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Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council

Wal-Mart Creates Green Jobs Council
Wal-Mart created a green jobs council and has partnered with many of its sustainability suppliers to facilitate the ...

AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’

AIG Offers Green Building Coverage Against ‘Adverse Publicity’
AIG Risk Management launched AIGRMGreen Product Line to address green building risks. The company says the casualty coverage for property owners ...

Green Earth Technologies Makes Motor Oil From Animal Fat

Green Earth Technologies Makes Motor Oil From Animal Fat
Green Earth Technologies says it has found a way to make motor oil from animal fat. The company's engine ...

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

Clif Family Winery Adds $0.25 Per Bottle To Offset CO2 Emissions
Clif Family Winery partnered with NativeEnergy to launch Green My Shipment, which adds $0.25 per bottle to help ...

Certified Fibers Can Protect Against Greenwashing Claims

Certified Fibers Can Protect Against Greenwashing Claims
Packaging managers who want to avoid the negative image associated with using virgin fibers in packaging may want to ...

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Green Protective Packaging To Grow 4.6% Annually

Green Protective Packaging To Grow 4.6% Annually
A recent study from Freedonia (subscription required) shows that demand for eco-friendly protective packaging in the U.S. will ...

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 ...

Green Globe Expands Green Travel Services With New Partnerships

Green Globe Expands Green Travel Services With New Partnerships
Green Globe International Inc. announced new agreements with Green Hotel Certification, Sustainable Travel International and the World Youth ...

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 ...

Office Depot Releases New Green Book

Office Depot Releases New Green Book
Office Depot launched its fifth annual Green Book catalog of the company's environmentally preferable office products. The company ...

Plow & Hearth Plants 200,000 Trees - On Way To 1 Million

Plow & Hearth Plants 200,000 Trees - On Way To 1 Million
Plow & Hearth says its Campaign to Re-Forest America has designated 200,000 trees for distribution to three U.S. national ...

Plastic Waste Turned Into Armored Panels, Fleece Jackets

Plastic Waste Turned Into Armored Panels, Fleece Jackets
Protomax Plastics, a Welsh engineering company, says it has developed machinery that can turn mixed plastic trash into ...

Future Consumer Involvement in Environmental Protection

Future Consumer Involvement in Environmental Protection
Over 50% of the U.S. general population expects to be more involved in protecting the environment in the future, slightly higher from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2
Owens Corning announced that it has increased the the certified recycled content in its PINK Fiberglas insulation to ...

Minnesota Paper Recycler To Power With Biogas

Minnesota Paper Recycler To Power With Biogas
St. Paul Port Authority has gained unanimous support from the City Council to develop a once-controversial biogas plan, Star ...

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%
Xerox Corp.'s announced it will be installing six 25,000 gallon tanks at its EA toner plant in Webster, ...

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores
Wal-Mart has signed a four-year agreement with Duke Energy to supply up to 15 percent of the retailer's ...

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup
The Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is currently underway. More than 26,000 people packed the Boston Convention ...

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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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The Bottom Line

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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