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Rapidly growing interest in environmentally friendly 'green' computers has resulted in more than 300 computers being registered with EPEAT, the green computer standard released in July. Nine manufacturers currently participate in the program.
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Companies are facing accelerating pressures to adopt safer chemicals principles and practices and to cajole, encourage, or force their supply chains to join them. The demands stem both from governments and from leadership companies in the private sector. Corporate strategic planners had better pay attention, lest they get shut out of markets, says Rich Liroff.
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Thanks to an enterprising presentation by an eco-conscious employee, a health-care giant switched to more-efficient bulbs and saved a wad of dough as a result. Here's how they did it -- and you can, too. By Joel Makower
by Emily Rabin
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Ricoh Co., a major Japanese manufacturer of office equipment and supplies, will ask its suppliers of parts and other materials to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions as part of its green procurement activities.
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Industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation joins a group of large manufacturers committed to sharing both lean -- and clean -- manufacturing techniques and environmental process improvements with their small and medium-sized suppliers.
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As part of its efforts to identify sustainable solutions and practices in its business operations, Wal-Mart is hosting a two-day meeting this week on issues and opportunities related to the sustainable production and use of textiles.
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Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a year-long training program aimed at providing the management staff of its suppliers in China with the knowledge to improve social and environmental responsibility practices in their factories.
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Seventeen investing organizations collectively representing more than $22 billion in assets under management have issued a joint statement calling for other financial professionals and investors to join with them in supporting shareholder resolutions seeking better disclosure regarding the risks of toxics in products, and better corporate strategies for moving to safer alternatives when they are available.
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Last week, Wal-Mart joined leading energy executives in their startling call for mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. The heart of this monolithic retail Grinch grew three sizes that day.
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The certification of Fujitsu's environmental management system, which Fujitsu Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries in Japan received in March 2005, has now been expanded to cover its global consolidated subsidiaries outside of Japan as well.
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Eight of the world's top jewelry retailers have pledged to move away from 'dirty' gold sales, calling on mining corporations to ensure that gold is produced in more socially and environmentally responsible ways.
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Wal-Mart has pledged to source all of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish for the North American market from fisheries that meet the Marine Stewardship Council's independent environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries.
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The new award honors the GM supplier that best supports the companies' environmental initiatives, exhibits transparency in its environmental performance, and brings new technologies to GM that improve environmental performance of the company's facilities or products.