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Ten Lessons for Corporations Working with Activists
Author: Peter Asmus Rainforest Action Network's recent engagement with Mitsubishi offers some useful tips to help companies make cooperation with activist organizations work for everyone's benefit. Read More
Ontario Government to Ban Incandescent Lights by 2012
Citing the need to save significant amounts of energy by switching to more efficient lights, the Canadian province will phase out use of older light bulbs over the next five years. Read More
Eurostar to Drop Emissions 25 Percent, Go Carbon Neutral
In a move to further emphasize the eco-friendliness of train travel -- and also to outdo recent airline plans to offset carbon emissions -- the train service won't charge customers for the additional costs of offsetting. Read More
Fast Food Restaurants Go Green from the Outside In
Author: Lori Hall Steele A new McDonald's restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, shows that the green-building model can work for the tens of thousands of of fast-food restaurants nationwide. Read More
Ask the Green Architect: Mercury in Lightbulbs
Green architect Eric Corey Freed answers your questions on sustainable building performance, materials, and design. Read More
Accor Highlights Its Sustainable Development Commitments
In time for Earth Day later this month, the global hotel company is showcasing its commitment to sustainability. Read More
Facilitating Sustainability Strategy
Sustainability assessments and strategic planning can help corporations large and small develop socially and environmentally responsible business practices, improve reputations and increase brand equity. Read More
Wal-Mart Expands Employee Sustainability Projects
Personal sustainability practices will help Wal-Mart associates improve their own well-being and the health of the environment. Read More
The Convergence of Science, Technology, and Nature
Brad Allenby writes that business interests have long worked to speed the creation, adoption and dispersal of new technologies into the economy; with the increasing global concern over climate change, they're also encompassing landscapes, biological operations and whole ecological systems, but to what end? Read More
Best Buy Launches Consumer Electronics Recycling Grants
The electronics retail superstore will offer grants to municipal and nonprofit organizations to help them develop new ways for consumers to recycle electronics. Read More