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Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz

Some Fortune 500 companies are getting involved in ecosystem services. That is, finding ways to repay nature for the products it produces, according to an article by Marc Gunther in Fortune. Starbucks is the latest. It will finance Conservation International’s...

Published 03-23-2008 10:39 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Business-to-Business, Agriculture, Travel, Asia, Contracts & Installations, Carbon Offsets/RECs, Central & South America

Patagonia Tracks Carbon ‘Footprints’

In May 2007, as part of the Footprint Chronicles, a group of 10 Patagonia employees were sent to travel the world, tracking five products from the design studio to the raw-materials stage to Patagonia’s Nevada distribution center, Fast Company reports...

Published 03-23-2008 9:28 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Asia, Products & Planning

Avery Dennison Puts FSC Logo On Clothing Tags

Avery Dennison tag and label manufacturing facilities in China and Korea have been given the Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody certificate. The accreditation means that apparel manufacturers and retailers can now display the FSC logo on tags...

Published 03-17-2008 5:47 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Business-to-Consumer, Asia, Products & Planning, Retail & Restaurants

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz

At WSJ’s ECO:nomics conference, the Rainforest Action Network ambushed Patricia Woertz, chairman, president and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland over ADM’s use of palm oil from endangered forests in Southeast Asia, and tried to hand her a petition...

Published 03-16-2008 4:52 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Agriculture, Asia, People, Biofuel, Strategy & Leadership, Today's Green Video

China’s Solar Industry Feels The Heat

Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co. in China’s Henan Province is a green energy company that produces polysilicon for solar panels. But, according to a Washington Post article, the company is guilty of dumping silicon tetrachloride, the byproduct...

Published 03-10-2008 6:04 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Feature, Business-to-Business, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Asia, Solar Energy, Products & Planning

DHL Program Lets Customers Offset Shipping Emissions

DHL has launched a carbon neutral shipping service, DHL GoGreen Express, in the Asia Pacific region. DHL says the program is part of the company’s GoGreen range of carbon-neutral and low-carbon shipping options that are available in Europe and were...

Published 03-10-2008 3:05 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Europe, Major Players, Business Services, Asia, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Sony To ‘Address Consumers Directly’ About Environment

Sony says it will address consumers directly across various channels to enhance the communication of meaningful environmental information, vnunet.com reports. Sony was one of the companies that signed the Tokyo Declaration at the Climate Savers recent...

Published 02-22-2008 12:37 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Marketing, Hi-Tech, Asia, Products & Planning

Hitachi’s CTO Hu Yoshida On Green Storage

With storage hardware poised to overtake servers as the power hogs of the data center, Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida discusses his company’s approach to boosting its products’ eco-friendliness.

Published 02-20-2008 6:16 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Hi-Tech, Asia, New Technology, Research & Technology, Today's Green Video

Chinese Polluters Relocate To Avoid Environmental Scrutiny

Chinese factories are moving inland from coastal regions to provinces such as Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangxi in order to escape tighter environmental scrutiny, according to China’s Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Reuters reports...

Published 02-20-2008 11:07 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Facilities, Pollution, Manufacturing, Asia, Policy & Law

Toy Makers, Retailers Announce New Safety Policies

The Toy Industry Association has endorsed the general direction of a proposal for a new toy testing and safety verification system for toys sold in the U.S. market. Key elements of the program include procedures for design hazard analysis, auditing manufacturing...

Published 02-19-2008 8:31 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Manufacturing, Asia, Policy & Law

HP, Sony, Nike, Nokia Among Tokyo Declaration Signatories

A business group including companies such as HP, Sony, Nokia and Nike have released the Tokyo Declaration, a joint call to tackle climate change. Signing the declaration at the Climate Savers Summit 2008 held by WWF and Sony in Tokyo, a dozen business...

Published 02-18-2008 10:22 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Sustainability, Climate, Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer, Asia, Strategy & Leadership

HP Pledges To Cut Emissions

HP officials have pledged to reduce emissions from operations and the use of its products by six million tons below 2005 levels by 2010. The announcement, made at the Climate Savers summit held this week in Tokyo, also included a commitment to reduce...

Published 02-13-2008 2:01 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Major Players, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Hi-Tech, Asia, Strategy & Leadership

Staples Stops Sourcing Paper From APP

Staples has joined retailers like Office Depot in no longer doing business with Asia Pulp & Paper due to environmental concerns, Reuters reports. Environmental groups say APP is involved in illegal logging in Indonesia and China and that the company’s...

Published 02-11-2008 10:02 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Conservation, Asia, Contracts & Installations, Retail & Restaurants

Who Will Fund The Push For Clean Energy?

Due to volatile markets and plunging stocks, Wall Street is not so keen on funding renewable energy projects involving new technologies, Reuters reports. That’s what Aaron Lubowitz, managing director of Morgan Stanley’s global structured products...

Published 02-08-2008 11:16 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Europe, Global, Business-to-Business, U.S., Government, Clean Energy, Economics, Asia, New Technology, Wind Energy, Industry Events, Wave Energy, Finance & Reporting

Most Companies Have No Supply Chain Policy

A new survey by Bearing Point found that almost two thirds of firms surveyed had taken no action to cut the environmental impact of their supply chain. The survey of over 600 directors found that only 35 percent had an explicit green supply chain strategy...

Published 02-06-2008 1:07 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Europe, Major Players, Global, U.S., Business Services, Asia, Research & Technology

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