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Marks and Spencer's Consumer Education & Empowerment Strategy - Mike Barry



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Listen to Marks and Spencer's Head of Sustainable Business, Mike Barry, who shares some of the exemplary work they’ve done to communicate their efforts to their customers and engage them in the success of Plan A, as well as discuss how these efforts are helping create deeper brand affinity.
Mike Barry

Environmental Management with IBM's Smarter Planet - Lee Green

IBM is helping make systemic environmental management more effective for clients through large data capturing, analysis, and recommendations, making for us a Smarter Planet. Listen to Lee Green as he describes the story behind the program and how IBM envisions better business through operational awareness. READ MORE

RecycleBank: Motivating Consumer Recycling through Loyalty Programs



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Improving the recycling rates of materials through consumer incentives is RecycleBank's specialty. Listen to Co-Founder Ron Gonen discuss the company's business mission to advance closed looping through convenience, technology, waste management, retailer partnerships.
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IBM’s World Community Grid Turns Focus to Water

September 8, 2010 – World Community Grid, a network of PC owners who donate their unused computing power to solve humanitarian and sustainability challenges, is teaming up with three projects aimed at producing cleaner water – a serious issue for over 1 billion people and increasingly a concern for forward looking-businesses. READ MORE

eBay Pilot-Testing Reusable Shipping Boxes

September 3, 2010 – This spring’s winner at eBay’s Innovation Expo was an idea called “simple green shipping” – a durable cardboard box designed to be used  repeatedly by eBay buyers and sellers. At today’s eBay: On Location event that idea came to life, with 100,000 boxes printed and a pilot program announced in earnest. READ MORE

Microsoft Tool Quantifies Windows 7 Global Energy Savings

August 30, 2010 – Microsoft has revealed a major project with Reading University this week which is designed to calculate the energy savings large companies can realize by switching to their latest Windows 7 operating system from older versions of windows as well as competitor platforms. READ MORE

Benziger Tops Sustainable Wine Rankings

August 25, 2010 – Greenopia has released their comprehensive sustainability ratings on 25 major wine labels, with Benziger Family Winery of Sonoma, CA taking the top spot in the ratings, followed by French Rabbit and Alma Rosa taking second and third place respectively. READ MORE

Sunny Delight Achieves Zero Waste in U.S.

August 23, 2010 – Sunny Delight Beverages Company’s recently released 2009 Sustainability Report outlines the company’s accomplishments over the past year, the most significant being the achievement of their Zero Waste to Landfill Goal by all U.S. and Spanish manufacturing plants more than 3 years ahead of schedule. READ MORE

Whiskey Byproducts Could Produce Next Big Biofuel

August 19, 2010 – Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have patented a process to produce biobutanol, a fuel that can be used in existing gasoline engines without any modifications, from whiskey by-products. In utilizing waste products, the process eliminates the need to use arable land and food crops to produce a more sustainable fuel. READ MORE

HP's Next Generation: Re-Defining the Opportunity for Sustainable Impact



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Bonnie Nixon, formerly of Hewlett Packard, speaks candidly on the company’s efforts around fair trade, ethics and the modern day realities of helping to make the world a better place while working for one of the world's largest computer companies.
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