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3M, GE, Sylvania Among Firms Honored with Top Energy Star Awards
One-hundred-eleven companies received Energy Star honors from the U.S. EPA in the annual awards program that recognizes the most the energy efficient businesses in a national program that now has more than 20,000 members. Read More
The 2011 SustainAbility Survey
GlobeScan Incorporated and SustainAbility Ltd. surveyed 559 sustainability experts from a range of disciplines for their research focusing on perceptions of sustainability leadership. Read More
Unilever Tops List of Sustainability Leaders
Just months after unveiling its Sustainability Living Plan, Unilever has rocketed to the top of a list of global corporate leaders, according to the latest survey of sustainability experts conducted by the research firm GlobeScan Inc. and the think tank and strategy consultancy SustainAbility. Read More
New Delhi Airport Terminal Achieves LEED-Gold Rating
The vast Terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi International Airport has been awarded a LEED-Gold rating for new construction from the Indian Green Building Council. Read More
GlaxoSmithKline Outlines Vision for Carbon Neutral 2050
A carbon footprint analysis of its value chain revealed that 40 percent of its overall emissions can be found in its supply chain, while another 40 percent are produced by customer use of its inhalers. Read More
The Impacts of Telework Week 2011
40,000 participants in this year's event showed how employees can save billions in commute costs while boosting productivity by working at home two days per week. Read More
Who's Peddling Pulp Fiction in the SFI vs. FSC Forestry Wars?
With this week's news of seven major companies dropping their support for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a war of words has heated up between SFI and the Forest Stewardship Council, the other wood products certification on the market. Read More
Walmart Zero Waste Program a Boon for Texas Recycler
Walmart needed to find a home for its food waste that didn't involve a landfill. No such infrastructure existed so Walmart built one, with the help of Quest Recycling Services from Frisco, Texas. Read More
Mapping Out the Complexities of Corporate Sustainabilty
As the world of corporate social responsibility -- both environmental as well as social -- becomes ever more complicated, the need for an at-a-glance reference has become imperative. Here's a starting point for a CSR mind map. Read More
Why Energy Reduction Goals Are Moving Up the Corporate Agenda
Establishing an energy reduction goal offers benefits that carbon reduction goals do not in today's business climate, such as the direct relationship to dollar savings, which may be easier to sell internally. Read More