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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

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies

The Chemical industry places 9 out of 10 in Covalence’s EthicalQuote ranking (PDF), ahead of Oil & Gas. In 2007, the industry improved: Chemicals ranked 8th, outperforming Oil & Gas and Pharmaceuticals. Despite this progress, the Chemical...

Published 03-18-2008 7:07 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Global, Pollution, Business-to-Consumer, Agriculture, Biofuel, Hazardous Waste, Research & Technology, Today's Green Trend

Will Companies Get Carbon Labels Right?

A BusinessWeek article has tackled the issues surrounding carbon labels. As EL readers know, there’s lots of controversy - also hurdles - to overcome. Top of the list is that manufacturers and retailers have yet to come up with an easy way to provide...

Published 03-11-2008 6:42 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Global, Sustainability, Marketing, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Strategy & Leadership

PG&E Gets Energy From Cow Manure

Pacific Gas and Electric and BioEnergy Solutions say that their biogas-to-pipeline injection project in Fresno County has begun producing renewable natural gas derived from animal waste. It is the first project in California that will deliver pipeline...

Published 03-05-2008 8:30 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Agriculture, Clean Energy, Electricity, Utilities, Contracts & Installations

Nestle Releases CSR Report

At a joint Nestle-UN Global Compact event in New York, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO of Nestle, presented the company’s first Creating Shared Value report (read CSR report), including new figures on the impact of its business activities...

Published 03-04-2008 10:54 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Major Players, Reporting, Sustainability, Business-to-Consumer, Agriculture, Water, CSR Reports, Finance & Reporting

Whole Foods To Host Emeril Show On Planet Green

Whole Foods has landed a big sponsorship deal. When Discovery Communications launches Planet Green in June, one of its new shows, “Emeril Green,” will be shot at a Whole Foods. The daily show will focus on organic and locally grown foods....

Published 03-02-2008 2:49 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, U.S., Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Agriculture

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel

Dole Fresh Vegetables Company, a division of Dole Food, announced that it has converted 95 pieces of its farm equipment in Salinas, California, and Yuma, Arizona, to B20 biodiesel. The 95 machines include harvesters, tractors, and transport vehicles,...

Published 01-30-2008 11:52 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Agriculture, Hybrid Technology, Biofuel, Contracts & Installations

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site

Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants from a contaminated former oil storage facility near Kokomo, IN. They expect to plant the trees this summer. In a study published last October...

Published 01-24-2008 1:04 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Major Players, Facilities, Pollution, U.S., Automotive, Agriculture, Hazardous Waste, Research & Technology, Oil & Gas

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report. “The process of compiling information for this report has taught us a great deal, and we will continue to find ways to strengthen our commitment to our employees, customers, investors...

Published 01-23-2008 4:04 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Agriculture, Recycling, Water, CSR Reports, Finance & Reporting

Heinz Releases 2007 CSR Report

Heinz has released its 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. On the green side, Heinz says it is promoting sustainability initiatives through innovative packaging. For example, the iconic glass Heinz ketchup bottles are now manufactured using 100...

Published 01-11-2008 11:27 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Reporting, Climate, Manufacturing, Agriculture, CSR Reports, Finance & Reporting

GM’s Wagoner: U.S. Needs 15,000 More Ethanol Stations

The U.S. needs more stations that sell ethanol, claims GM CEO Rick Wagoner in this article. Currently, there are about 1400 such stations, 800 more than when GM first started selling its flex fuel cars, but there are 170,000 filling stations in this country...

Published 01-09-2008 10:40 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Major Players, U.S., Automotive, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Travel, Biofuel, Fuel Cells, Products & Planning

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and without requiring big changes in consumer lifestyles, according to “Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions:...

Published 11-30-2007 11:22 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, U.S., Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Economics, Industrial Goods, Electricity, Biofuel, Wind Energy, Utilities, Coal, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Wave Energy, Predictions, Nuclear, Biomass, Today's Trend, Strategy & Leadership, Carbon Offsets/RECs, Oil & Gas

Toshiba Launches Plant A Tree Program

Toshiba is promoting a new Carbon Zero Scheme in the UK, which lets customers donate $2.43 in exchange for Toshiba offsetting the lifetime carbon footprint of their laptop, engadget reports. You don’t have to purchase a new machine in order to participate...

Published 11-29-2007 1:15 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Europe, Major Players, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Agriculture, Products & Planning, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Food Companies, GRI Developing Sustainability Reporting Guidelines

Nestle, Bunge, Tyson Foods and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters are working with the Global Reporting Initiative to develop specific sustainability reporting guidelines for the food processing industry. The result, the Sector Supplement on Food Processing...

Published 11-20-2007 10:08 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Reporting, Sustainability, Agriculture, Finance & Reporting

Bayer To Spend $1.46 Billion On Green Initiatives

Bayer has launched a group-wide Bayer Climate Program with a goal of cutting CO2 emissions from its production facilities. In the new climate protection program, which is based on a new Bayer Policy on Climate Change, Bayer will tap its “specific...

Published 11-19-2007 11:47 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Major Players, Global, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Agriculture, Economics, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Construction, Biofuel, Strategy & Leadership

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