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Costa Coffee, the Kenco Coffee Company ad Mars Inc. are among the winners of Rainforest Alliance's Sustainability Standard-Setter Awards for 2011.
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Members of the new platform, called Global Compact LEAD, will work to implement the newly unveiled Blueprint for Corporate Leadership, a roadmap released by the UN Global Compact last year. The LEAD program's new members include Accenture, Intel, KPMG, Newmont Mining Corp., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Symantec, Coca-Cola, Novo Nordisk and Heineken, among others.
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Amtrak, the government-owned passenger rail corporation in the U.S., has awarded Siemens a $466 million contract to build 70 electric locomotives with energy efficient features.
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General Electric Company plans to invest $432 million in the next four years to establish four design and manufacturing centers for energy efficient refrigerators in the U.S. and create 500 jobs in the process.
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Representatives of nearly 50 socially responsible investing groups have issued a public call to the electronics industry to step up their oversight of suppliers.
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Global Green Consulting Group launched a new service today to help companies keep their sustainability initiatives moving in the right direction, regardless of where they are in the journey.
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"The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work.
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The U.S. General Services Administration has created the new position of Chief Greening Officer in a bid to move forward President Barack Obama's federal sustainability agenda. It also said Monday it has moved its Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings to the Office of Governmentwide Policy.
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A new study of leading companies finds that engaging and educating employees about sustainability practices can save millions in costs by boosting efficiency, while making green initiatives more likely to succeed.
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General Electric Company, the PG&E Corporation and Tnt Nv, an international express and mail delivery service based in the Netherlands, rank first, second and third place respectively on Corporate Knights magazine's sixth annual Global 100 list of most sustainable firms.
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As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
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San Francisco businesses and residents have composted more than 620,000 tons of food and other scraps since 1996 through the city’s green cart program, whose processed material is now used at almost 200 Northern California vineyards and farms.<br />
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Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. went from sending 250,000 pounds of solid waste to landfills to becoming zero waste in less than three years.
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The 2009 Black Book of Outsourcing Vendors takes a look at which firms offer the strongest environmental initiatives for companies looking to delegate business operations to third parties.
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In 2008, Pitney Bowes diverted 7,523 tons of materials from landfills or incineration, such as plastic machine-covers, cardboard, foam and film packaging, wooden pallets, steel, aluminum, copper and electronics, according to its 2008 Global Corporate Responsibility report released Monday.
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In a survey of almost 2,000 employees, the company found that, in addition to increasing job satisfaction among teleworking employees, Cisco saved $277 million as a result of its flexible work program.
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Building retrofits, green jobs and public transit are the three keys to making the country's cities more sustainable, and although many cities are getting underway with these projects, much progress is needed quickly, according to a new report from Living Cities.
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Casdex Inc. and CinnaWorks, the largest franchisee of the Cinnabon brand, are partnering to digitally archive the pastry retailer's HR records.
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Enterprise expanded its business-to-business car sharing service nationwide in a move it says will accommodate the recent surge in public transportation ridership, the company said Tuesday.
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As part of a new partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project, Wal-Mart announced yesterday that it will measure the energy use and emissions of the entire supply chain of seven product categories, and find ways to increase their energy efficiency.
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In the ninth annual survey of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Norwegian aluminum company Norsk Hydro took the overall top score, while BMW topped the automotive index for the third year running.
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The House of Representatives passed a sweeping energy bill Saturday that included a provision directing millions of dollars toward training a "green" workforce.
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The office supplies company has announced that it will make Domtar's EarthChoice Paper -- certified to Forest Stewardship Council standards and endorsed by the Rainforest Alliance -- widely available in its stores for the first time in the U.S.
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For the 12th annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, the EPA recognized a combination of academic and private-sector innovations in reducing or eliminating waste in manufacturing processes.
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At the Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards, more than 100 banks from around the world competed for recognition for their contributions to social and environmental development.