AMSTERDAM, -- More companies than ever before filed corporate sustainability reports that meet the Global Reporting Initiative's guidelines in 2008, but those firms are a tiny minority of the world's corporations.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The U.K.'s Low Carbon Transition Plan released Wednesday secures wide-ranging praise as the government outlines how it plans to deliver deep emission cuts of 34 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

HEERLEN, -- DSM, a Dutch chemical and materials company, plans to release a greener version of a chemical used in polymers, resins, food and pharmaceuticals later this year.

BEIJING, CHINA -- The world’s top two emitters of greenhouse gases will launch a research center to explore low-carbon technologies for green buildings, clean cars and carbon capture and storage.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Xerox has announced the winners of its annual Earth Awards, a broad range of projects from around the world that saved $7.3 million, eliminated 1.3 million pounds of waste and reduced energy use by 500,000 kilowatt hours.

ROME, -- In 2005, chemical products and technologies like insulation, fertilizers and CFLs helped save more than two to three times as many greenhouse gas emissions than they contributed to emitting.

DALLAS, Texas -- The company's efforts trimmed energy use by 5 percent and water consumption by 7.3 percent, while overall greenhouse gas emissions shrank 2.8 percent.

GLAND, -- The Better Cotton Initiative plans to have cotton produced to its standards on the global market next year and expand its efforts in Brazil, India, Pakistan, Africa and other countries.

AMSTERDAM, -- IBM and Cisco will join Accenture to help the City of Amsterdam in its quest to become the European Union’s first “smart city.” The pilot project will serve as a testing ground to prove that smart grid technologies can better manage energy use and transmission while also reducing electricity outages and congestion.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy today released a spreadsheet calculator that will estimate the number of jobs likely to be created by state or municipal energy efficiency projects.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Postal Service will swap 6,500 old vehicles with a mix of hybrids, flex-fuel and four-cylinder replacements with the help of stimulus funds and the U.S. General Services Administration.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Citing a need for increasing the number of women eligible for jobs in a growing green economy, the Wal-Mart Foundation is partnering with the Business and Professional Women's Foundation to provide green job training for women.

-- has the U.S. gaming industry -- a $32 billion dollar sector -- been ignored by sustainability ranking and assessment organizations?

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Energy and Treasury departments released eagerly awaited guidance Thursday to help renewable energy project developers apply for roughly $3 billion in stimulus funds, which experts say will open the market to many technologies that weren't economically feasible before.

STURTEVANT, Wis. -- JohnsonDiversey sells products in more than 175 countries but has put in place a series of projects that will cut logistics-related greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter while allowing the company to trim lead times on product deliveries and boost service levels.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- In its 2008 corporate sustainability report, UPS sets a hard target for emissions reductions in what it says is the world's ninth-largest airline, and lays out how a steady focus on efficiency is trimming the company's footprint.

-- Bamboo has spread into the world of consumer products as fast as it grows in the wild, but the higher demand opens the door for overharvesting, price fluctuations and quality issues. BooShoot Gardens is on a mission to ensure the world's supply of bamboo stays sustainable by cloning bamboo plants and even trying to get bamboo growing again in the U.S.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Naked Juice and Earthbound Farm have each debuted packaging made with 100 percent post-consumer recycled content, some of the first instances of 100 percent recycled packaging for food and drink products.