Citizenship Report (PDF) and announced that it plans to reduce aircraft emissions and ...

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IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%

IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%
IBM released its 2007-2008 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF) and reported that it exceeded its corporate goal of ...

Xerox Cut GHG Emissions 21% Since 2002

Xerox Cut GHG Emissions 21% Since 2002
Xerox Corp. released its 2008 Report on Global Citizenship, and announced that it has achieved a 21 percent ...

Cadbury Releases CSR Report on New Website ‘DearCadbury.com’

Cadbury Releases CSR Report on New Website ‘DearCadbury.com’
Cadbury launched a corporate social responsibility Web site called DearCadbury.com, which provides consumers information on ethical sourcing, ...

AMD Targets 33% Cut In Normalized GHG Emissions

AMD Targets 33% Cut In Normalized GHG Emissions
AMD released its eighth annual Global Climate Protection Plan (PDF). The company reports it surpassed its commitment ...

Criticized Companies Named Leaders In CSR Reporting

Criticized Companies Named Leaders In CSR Reporting
This Friday, Salter Baxter will publish its eighth annual study of corporate social responsibility. The study assesses the 50 ...

Coke Improves Water Use Efficiency 2%

Coke Improves Water Use Efficiency 2%
The Coca-Cola Company released its fifth annual Sustainability Review, “Act. Inspire. Make a Difference. A dialogue of progress and ...

U.S. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Doubles Since 2005

U.S. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Doubles Since 2005
Twice as many top U.S. companies publicly released sustainability data in 2008 compared with three years earlier, with ethics outweighing economics for ...

CSR Strategy: If You Build It, Will They Come?

CSR Strategy: If You Build It, Will They Come?
You might remember the movie Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner is constantly reminded, “If you build it, he will come.”  ...

Reckitt Benckiser Slashes GHG Emissions

Reckitt Benckiser Slashes GHG Emissions
Reckitt Benckiser released its 2007 Sustainability Report (PDF) and has achieved a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas ...

Nestle Aims to Reduce Carbon Intensity 20% In 5 Years

Nestle Aims to Reduce Carbon Intensity 20% In 5 Years
Nestle Waters North America has released its first corporate citizenship report, The Shape of Corporate Citizenship (PDF). The ...

Apple Releases Environmental Reports For MacBook, iMac, iPhone and iPods

Apple Releases Environmental Reports For MacBook, iMac, iPhone and iPods
Apple recently released what it touts as the industry's greenest laptop. Now, in its Environmental Performance 2008 ...

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007
Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) recently released its first CSR report (PDF). The company reported that it saved ...

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report
The World Steel Association recently released its 2008 sustainability report (PDF). The report is based on a ...

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report
AT&T Inc. released its 2007/2008 Citizenship and Sustainability Report (PDF). The company says it is reducing the ...

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades
Autodesk announced in its latest sustainability report that GHG emissions from its business operations in 2007 equaled about ...

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Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

In a recent EL column, John Rooks, president of The Soap Group, a company that focuses on sustainability communications, wrote that ... continue »

Sustainability - An Economic Imperative in the Current Economy
12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain
Server MPG – It’s Time for Action
Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.
Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

Eighty percent of corporate sustainability executives surveyed from across North America plan to maintain or increase levels of sustainability-related spending in 2009, ...

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Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders
Future Consumer Involvement in Environmental Protection
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable
UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

Yvo de Boer gave an update on a number of areas under discussion, including how to increase funding for Adaptation, particularly for ...

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UN Climate Change Conference Day 3 Press Briefing
United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Briefing
BMW, Vattenfall Begin Real-World Electric Car Test Next Month

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Marketing

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council

AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’

Emissions

MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution

U.S. GHG Emissions Up 1.4% In 2007

Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout

Hi-Tech

U-M Hopes Green Computing Will Cut Costs, Emissions

Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders

Tips On Dealing With IT Equipment After Layoffs

Efficiency

U.K. Introduces Legally-Binding Framework to Cut GHG Emissions

Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

GE Suspends Development Of High-Efficiency Incandescent Bulbs

Manufacturing

Ash Grove Cement Sues North Texas Cities Over ‘Green’ Resolutions

12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain

Plastic Waste Turned Into Armored Panels, Fleece Jackets

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions

Farmers Against Proposed ‘Cow Tax’

Consumer Goods Industry Needs Green Sourcing To Avoid Potential 47% Earnings Hit

CSR Reports

Cisco Saves $3M By Cutting Emissions, Waste From Supply Chain

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

Major Players

Banks Launch The Climate Principles

U.N. Suspends One Of Its Largest Auditors of Clean Energy Projects

Sustainability - An Economic Imperative in the Current Economy

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