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Be Like Nike
Big biz ranked on greenness |
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07 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:47 PM on 07 May 2008 Takeaways from a new ranking of eco-friendly practices in big biz: Consumer companies are getting greener, but there's plenty of ground to gain. In its second annual scorecard, nonprofit Climate Counts ranked 56 companies on their measurement, reduction, and disclosure of greenhouse gases. Eighty-four percent of the companies scored higher this year than they did in 2007, but the average score was still only 40 out of a p ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, shopping (all these topics) |
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Shop, Collaborate, and Listen
Online shopping better for the earth than going to the mall, says study |
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21 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:04 PM on 21 Dec 2007 Online shopping is better for the planet than multiple trips to the mall, says a somewhat ill-timed study. (Start your online shopping today, spend $3,000,000 for shipping.) "Using several assumptions and data from several authoritative sources, we can reasonably estimate that nearly [500,000 metric tons] of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere by ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, shopping (all these topics) |
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