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Four best practices gleaned from the retail giant's sustainability progress.
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Cloud computing could redefine the way we think about business ethics and sustainability. Here's how the cloud could affect two of our biggest sustainability challenges: climate change and human rights.
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John Hellweg, recently retired from General Mills, shares the effort it took to complete a nearly 25-year-long process to turn a waste stream into a fuel source.
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Walmart in particular marks a big leap forward, coming up from 15th place three months ago to land in third place. Generating green power on-site -- where Walmart is the second-biggest green power creator -- is what helped move the retailer up.
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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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The market for electric cars is so distorted by government subsidies that it's all but impossible to determine the true cost of an electric car.
by Marc Gunther
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Today, Walmart made its first major commitment to reduce greenhouse gases -- but in typical fashion, rather than set a tough goal that might affect its own growth curve, the company plans to turn up the pressure on its thousands of suppliers to reduce their emissions.
by Marc Gunther
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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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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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The U.S. Labor Department's release this week of $100 million in Recovery Act funds for green job training includes a nearly $3 million grant to New York City's innovative energy efficiency education program for building superintendents.<br />
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A management consulting firm released a new report outlining the steps any company can take to get on the path toward environmental sustainability. How many of these has your firm already accomplished?
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The Standing Stone Brewing Company in Oregon has cooked up a way to reduce its carbon footprint while boosting employee engagement as well as employee health: a free bicycle program for workers based on the idea that if you give them bikes, they will ride.
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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower
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One of the automaker's oldest and largest plants, shuttered in 2007, will be converted to making solar panel and energy storage technologies, and could create as many as 4,000 jobs.
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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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Businesses are tapping a wellspring of employees who may not sit on a green team or sustainability committee at their company, but are eager to roll up their sleeves and make pointed suggestions about reducing energy consumption, improving recycling efforts, or boosting water conservation.
by Judith Nemes
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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.