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Circuit Training
U.N. launches global partnership to combat unhealthy e-waste habits |
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08 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Circuit Training U.N. launches global partnership to combat unhealthy e-waste habits Faced with an annual global gadget toss approaching 40 million tons, the United Nations has launched a partnership to battle the world's heaps of e-waste and the environmental and health problems caused by impromptu e-recycling. Solving the E-Waste Problem, or StEP -- which counts governments, unive ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, news, toxics, United Nations, waste (all these topics) |
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Teller All Your Crazy Dreams
Bank of America announces $20 billion green initiative |
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07 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Teller All Your Crazy Dreams Bank of America announces $20 billion green initiative In perhaps the largest initiative of its kind evah, Bank of America has announced a $20 billion investment in being all green and stuff over the next decade. The largest U.S. retail bank will use most of the moola to finance green-focused commercial clients, while also offering lower mortgage rates on energy-efficient homes, starting ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, news (all these topics) |
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BOA constructor
Bank of America makes a $20 billion green pledge |
Katharine Wroth |
06 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Not long ago, I became a Bank of America customer, with mixed emotions. You know, the faceless corporation, the rumors of unethical practices, the exhaustion of trying to figure out where their (and my) money truly goes. Ultimately, I gave in to inertia and convenience. So I'm happy to hear that BOA is launching a 10-year, $20 billion green initiative to support sustainable business and fight climate change. If it's greenwashing, at least it's $20 billion worth of gr ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations (all these topics) |
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Group Hug
Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency |
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28 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Group Hug Leading tech competitors bury the hatchet to improve energy efficiency Hold onto your geek hat: 11 leading tech companies have partnered to reduce the energy used by servers and data centers. The Green Grid -- made up of foes including Intel, IBM, Microsoft, AMD, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard -- thinks data-center efficiency "is the most significant issue fa ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, greening biz operations, news, tech (all these topics) |
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Swedening the Pot
An interview with IKEA sustainability director Thomas Bergmark |
David Roberts |
27 Feb 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Green by design. Photo: IKEA Last week, IKEA U.S. announced a "bag the plastic bag" initiative: the retailer will charge a nickel for plastic bags to discourage their use, donating all revenue to the nonprofit conservation group American Forests. The store will also let shoppers walk away with one of its iconic reusable blue bags for 59 cents. Pleasant enough news, but it struc ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, interview, Sweden (all these topics) |
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Brit's Eye View: British supermarkets are going green
But why? |
Peter Madden |
25 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. British supermarkets are now competing to go green. Two big retailers have just launched initiatives to tackle climate change. Marks & Spencer, which sells food and clothing to Britain's middle classes, promised this month to cut waste, sell fair-trade products, and make the company carbon neutral within five years. Environme ... |
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| Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, United Kingdom, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Strike It Richard
Richard Branson chats about embracing ethanol and slashing airplane emissions |
Amanda Griscom Little |
07 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Does a music mogul who signed the Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson have what it takes to make a pop star out of biofuels? Sir Richard. Earlier this fall, publicity-chasing British entrepreneur Richard Branson made a $3 billion bet that he could do just that -- and help solve the climate crisis to boot -- via Virgin Fuels, a new company in his wide-ranging Virgin Gr ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, business, climate, energy, ethanol, greening biz operations, Richard Branson (all these topics) |
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McKibben on 'green' Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart may sell organic, but it also thrives on ruined downtowns and long freight hauls. |
Tom Philpott |
21 Nov 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I've always been a bit appalled by the polite applause with which some enviros greet Wal-Mart's 'green' initiatives. Seems to me that the only way the company could really 'go green' would be to stop selling cheap plastic crap shipped in from halfway around the world in vast suburban megastores. In other words, completely change it's business model -- not, say, adopt 'green' building techniques for its appalling superstores, or haul mass-produced 'organic' food from Cal ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Did You Mean: Solar Power?
Google to install more than 9,000 photovoltaic panels at its HQ |
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17 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Did You Mean: Solar Power? Google to install more than 9,000 photovoltaic panels at its HQ Google Inc. is converting six buildings at its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay area to run on up to 30 percent solar power. The project, one of the largest solar endeavors undertaken by a U.S. company, will require installation of 9,212 solar panels, and sh ... |
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| Topics: business, California, energy, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Starbucks: only green on their logo?
Coffee giant may be involved in deforestation in Indonesia |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
08 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| For being a big-ass chain, Starbucks Coffee at least has a reputation as a socially responsible big-ass chain. They've partnered with Conservation International for their Conservation Coffee program, 'to encourage environmentally sound coffee-growing practices and to improve farmer livelihoods' in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, 'and other Conservation Coffee sites around the world' that apparently don't warrant mentioning. They recycle 'at 1,544 of our stores, of whic ... |
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| Topics: business, deforestation, greening biz operations (all these topics) |
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Wal-Mart's green makeover
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David Roberts |
08 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I have an op-ed on TomPaine.com today about Wal-Mart's recent green initiatives. Give it a read. I'm sure the accusations of corporate whoredom will come rolling in at any moment. I worry that, even given the copious pixels expended, my overall point was not entirely clear. So below the fold, I shall try to express it in more compact form. The basic dilemma Wal-Mart's greening poses is this: they're doing good environmental things -- real things, substantive thin ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Wal-Mart's devious profit motive
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David Roberts |
07 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I'm in the midst of writing an op-ed about Wal-Mart's green transformation. One theme that comes up frequently in the commentary is this: Wal-Mart is "only" doing these things because they'll improve the bottom line. Um ... yeah. It's a business. It's supposed to make money. As a publicly held corporation, it's required by law to make money. If it went around doing things that deliberately reduced its profits, it would be subject to a shareholder lawsui ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Learning to love Wal-Mart
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David Roberts |
27 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| We've done some good stuff on Wal-Mart's greening, but Marc Gunther's cover story in Fortune this week pulls it all together better than any single story I've seen, and advances it in some interesting ways. Particularly in reference to our ongoing debate over morality, listen to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott: To me, there can't be anything good about putting all these chemicals in the air. There can't be anything good about the smog you see in cities. There can't be a ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Al goes to Wal-Mart
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David Roberts |
07 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Several blogs have noted this item about Al Gore addressing the upcoming quarterly meeting on sustainability at Wal-Mart. Apparently Rich Cizik, Adam Werbach, and some other eco-luminaries will be there as well, and some fairly significant stuff is going to be announced. Our very own Amanda Griscom Little will be reporting from the scene. In the meantime, read her interview with Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, and to wash that corporate taste right out of your pristine ... |
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| Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Don't Discount Him
An interview with Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott |
Amanda Griscom Little |
12 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Last week, Wal-Mart joined leading energy executives in their startling call for mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. The heart of this monolithic retail Grinch grew three sizes that day -- or so it seemed to many environmental Who's. Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott. For many enviros, the name "Wal-Mart" has always triggered a shudder. The world's biggest retailer has been charged with exa ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, interview, renewable energy, Wal-Mart, waste (all these topics) |
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Beery, beery good
High energy costs don't get in this brewery's way |
Katharine Wroth |
11 May 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Hey, I don't want to get a reputation. But here's more news from the beer-and-rising-energy-costs front: The New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colo., is hopping on alternative energy instead. To wit: The company uses methane captured from its wastewater to help power its facilities, and uses a biodiesel blend in its delivery trucks. No big surprise from an outfit whose employees voted, waaaay back in 1998, to make it the nation's first wind-powered brewer ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, food, greening biz operations, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Dela-Wherewithall
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21 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Dela-Wherewithall The state of Delaware, which already distinguished itself this year by approving criminal sanctions for executives at polluting companies, has now announced a voluntary program designed to give manufacturers incentives to surpass state environmental and conservation standards. The Principles for Responsible Industry program, which was announced yesterday by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D), sets ... |
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| Topics: business, Delaware, greening biz operations, news (all these topics) |
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In Good Company
Cutting emissions to raise profits |
Amanda Griscom |
31 Jul 2002 |
Powers That Be |
| As the epidemic of accounting scandals continues to spread and the term Corporate Responsibility rings with the oppressive severity of an 11th Commandment, it's nice to catch a little glimpse of the brighter side: A growing number of U.S. companies have been making voluntary pledges to reform their internal operations in order to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming. And surprisingly -- or mayb ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics) |
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