David Martel's Blog Posts Tagged 'Green' (82)

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New York and San Francisco have won the World Green Building Council’s Government Leadership Awards for Excellence in City Policy for Green Building. New York City won the Industry Transformation Award for its Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, part of the PlanNYC sustainability program to reduce citywide carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030. San Francisco won the Best…

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AT&T Developer Program Contest Encourages Creation of Applications With Environmental and Energy-Efficient Benefits

(3BL Media / theCSRfeed) Dallas, Texas -…

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Thrown away tires create a huge fire hazard as well as other environmental issues. Find a tire recycling facility to avoid combustion as well as toxic leaching.

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Cross post from 3BLMedia - Heineken’s Gosser brewery is on track to become the world’s first carbon-neutral beer brewing facility. Through its Green Brewery Project, the Gosser brand, Austria’s largest, aims to reduce CO2 emissions to zero; reduce natural gas use to zero; and to power the plant through a mix of renewable energy sources including solar and biogas. Gosser has been part of the Heineken…

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Tiffany’s has launched a website dedicated to corporate social responsibility initiatives. The new site contains the company’s first annual, web-based Corporate Responsibility Report. The Report details Tiffany’s history of environmental and social responsibility, and its Fiscal Year 2010 sustainability performance. Included are sections on Tiffany’s sourcing of precious materials from responsibly mined metal deposits;…

SC Johnson and GfK Roper Consulting have released survey findings on American consumer green attitudes and behaviors. Part of the 20^th Anniversary Green Gauge Survey, the SC Johnson report concludes that 75 percent of American consumers say they feel good when they take steps to help the environment. The survey also shows that compared to 1990,…

(Cross post from 3BL Media / theCSRfeed) Waterbury, VT and Oakland, CA - September 22, 2011 - Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States has named Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR), a leader in specialty coffee and coffee makers, the largest purchaser of Fair Trade…

(Cross post from 3BL Media / theCSRfeed) September 14, 2011 - There are 4 great events over the next few weeks—one even starts today! Here at Climate Counts, we’re always trying to expand our knowledge of other climate organizations out there and we want our supporters to be armed with the latest knowledge related to climate change,…

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Governor Nikki Haley along with Jasper County and South Carolina business and political leaders come together on July 14th, 2011 to welcome Be Green Packaging to the state.

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The Barrick Gold Corporation is spending $75 million on an environmental cleanup at its mining site in the Dominican Republic. Improper closing of the former mine in 1999 resulted in soil and water pollution. Barrick has completed the rehabilitation…

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Allstate Insurance Company has released its annual Social Responsibility Report. The report, titled “When Good Hands People Give Back,” reviews Allstate’s community involvement and sustainability strategy. Among the highlights for 2010: contributions of $30 million to community projects, including one-third of Allstate Foundation grants and corporate…

A case study of Image Microsystems reveals the critical role of PR in new business development for sustainability-focused companies. The Texas business, which recycles e-waste from ink jet cartridges into a…

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Is CSR a waste of money? That’s the topic to be debated at CR Magazine’s COMMITForum, to be held in New York this September. Two teams will present their cases for and against the resolution, “Resolved that when companies…