Wal-Mart's Packaging Scorecard Takes Effect
Wal-Mart has officially begun using its packaging scorecard to rate suppliers on their progress toward developing sustainable packaging. Wal-Mart buyers will use the scorecard as a decision-making tool, assessing each suppliers' ability to help the company meet its goal to achieve a 5% packaging reduction by 2013. Read more...
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Major Banks Agree to Green Guidelines on Financing Power Projects
Amid shifting government policies on climate change, financial powerhouses Citibank, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley have agreed to follow new guidelines on evaluating and addressing the carbon risks in financing power projects. Called the Carbon Principles, the guidelines were created in collaboration with leading power companies and environmental nonprofits. Read more...
Airbus Flight-Tests Renewable Plane Fuel
Airbus has become the first airplane manufacturer to flight-test a synthetic liquid fuel processed from natural gas. Airbus tested the alternative fuel in its most fuel-efficient airliner, the A380, in a three-hour flight from Britain to France over the weekend. Read more...
Survey: One in Five U.K. Companies Has Hired a "Green Guru"
Twenty percent of U.K. companies have in place a dedicated head of sustainability or "green guru," according to a new survey from Genesys Conferencing. An additional 20% say that functional heads such as the chief technical officer (CTO), chief operating officer (COO), or their equivalents have responsibility for spearheading environmental change throughout the organization. Read more...
Gartner Predicts Mandatory Green Audits for IT Suppliers Within Three Years
IT vendors will soon find themselves subject to green audits by the global companies they supply, according to Gartner's annual list of events and developments expected to affect the IT industry. The predictions highlight areas where executives and IT professionals need to take action in 2008. Read more...
Nokia Pledges More Energy-Efficient Chargers, Greener Operations
Nokia has joined the WWF Climate Savers program, committing to improving the energy efficiency of its business operations and its products. The company is targeting a series of climate-conscious initiatives, including halving the stand-by energy used by its mobile phone chargers and using green electricity to power 50% of its facilities. Read more...
HP Makes New Printer Cartridges from Plastic Water Bottles
Hewlett-Packard has engineered a way to produce inkjet printer cartridges from post-consumer recycled plastics. More than 200 million Original HP cartridges have been manufactured using the process so far. Read more...
U.K. Food and Drink Makers Make Water-Saving Pledge
Twenty-one of the U.K.'s leading food and drink makers, including Cadbury Schweppes, Nestle, and Unilever, have pledged to use less water in their manufacturing operations. Under the new Federation House Commitment, jointly developed by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and the nonprofit Envirowise, the companies have pledged to review their current water use and create site-specific water efficiency plans within the next six months. Read more...
Wal-Mart Fires Up First Sam's Club Solar Array
Wal-Mart has completed a 390-kilowatt solar power system at its Sam's Club store in Chino -- the first of seven California locations to receive solar array under an agreement with solar provider SunPower. Wal Mart has purchased a total of 4.6 megawatts of solar power from SunPower and other solar providers for 22 Wal-Mart stores, Sam's Clubs, and distribution centers in Hawaii and California. Read more...
Intel Announces Green Power Buying Spree
Intel is set to overtake PepsiCo as the largest purchaser of green power in the U.S. The tech giant will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year in renewable energy certificates (RECs), a record-setting purchase that the company hopes will help stimulate the market for green power. Read more...
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Wanted: An "Airmiles" Program for the Green Consumer
What if you could cash in all those airmiles for something other than, well, more air-polluting flights? Canada’s Green Rewards program, set to launch this summer, takes as its premise the idea that consumer incentive programs can offer rewards that are both “fun” and also “good” (think of applying those points to an electric scooter instead of that free trip to Bermuda). We asked Green Rewards mastermind Andrew Souvaliotis about this pioneering program, and why he’s launching in Canada before dipping his toe in the much larger U.S. market. Read more...
Why the Greenest Businesses Are Learning to Play Nice Together
Is corporate competition making way for an era of collaboration as businesses face up to the climate change challenge? (BusinessGreen) Read more...
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