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With the announcement of its first comprehensive, companywide sustainability commitments, Target may now be positioned to do for sustainable products what they did for well designed, yet affordable, consumer products -- and leap ahead of other retailers in the process
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The industry association that represents roughly 34,000 pubs and brewers in the U.K. has laid out 10 sustainability commitments that cover emissions, water use, renewable energy and others, including some goals that double the U.K. government's own targets.
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The tech industry association is expanding on its ubiquitous PUE formula to help data center owners and operators get a fuller picture of their environmental impacts by measuring the carbon outputs and water use of data centers.
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Last year’s Copenhagen negotiations recognized that developing countries need financial support. Developed countries made financial pledges, but several decisions must still be made to deliver these resources in the long-term.
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Despite the successes of some prizes in achieving environmental goals, prizes are not a cure-all for every woe, as the results -- or lack thereof -- of the overly ambitious $25 million Virgin Earth Challenge show.
by Dan Saccardi
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On the first day of the international climate change negotiations in Mexico, some of the world's largest consumer goods companies threw their collective weight behind efforts to tackle deforestation and to phase out potent greenhouse gases used in refrigeration.
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Tapping into the growing green movement in colleges and the power of social media, Johnson Controls Inc. is holding a contest for videos about how to build a more sustainable future.
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On the heels of similar long-term targets set by rival Procter & Gamble, the consumer products company aims to double sales while cutting the water, waste and carbon impacts of its products -- and its customers' use of those products -- by 2020.
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One area that is all too often overlooked in corporate sustainability plans is green procurement -- a move that, if done right, can raise the environmental performance of an entire industry.
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Many businesses are planning their budgets for 2011, offering a great opportunity to integrate sustainability deeper within your company's operations and culture. Here are some tips to get you started.
by Paul Baier
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A life cycle assessment revealed that the biggest environmental impacts from a pair of Levi's jeans is consumer use and cotton. Here's how the company is addressing both.
by Marc Gunther
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The sustainability arena has been abuzz over the latest corporate responsibility rankings: Newsweek's Greenest Companies and The Boston College Center/Reputation Institute CSR Index. While such assessments provide valuable insights, most are limited in informational value because they omit smaller companies.
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Experts predict that a government move to impose a carbon tax through the Carbon Reduction Commitment may actually help make the scheme less complicated.
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The vice president of CSR at the retail giant takes the mystery out of the Fortune 500 company's sustainability strategy -- and why JCPenney seems to lie low on sustainability even it's ranked as one of America's greenest retailers.
by Anna Clark
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Small businesses are hard-pressed enough to stay afloat in the best of times, but as sustainability becomes central to business survival, here are five lessons companies of all sizes are learning about the shift to sustainability.
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The Network for Business Sustainability, based at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, has as its mission bringing the most pressing questions on sustainability to the research agenda -- and feeding the results back into practice.
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Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products company, unveiled a bold new sustainability vision on Monday. But don't start the cheering yet.
by Marc Gunther
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Procter & Gamble today announced a series of long-term goals to move the global consumer products company to 100 percent green energy, zero waste and 100 percent recycled materials.
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General Mills became the latest company to declare it would only buy palm oil produced through environmentally and socially responsible means.
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Despite the rocky economy, executives from around the world are anticipating a big upswing in how climate change will impact their firms' operations. Here is what's behind their climate strategies.
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In the latest update to the Climate Counts scorecard, 30 out of 47 firms improved their scores, but huge differences remain sector by sector, and industry as a whole is failing to meet the climate challenge.
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Six months after the company convened 300 of the country's largest corporations, seven firms have posted updates on their progress in meeting Walmart's sustainability challenge.
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The total private investment in companies that are building the clean economy has climbed over $400 billion since the end of 2009, and puts G-20 countries on track to invest $20 trillion in sustainability by 2020.
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Samsung spent $865 million last year developing greener products and making its manufacturing sites more efficient as part of a multi-pronged efforts to become one of the most environmentally friendly companies in the world.
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Walmart and its fellow superpower in corporate sustainability, GE, have recently released their annual sustainability reports. While they highlight successes as well as shortcomings, they also reveal how the two firms are changing business, for the better.
by Marc Gunther