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April 8, 2008 
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Fiji Water's Thomas Mooney Talks "Carbon Negative"
Last November, Fiji Water made the bold commitment to take its bottled water “carbon negative,” earning public raves – and raspberries – depending on who’s doing the talking. In this SLM interview, Thomas Mooney, Fiji Water’s senior vice president for sustainable growth, explains how the company is planning to make good on its high-profile promise – and answers the criticism that “bottled water” and “sustainable” don’t belong in the same sentence. Read more...
This Week's Top Stories... Marriott Outlines Five-Point Plan to Green Global Operations 
Marriott International has outlined a sweeping five-point plan to reduce the environmental impact of its global operations, headlined by a new $2 million carbon-offset deal to preserve endangered rainforests in Brazil. The hotel chain says it aims to reduce its climate footprint, optimize resource efficiency, green the global supply chain, build greener hotels, and engage employees to take environmental action. Read more...
HP Releases New CSR Report, Names Top Suppliers 
Hewlett-Packard has published its 2007 corporate responsibility report, announcing that the company has already reached its goal to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 2005 levels by 2010. HP also says extensive supplier audits reveal "strong progress" toward achieving environmental goals; in a bid toward greater transparency, the tech giant has published a list of its largest suppliers - an industry first. Read more...
McAfee Audits Climate Emissions from Annual Sales Meeting 
The results weren't all that shocking - about 90% of the event's climate emissions came from air travel - but McAfee's environmental audit of its annual sales meeting, which drew 1,800 employees to Las Vegas earlier this year, did pay dividends. The company reduced non-air travel carbon emissions by 16%, offsetting the remaining emissions through investment in reforestation projects. Read more...
Dell Powers Global HQ with 100% Renewable Energy 
Dell is now powering its 2.1 million square-foot global headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, entirely with renewable energy. Forty percent of the campus's power needs will come from a landfill gas-to-energy plant, with the remaining 60% provided by central Texas wind farms. Read more...
Bank of America Adopts Carbon Principles 
Bank of America has joined Citibank, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley in adopting the Carbon Principles, a set of guidelines that help advisors and lenders to power companies evaluate and address carbon risks in the financing of energy projects. Read more...
ConocoPhillips Offers $300,000 for New Clean-Energy Ideas 
Oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips has launched a $300,000 annual prize for "original, actionable solutions" to the U.S. energy crunch and global climate change. The ConocoPhillips Energy Prize, awarded in partnership with Penn State's Energy Institute, will recognize innovative ideas for developing new energy sources, improving energy efficiency, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Read more...
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Cutting Logistics and Distribution Costs and Risks 
Streamlining logistics is a good way to reduce cost, but it also cuts risk by reducing reliance on fuel (with its volatile and rising prices). And if the more extreme peak oil theorists are right, costs could be heading way up over the next decade (think $200/barrel, a number that seemed outright absurd a few years ago). So it's a good idea to start reducing distribution costs now. Here's how some smart companies are leading the way - by packing trucks more efficiently, redesigning delivery routes, reducing truck idling and, yes, switching to new vehicles entirely. By Andrew Winston Read more...
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