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MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution

MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution
As part of Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps program, MBA students helped companies identify opportunities to save $35 ...
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Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout

Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout
Last month when executives from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler went to Washington to seek a $25 billion public ...
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U-M Hopes Green Computing Will Cut Costs, Emissions

U-M Hopes Green Computing Will Cut Costs, Emissions
The University of Michigan kicked off its campus-wide green effort in March in hopes of reducing its IT-related electricity ...
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U.K. Introduces Legally-Binding Framework to Cut GHG Emissions

U.K. Introduces Legally-Binding Framework to Cut GHG Emissions
Last week, the U.K. became the first country in the world to introduce a legally-binding framework to cut GHG ...
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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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GE Suspends Development Of High-Efficiency Incandescent Bulbs

GE Suspends Development Of High-Efficiency Incandescent Bulbs
Tyler Hamilton writes in the Clean Break blog that General Electric has suspended the development of its high-efficiency ...
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Food and Drink Federation Members Cut CO2 Emissions 17% Since 1990

Food and Drink Federation Members Cut CO2 Emissions 17% Since 1990
Food and Drink Federation members have slashed their CO2 emissions by 17 percent since 1990, the equivalent of reducing ...
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IKEA Expects 30% of Its Wood to Meet FSC Standards In Near Future

IKEA Expects 30% of Its Wood to Meet FSC Standards In Near Future
Anders Dalhvig, IKEA's president and CEO, recently spoke with CNNMoney.com about the companies sustainable strategies. Dalhvig says the ...
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Industry Deals With Rising Cost of Food Waste With Innovation

Industry Deals With Rising Cost of Food Waste With Innovation
Historically high commodity prices are making restaurants, colleges, hospitals and other institutions deal with the rising costs of waste ...
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Gap’s CSR Executive Discusses Green Journey

Gap’s CSR Executive Discusses Green Journey
Kindley Walsh-Lawlor, senior director of Social Responsibility and Environmental Affairs with Gap Inc., shared her insights into the company's ...
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12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain

12 Steps To A ‘Greener’ Supply Chain
In the 12-step movement, they say admitting you have a problem is the first step toward recovery. And when it comes to energy ...
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Broadway Launches Green Initiatives

Broadway Launches Green Initiatives
The Broadway theater community has outlined a series of goals as part of a new environmental initiative. “Broadway ...
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Club Owners: Partying Can Be Green Too

Club Owners: Partying Can Be Green Too
Greenhouse, a new club in downtown Manhattan, is putting green on top of its agenda, New York Times ...
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Nestle Wants Suppliers To Pursue Sustainability

Nestle Wants Suppliers To Pursue Sustainability
Nestle Waters North America's president and CEO Kim Jeffery told Plastics & Rubber Weekly that the company is ...
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Greenpeace Says Electronics Guide Reveals Lack of Climate Leadership

Greenpeace Says Electronics Guide Reveals Lack of Climate Leadership
Nokia remained in first place in Greenpeace's 10th edition of the Greener Electronics Guide. The company scored 6.9 ...
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LED Suppliers Expect Biz to Double to $8.61 By 2011

LED Suppliers Expect Biz to Double to $8.61 By 2011
LED suppliers are targeting commercial and industrial power users because there is a shorter time frame for return on ...
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Kokuyo Opens Rooftop Office To Cut CO2, Workers Get Blankets

Kokuyo Opens Rooftop Office To Cut CO2, Workers Get Blankets
In an effort to cut back on electricity usage and CO2 emissions, office supplies manufacturer Kokuyo Co. opened a “garden office” on ...
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12-State Report Finds Over $1 Billion Spent On ESPC Projects

12-State Report Finds Over $1 Billion Spent On ESPC Projects
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO) issued a new report, “Performance Contracting ...
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More than 900 U.S. Mayors Sign Climate Protection Agreement

More than 900 U.S. Mayors Sign Climate Protection Agreement
The United States Conference of Mayors announced that more than 900 mayors have signed the U.S. Conference of ...
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Green Spending And The Uncertain Economy

Green Spending And The Uncertain Economy
With the economic crisis, the green movement has been slowing down due to tightening cash flows. But Andrew Winston ...
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Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green
Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council
Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council

MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution
MBA Students Help Companies Identify Cost Savings, Cut Pollution

U.S. GHG Emissions Up 1.4% In 2007
U.S. GHG Emissions Up 1.4% In 2007

AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’
AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’

UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing
UN Climate Change Conference Day 4 Press Briefing

Green Earth Technologies Makes Motor Oil From Animal Fat
Green Earth Technologies Makes Motor Oil From Animal Fat

Office Depot Reports Growing Interest in Green Office Products
Office Depot Reports Growing Interest in Green Office Products

Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout
Big Three Automakers Make Green Promises In Return For Bailout

Banks Launch The Climate Principles
Banks Launch The Climate Principles

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Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

Sustainability And Color: Moving Beyond Green

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

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Sustainability Execs Say Green Spending Increasing, Despite Economy

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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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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

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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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