Santander Brasil, Wipro, Bradesco, IBM Lead Global Green Rankings
Santander Brasil, Indian IT firm Wipro, Brazilian financial company Bradesco and US-based IBM topped this year’s Newsweek Green Rankings for global companies, while Singapore food company Wilmar, Coal...
View ArticleIs Integrated Reporting the ‘Next Step’?
FSinsight editor Jeroen Derwall, Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Center for Sustainability and at Maastricht University, talks about the upward trend that more companies are reporting on their...
View ArticleClorox Integrated Sustainability Report: Normalized CO2 Emissions Drop 4.2%
Clorox reduced its normalized greenhouse gas emissions by 4.2 percent in 2011, according to the company’s latest combined annual and sustainability report and supporting documentation. In 2010, Clorox...
View ArticleTremco’s New AlphaGuard Fluid Applied Roofing Systems Reduce Energy Usage
Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance has announced its new AlphaGuard series of fluid applied roofing systems. The first, AlphaGuard MT, is a roofing and waterproofing system for use on almost any...
View ArticleJoules of Available Energy: The Currency that Matters
India experienced its worst ever power outage last July when a series of grid failures, over two consecutive days, eventually plunged an estimated 600 million people – half of the country’s population...
View ArticleCalifornia Cities Dominate Clean Tech Metro Index
Six of the top seven metro regions leading on a combined index evaluating green buildings, advanced transportation, clean electricity and other sustainability factors are on the west coast. In Clean...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: B Corp, Earth Advantage, Verified Carbon...
Ben & Jerry’s has met the B Lab standards for socially responsible businesses to become a Certified B Corp member. The ice cream maker is the first wholly-owned subsidiary to gain B Corp...
View ArticleERTOC Unveils Consignment-Level CO2 Tracking Software
Transportation research consortium Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments has developed a prototype software platform that can optimize shipment costs and carbon dioxide emissions down...
View ArticleGoogle Drops Out of EPA Green Power Tech Rankings
Google, which ranked sixth in the EPA’s inaugural rankings of the high-tech industry’s biggest green power users, has dropped out of the Top 20. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Sprint and Dell...
View ArticleIkea Targets Energy and Resource Independence by 2020
Ikea today announced a plan to become energy and resource independent by 2020, which includes constructing €1.5 billion ($2.4 billion) of wind and solar projects. The retailer’s new sustainability...
View ArticleSpeed Limits on Cargo Ships Could Cut Emissions ‘Up to 70%’
Putting a speed limit on cargo ships as they sail near ports and coastlines could cut their GHG emissions by up to 70 percent, according to scientists writing in the journal Environmental Science &...
View ArticleToyota Sues to Stop Mexico’s Proposed Fuel-Economy Program
Toyota, the Mexican Auto Industry Association (AMIA) and four other individual car companies have filed lawsuits to block Mexico’s proposed fuel-economy mandates, Toyota tells Environmental Leader. In...
View ArticleM&S Commits to End Use of PFCs by 2016
Marks & Spencer has adopted stricter rules on the use of chemicals in its supply chain, including a commitment to end the use of all PFCs by July 2016. The company worked with Greenpeace to develop...
View ArticleGM Shares Zero-Waste Best Practices
General Motors is sharing details about how it has turned more than half of its manufacturing plants into landfill-free facilities and which best practices helped the automaker turned its own waste...
View ArticleWalmart Launches The Sustainability Consortium in China, Sets Supplier Targets
Walmart today announced a series of sustainable supply chain initiatives including a $2 million Walmart Foundation grant to launch The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) in China, and a target for...
View ArticleSimplot, Bigelow Cut Energy Use
J.R. Simplot Company’s various energy-efficiency improvements have saved the company 390,821,028 kWh of electricity and prevented 95,056 tons of GHG emissions since 2009. The food, fertilizer and...
View ArticleTurning Algae into Fuel
Converting algae to biofuel could be a sustainable solution to the need for liquid fuel in the United States, according to U-M researchers. Scientists in the chemical engineering department are working...
View ArticlePolicy & Enforcement Briefing: BP Biofuel Plant, Gulf of Mexico Leases, EU...
The Interior Department and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has published details on its oil and gas lease sale of more than 20 million acres offshore and all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of...
View ArticleLevi’s, Case-Mate Join Coke’s Ekocycle Brand
Levi’s, MCM, RVCA and Case-Mate have joined Ekocycle, an initiative to brand recycled products and encourage sustainability among young consumers, according to Coca-Cola and musical artist will.i.am,...
View ArticleMattel Sustainability Report: Targets 50% Carbon Cut by 2020
Mattel is aiming to cut its normalized carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2015 and 50 percent by 2020, from a 2008 baseline, as part of the company’s first set of measurable sustainability goals. The...
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