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Starbucks Coffee Co. has received approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to use recycled content in food packaging, specifically Starbucks hot beverage cups. Following successful testing, Starbucks expects to convert its hot beverage cups to 10% recycled material, an industry first.
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Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Intel have endorsed the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC) established by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM last month.
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Japan's Sharp Corporation announced it will begin sales of two types of new lighting systems that integrate solar cells and high-intensity, energy efficient, long-lasting and mercury-free LEDs (light emitting diodes).
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Department of Defense officials issued a new procurement policy last week urging employees and the military to 'buy green.'
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The nonprofit Center for a New American Dream commends Norm Thompson for consuming natural resources wisely and efficiently.
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Giant Eagle, Inc., one of the nation's largest food retailers and food distributors, has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 Energy Star Partner of the Year Award for Excellence in Energy Management.
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EPA's Green Supplier Network, thanks in part to Baxter Healthcare, has now expanded its innovative approach to incorporating lean/clean principles into the operations of a group of suppliers common to the health care industry.
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SC Johnson has announced that the company has exceeded its goal to use more environmentally preferable raw materials across all SC Johnson brands, crediting its Greenlist raw material classification system for the improvements.
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Starbucks Coffee Sourcing Guidelines are coming to the end of a two-year pilot; this has proved a surprising success for the coffee company whose brand has become synonymous with cappuccinos and skinny lattes on main streets around the world, as well as the target of activists in the wake of the Seattle protests. By Yasmin Crowther
by Emily Rabin
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Potlatch Corp. has become the first U.S.-headquartered, publicly traded forest products company to certify its forest management practices under the standards of the internationally recognized Forest Stewardship Council.
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Royal Philips Electronics has released the company’s second annual sustainability report, which extends the company’s sustainability principles to Philips’ 50.000 suppliers.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will work with Dell Inc. to recycle or redeploy its computer systems at the end of their lifecycles, Dell announced at the Federal Office Systems Exposition.
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ReCellular Inc., which trades, refurbishes and recycles used cell phones and other electronic devices has added 30,000 drop off recycling locations in the U.S. and expanding into Latin America.
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Office Depot has announced a five-year, $2.2 million strategy to develop the information, standards, and tools needed to advance the company's forest and biodiversity conservation policies.
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U.S. foodservice company Bon Appétit has announced a new purchasing policy designed to help protect human health by reducing the use of antibiotics in food animal production.
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Boulder Community Foothills Hospital has become the first hospital in the U.S. to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
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More than a dozen manufacturers, retailers, and shipping companies have announced the Clean Cargo Environmental Performance Survey for shippers to gauge their carriers’ environmental management performance and address the environmental impacts of their ocean-going transportation.
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The company has announced a new initiative to increase the auditing and third-party verification of the company's suppliers and their paper products.
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The World Resources Institute and the 12 members of its Green Power Market Development Group have announced 97 megawatts of groundbreaking green-power deals.
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Paper and building materials maker Boise Cascade Corp. drew rare praise from environmental groups after it said it would stop using timber from endangered, or old-growth, forests in the United States beginning in 2004.
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Atlanta-based Romanoff Floor Covering, one of the largest flooring installation companies in the U.S., is switching almost exclusively from a tropical plywood-based subflooring to one made from Canadian wheat straw.
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Eighteen Kaiser Permanente facilities have been recognized for their environmental performance, particularly in the areas of green building and eco-friendly purchasing policies.
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Kinko's, Inc. has adopted a new forest-based product procurement policy incorporating a strict set of vendor requirements and establishing a central set of recycled content standards.
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The Tower Companies, a Bethesda, Md.-based commercial and residential building developer, has announced the purchase of more than 24 million kilowatt hours of green power.
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McDonald’s Denmark has opened the world’s first HFC-free restaurant in Denmark as part of a new initiative to help reduce the potential effects of climate change on the environment.