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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 ...

UN Climate Change Conference Day 3 Press Briefing

UN Climate Change Conference Day 3 Press Briefing
The market-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol were highlighted by Yvo de Boer at today's press briefing. Delegates are considering ways to ...

United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Briefing

United Nations Climate Change Conference Press Briefing
Briefing the media on the opening day of the UNFCC climate conference in Poznan, Poland, Yvo de Boer emphasized the crucial ...

BMW, Vattenfall Begin Real-World Electric Car Test Next Month

BMW, Vattenfall Begin Real-World Electric Car Test Next Month
Beginning in January, 50 two-seater, all-electric Mini E cars will be whizzing around the streets of Berlin, as premium brand car maker ...

Wal-Mart, FedEx, Lenovo Discuss Supply Chain Sustainability

Wal-Mart, FedEx, Lenovo Discuss Supply Chain Sustainability
Executives from Waste Management, FedEx and Lenovo discuss sustainability and the supply chain at Wal-Mart's Sustainability Summit in Beijing, China. ...

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‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled
Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
Rick Ridgeway, VP of environmental programs and communication at Patagonia, talks about the company’s sustainability initiatives – including its Footprint Chronicles ...

California Clean Tech Open Awards

California Clean Tech Open Awards
Video from the California Clean Tech Open, which announced six category winners dor its 2008 competition earlier this month. The award winners ...

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth
A BT-sponsored e-forum on sustainability from Gartner's 2008 ITexpo in Cannes, France. Panelists including Luis Alvarez, President EMEA & Latin America, BTGS, ...

OpenEco.org 2.0 Launched By Sun

OpenEco.org 2.0 Launched By Sun
Sun Microsystems has updated OpenEco.org, an online community that provides tools to help companies calculate, compare and reduce their greenhouse gas ...

Japan’s Solar City As Model For The Future

Japan’s Solar City As Model For The Future
A Japanese solar-powered city offers a model for future self-sufficient energy communities, producing electricity with rooftop panels, according to this Reuters' video....

E-Waste Recycler Refutes Damaging ‘Electronic Wasteland’ Report

E-Waste Recycler Refutes Damaging ‘Electronic Wasteland’ Report
Colorado e-waste recycler Executive Recycling markets itself as recycling e-waste in the U.S. in an environmentally correct way, but according ...

Green On Display At International Housewares Show

Green On Display At International Housewares Show
Reduced product packaging, energy conservation, and recycling were on center stage at the 2008 International Housewares Show....

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts
Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, speaks at the BSR Conference in 2008....

Green Marketing Meets Clothes Hanger

Green Marketing Meets Clothes Hanger
Green marketing is changing clothes closets into a new advertising venue. The New York-based Hanger Network has crossed the concept of an ...

Media, Entertainment Companies Worst At Communicating Sustainability Efforts

Media, Entertainment Companies Worst At Communicating Sustainability Efforts
We recently reported on a study from IMC2 on how effectively S&P 100 companies are communicating their sustainability efforts. In this ...

How The Green Movement Is Changing Business, Culture

How The Green Movement Is Changing Business, Culture
At Sustainable Brands 08, Judah Schiller, executive vice-president of Saatchi and Saatchi S, Ted Nordhaus, chairman of The Breakthrough Institute, and Fast ...

LEED CI ‘Highly Achievable’ For Most Tenants

LEED CI ‘Highly Achievable’ For Most Tenants
Video from ZDNet covering the idea of green leases and LEED for Commercial Interiors which cover tenant premises rather than buildings....

Intel’s Right-Hand Turn To Energy Efficiency

Intel’s Right-Hand Turn To Energy Efficiency
Intel's John Skinner talks about Intel's "right hand turn" from full-speed ahead, to energy-smart performance in computer chip design, especially with new ...

Fiat Says Driver Feedback Tool Cuts CO2 Emissions By Up To 15%

Fiat Says Driver Feedback Tool Cuts CO2 Emissions By Up To 15%
Fiat has developed eco:Drive, a computer application that connects a car to a PC to evaluate driving styles and find ways to ...

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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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