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AVOB Aims to Crack US Market with Free PC Power Management
The French firm hopes to use its experience with France's largest enterprises and a zero-upfront-cost billing model to crack an already crowded U.S. market wide open. Read More
Ben & Jerry's Backs Off 'All Natural' Claims
In the wake of a complaint filed by an advocacy group, Ben & Jerry's will remove the phrase "all natural" on its products that contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and other questionably natural ingredients. Read More
5 Ways to Grow Revenue with Green Innovation
Bottom-line initiatives are critical to staying viable and competitive while benefiting society and the environment. They’ll grow profits, for a while anyway. But they aren't a path to continued growth or advantage. To consistently grow the bottom-line, sustainability innovation needs to drive the top-line. Read More
Quote for Sept. 24, 2010: Charlie Chaplin, 1916
"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -- Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. Read More
Quote for Sept. 23, 2010: Robert Millikan, Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1923
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and Nobel laureate, 1923. Read More
Quote for Sept. 22, 2010: Lord Kelvin, 1895
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895. Read More
Guidelines for Post Consumer Recycled Content in Plastic Packaging
This report addresses common issues and strategies for increasing recycled content in common beverage, dairy, electronic, household care and laundry, pharmaceutical, personal care product and snack plastic packaging. Read More
Coconut Husks Find New Life as Packaging
Two companies have teamed up to turn some of the 50 million coconuts that fall every year into reusable packaging. Read More
Why CSR is Essential in the Real World of Business
In a recent op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, one of my colleagues explained why he thinks corporate social responsibility is at best irrelevant and probably socially damaging. Yet when corporations blatantly work to cause government to fail in its task of solving collective problems, how can we not demand CSR? How can we not support environmental activists who work to hold such corporations accountable? Read More
Quote for Sept. 20, 2010: T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961
"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." -- T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961 Read More