Oracle Software Simplifies Environmental Reporting
Oracle has simplified environmental reporting by pre-integrating greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting software from Ndevr with Oracle’s E-Business Suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne financial...
View ArticleSpud Giant Closes Loop on Sustainability
J.R. Simplot, the nation’s largest potato grower and provider of McDonald’s french fries, has created an internal value-chain loop out of its sustainability practices. Simplot, which has about $4.5...
View ArticleIntel Achieves First LEED Gold for Design Center
Intel Corp. has earned its first LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its new design center set to open in Haifa, Israel in June. Achieving a Gold-level rating, the Intel Design...
View ArticleThe New Biofuels? Mud and Beef
Two new biofuels are coming from unlikely sources – mud and beef. The Navy is testing a microbial fuel cell that works by converting decomposing marine organisms buried in mud into electricity,...
View ArticleBacardi, Datapipe Adopt Renewable Energy
A rum producer and a hosted IT provider are taking different routes to adopting renewable energy – one quite visible, the other … not so much. Through a power purchase agreement, Bacardi has added two...
View ArticleSunny Delight, Diageo Plants Reduce Waste Sent to Landfill Status
Bottling plants for Sunny Delight and Diageo have both accomplished goals relating to reducing waste sent to landfills. For Sunny Delight, all six of its manufacturing sites have reached their goal of...
View ArticleRoundup: Transportation, Greanpeace
EPA Seeks Comments on Aircraft Lead Emissions Data Environmental Protection Softchoice Shares Tools and Best Practices in Annual CSR Report Market Watch Does Transportation Need A Sustainability...
View ArticleYellow Pages Directory Uses Wood Chips to Make Paper Stock
The Yellow Pages Association (YPA) uses recycled paper pulp and fiber derived from residual chips — a byproduct after logs are converted into lumber — to make its directory paper, according to the...
View ArticleIKEA, Cleco Add Solar Panels
As more businesses focus on increasing energy efficiency, reducing electricity costs and cutting carbon emissions, they are adding solar energy systems to their electricity mix. As an example, IKEA...
View ArticleU.S. Trails Only U.K. on Climate Accountability, Performance
In a study combining data sets on both climate accountability and climate performance, the United States trails only the United Kingdom. The annual Climate Competitiveness Index judges major nations on...
View ArticleCompliance, Not Marketing, Motivates Manufacturers to Adopt Sustainability
Manufacturers increasingly are viewing sustainability through the lense of compliance, instead of marketing, suggesting a shift in perception from opportunity to cost, according to “Sustainability...
View ArticleBill Clinton Discusses Advances in Global Corporate Citizenship
Former President Bill Clinton discusses corporate citizenship at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of Berkeley-California. The Clinton Global Initiative has received more than...
View ArticleLeading CEOs Share Best Sustainability Practices
CEOs from Wal-Mart, Fedex, PepsiCo, Whirlpool and Verizon are among the 97 executives from leading U.S. companies that share some of their best sustainability initiatives in the Business Roundtables’...
View ArticleProLogis Offsets 100 percent of Carbon Footprint
ProLogis offsets 100 percent of its global operational carbon footprint to help mitigate the company’s impact on climate change, according to the company’s fourth annual Corporate Responsibility Report...
View ArticleInfoWorld Selects 15 Green IT Winners
InfoWorld has selected this year’s winners of its Green 15 Awards that show how companies of all sizes are using information technology as part of their daily operations to meet both their...
View ArticleSenate Climate Bill Gets Sidelined over Immigration
The Senate climate bill, which was to be unveiled today (April 26), has been sidelined by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s decision to walk away from Senate talks on climate legislation over the...
View ArticleRoundup: Bill Gates, Mars, ING
Israel’s Al Gore-Funded GreenRoad Seeks to Cut Emissions, Bills Business Week Mars test “sustainable” chocolate in Boulder The Boulder Reporter Carlisle Area School District Breaks Ground on 1.2 MW...
View ArticleHouston Launches $23 Million Project to Retrofit City Buildings
The city of Houston has signed a contract worth $23 million to retrofit 19 city buildings to increase their energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions, reports Triple Pundit. Contractor Schneider...
View ArticleCalifornia May Delay Diesel Rules
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) may delay its diesel pollution rules as a way to help construction and trucking industries that have been hurt by the recession, reports The Press-Enterprise....
View ArticleCR Directors Average $151K in Salary
Corporate responsibility directors in North America average about $151,000 a year in salary, slightly less than what is paid to those in the same position in mainland Europe, according to the 2010...
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