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Target Brand Sports Green-e & FSC Mixed Source Logos

Target Stores Archer Farms brand is using the Green-e certified label and new paperboard packaging certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Is Good reports. The Green-e logo and the FSC Mixed Source logo appear on Archer Farms Organic...

Published 11-05-2007 1:08 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Feature, Major Players, Environmental Affairs, U.S., credits, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Clean Energy, Recycling

Ogden Launches Green Shopping Site

Ogden Publications, home of magazines such as Utne Reader, Mother Earth News and Natural Home, has launched EarthMoment.com, a shopping portal that dedicates half of its commission-based...

Published 10-24-2007 12:38 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Products & Planning, Feature, U.S., credits, Contracts & Installations

Timberland Launches TV Ads, Offsets Campaign Emissions

Timberland is running TV ads for its new Earthkeepers boots. The company has estimated the carbon-dioxide emissions associated with the energy used to broadcast the ad, and is offsetting them with a wind farm in western Massachusetts, MediaPost reports...

Published 10-22-2007 1:17 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Feature, Major Players, credits, Marketing, Business-to-Consumer

Sundance Square Offsets 10% Of Energy Needs

Beginning in January, Sundance Square will offset 10 percent of its yearly energy needs for the next five years. Sundance Square says the purchase makes it the largest green power purchaser in Texas among EPA's real estate partners and the second...

Published 10-18-2007 11:06 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Feature, U.S., credits, Business-to-Consumer, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations

Cooler Lines Up Big Retail Partners, Offers Program For Manufacturers

Cooler has launched a new Website, www.ClimateCooler.com, where consumers can eliminate the global warming impact of their online purchases at over 400 e-commerce sites. When a consumer starts their online shopping at ClimateCooler.com and completes the...

Published 10-12-2007 1:22 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

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

Safeway To Install Solar Power Panels On 23 Stores

Safeway plans to power 23 California stores with solar energy. The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store in Dublin, California and plans to extend the program...

Published 09-14-2007 11:58 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Feature, Major Players, Sustainability, Facilities, credits, Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations, Electricity, Construction, Refitting, Solar Energy

Anheuser Buys Stake In Icelandic ‘Carbon Neutral’ Bottled-Water

Anheuser-Busch has taken a 20 percent equity stake in the environmentally conscious maker of Icelandic Glacial spring water and plans to sell the water nationwide in 2008, Reuters reports. The brand is already sold in some outlets of Target, Whole Foods...

Published 07-19-2007 10:46 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Europe, Products & Planning, Feature, Major Players, U.S., credits, Business-to-Consumer, Water

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate Response, a newly announced conference, is pulling together corporate sustainability...

Published 07-17-2007 1:17 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Global, Reporting, Environmental Affairs, Sustainability, Climate, Business-to-Business, Compliance, Waste, Pollution, U.S., credits, Marketing, Financial, Government, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Hi-Tech, Clean Energy, Travel, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Hybrid Technology, Electricity, Refitting, Consumption, Recycling, Oil & Gas, New Technology, Wind Energy, Utilities, Savings, Solar Energy, Industry Events, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Wave Energy, Hydroelectric, Mining, Predictions, Spending, Nuclear, Storage, Water

Stop & Shop Makes First REC Buy

Stop & Shop Supermarket is offsetting 100% of its electricity use at a new store in Kennebunk, Maine. Sterling Planet will annually supply 2,700,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy certificates...

Published 07-13-2007 12:18 PM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Feature, Facilities, credits, Contracts & Installations, Electricity

Nau Buys Carbon Offsets, RECs

Clothing company Nau is purchasing carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates to reduce its carbon footprint in several parts of its business. The carbon offsets, from The Climate Trust, will be applied to CO2 emissions associated with shipping...

Published 06-13-2007 10:13 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Sustainability, Facilities, U.S., credits, Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Manufacturing, Contracts & Installations, Travel, Electricity

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in the world. 1. Vestas Wind Systems has more than...

Published 06-04-2007 12:20 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Supply Chain, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Global, Reporting, Environmental Affairs, Sustainability, Climate, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Waste, Pollution, U.S., credits, VC Funding, Automotive, North America, Marketing, Financial, Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Fossil Fuels, Government, Conservation, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Hi-Tech, Clean Energy, Travel, Economics, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Awards, Industrial Goods, Hybrid Technology, Electricity, Refitting, Consumption, People, Recycling, Oil & Gas, Biofuel, New Technology, Wind Energy, Utilities, Savings, Solar Energy, Industry Events, Coal, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Wave Energy, Hydroelectric, Mining, Pricing, Education, Sales, Predictions, Spending, Nuclear, Storage, Fuel Cells, Biomass

HSBC Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

HSBC has released its 2006 corporate responsibility report (PDF). During 2006, HSBC's CO2 emissions per person increased due to "a change in the type of energy we were...

Published 05-29-2007 11:53 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Retail & Restaurants, Emissions, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Global, Reporting, Environmental Affairs, Business-to-Business, credits, Financial, Business Services

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