Displaying 376 - 397 of 397
376
Article
The world's largest construction market, facing a looming energy shortage, has embraced green designs for both new buildings and retrofitting older structures.
378
Article
The San Francisco Green Business Program has officially recognized the Wells Fargo's Haight Street store -- the first and only bank in San Francisco to meet its green business standards.
379
Article
China's burgeoning metals industry is facing increased policing of air and water pollution, which authorities hope will help push the sector toward consolidation and better technology.
380
Article
There's nothing wrong with a good management system to encourage a quality approach to managing key aspects of corporate responsibility. It would just be good if this didn't come to be the badge that defines a 'good company,' says Mallen Baker.
by Emily Rabin
381
Article
An international panel of industry experts gathered last week to launch a new American eco-label for sustainably produced floral products.
382
Article
The International Organization for Standardization has resolved to develop an international standard for social responsibility.
383
Article
Coffee drinkers at select Citigroup offices around the nation will soon be switching to 100% Rainforest Alliance-certified coffee, thanks to a new company partnership with ARAMARK, a worldwide managed services provider, and specialty coffee supplier Java City.
384
Article
Two Minnesota businesses have realized that attending to public concerns about forest management through the certification of pallets can stimulate potential markets.
by Emily Rabin
385
Article
Sodexho, an international provider of food and facilities management services, has announced plans to feature foods endorsed by the Food Alliance, a certifier of environmentally preferable and socially responsible agricultural practices.
386
Article
London’s mayor has called on purchasers in the capital’s organisations and boroughs to buy food and drink products bearing the Fairtrade label.
387
Article
Steel manufacturer Dofasco Inc. has been recognized for the success of its voluntary program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
388
Article
Leading furniture manufacturer and designer Knoll Inc. recently received Forest Stewardship Council chain-of-custody certification for three of its manufacturing plants.
389
Article
The National Fisheries Institute has told the Commerce and State Departments that it supports eco-labeling standards developed by the international Food and Agriculture Organization.
390
Article
Japanese companies are making strides in eco-design, recycling, and lead-free soldering technologies -– and could help European businesses cope with tighter EU legislation on products and waste.
391
Article
During the past decade, Chiquita Brands International, the company that invented the banana industry, has been gradually reinventing it, one bunch at a time. By Tensie Whelan
392
Article
The U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Transportation launched a new Web site this week in support of its the Commuter Choice Leadership Initiative, a partnership to reduce air pollution and global warming associated with vehicle use.
393
Article
Seventh Generation, Inc., a leading brand of natural household products in the U.S., now provides consumers with the reassurance that its recycled paper towels are certified “Processed Chlorine-Free.”
394
Article
What should a college do with a science center that's outlived its usefulness, and sits on the perfect site for a new college library? Especially Middlebury College, which prides itself on its commitment to the environment? Rather than haul the rubble to the landfill, the College plans to recycle 98% of the six-story building.
395
Article
Landowners of a block near the Arlington County Courthouse aim to improve their property, and if things go as planned they’ll soon have a smart “green” office building, all seven stories and 250,000 square feet of it.
396
Article
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has become the first federal member of the U.S. Green Building Council, a coalition of more than 500 leading international organizations working to hasten adoption of green building practices, technologies, policies, and standards.
397
Article
A new company, TripleE, has been certified to offer Climate Neutral air travel, the first U.S. travel agency to do so.