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The apparel company has continued its sustainability leadership with the publication of a detailed look at the environmental impacts of its supply chain, which totaled US$191 million in 2010.
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In the wake of a shareholder proxy action focused on transparency in its supply chain, Microsoft has just kicked off the first phase of a project that will help get its suppliers to start filing GRI-compliant sustainability reports.
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A panel at the forthcoming conference focuses on the looming implementation of a law that will require thousands of companies to get an unprecedented level of transparency into their supply chains -- and how companies can get up to speed, quickly.
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After months of investigation, a group of Chinese NGOs have detailed high levels of pollution and environmental non-compliance among some of Apple's known and suspected suppliers in the region.
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The computing giant's CEO announced a major shift in strategy last week, away from the consumer electronics market and into business services -- a move that echoes IBM's transition from six years ago.
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UPS's ninth annual sustainability report continues to dig in deep to the data on its environmental impacts, while at the same time raising the curtain on how its on green progress affects its customers.
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FedEx this week published its latest sustainability report, highlighting both the company's achievements on sustainability and where it's going from here.
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The company's 15 goals embrace everything from advancing global health through medical innovation to pushing sustainability through its supply chain; among its other goals are a 20 percent emissions reduction by 2015.
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The company is in the midst of a rollout of a supply chain management project that's based on the one Procter & Gamble developed and released to the public.
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The wireless carrier has set a series of ambitious goals regarding its own end-of-life electronics, as well as those it sells to individuals, and is taking a lifecycle approach to the e-waste challenge that could shift the entire industry.
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At a prime-time panel on sustainability at SAP's Sapphire Now event in Orlando this week, representatives from government, industry and nonprofits took the pulse of the greening of business and offered prescriptions for progress.
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The company's new guidelines, issued 20 years after it set terms of engagement focused on compliance in its supply chain, now aim to help the workers in its global supply chains prosper while also protecting the environment.
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Two tech industry groups have updated a voluntary program aimed at tracing the supply chains of minerals used in electronics to ensure they're not continuing to fund violence in central Africa.
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With China maintaining tight control over its rare earth mineral supplies, prices for the materials that are used in hybrid car batteries have spiked in recent months.
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The supply chain director at the world's third-largest apparel company explained in a recent webcast how Philips-Van Heusen works with suppliers to maintain their environmental and social performance.
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Long after the furor over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's stance on environmental legislation, a spinoff of a regional Chamber aims to share the expertise of its members to help businesses get greener, one step at a time.
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The latest update to the Environmental Paper Assessment Tool offers deeper data on the environmental impacts of paper production, helping companies make the greenest choices and achieve their supply chain sustainability goals.
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The automaker today announced plans to collect 100,000 pounds of booms used to soak up oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico and recycle them into under-hood components of the new Chevy Volt.
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A new report from BSR in partnership with the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition finds that a number of electronics suppliers have poor records for managing wastewater, in a country already seriously stressed for clean water.
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The materials are critical to a number of technology products, especially hybrid cars and cell phones; with China holding nearly all the world's stores of the materials, Hitachi aims to make itself more self sufficient through recycling.
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BSR's Ryan Schuchard gives a sneak peek at the Supply Chain Energy Innovation panel taking place at next month's BSR Conference, and talks about the current and future state of the art of managing energy use in your supply chain.
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The company's latest set of sustainability goals focuses on food and farming, with a focus on sustainable sourcing, educating and improving farmers' lives, cutting food waste, and sourcing more local food.
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With more than 600 eco-certifications on the market around the world today, companies must choose with great care what green labels are right for them and their customers. We talked to five companies to learn how they make their decisions.
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A new project from a California college aims to map how far the various ingredients in your taco-truck lunch have traveled to reach your plate.
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The first two weeks of the new decade have found widespread government, industry and academic support for applying IT's power to the greening business operations -- while also cutting the power needed to run the plugged-in world.