Eurostar, Europe’s biggest train operator, has a plan to reduce its carbon footprint and a new set of new environmental initiatives, Reuters reports.
The company has bought carbon offsets. The company also plans to make its onboard train lighting, heating and cooling more energy efficient.
It also is working to reduce its carbon emissions 35 percent by [...]
On the back of efforts to source 34 percent of its electricity from renewables and building the largest corporate hybrid car fleet in the U.S., Johnson & Johnson has been able to cut its emissions 9 percent, when compared to a 1990 baseline. During the same time period, the multinational’s global sales have risen 400 [...]
Shortly after Greenpeace issued its report on shoe companies sourcing leather from denuded Amazon rainforest, Nike issued a statement that it would purchase no leather from cattle grown on Amazon rainforest.
Now, Greenpeace UK is pushing for other shoe manufacturers, including Reebok, Adidas, Timberland and Clarks, to follow suit.
The report, “Slaughtering the Amazon,” details how much [...]
Corportations can save $20-60 per computer workstation by implementing power management features, but despite the average payback of less than one year to implement such programs, corporations are reluctant to install them for two key reasons — the initial cost of implementation and the time investment required by the information technology (IT) department, which is [...]
While electronics waste or e-waste recycling partnerships are providing significant environmental benefits by keeping waste out of landfills, they are also giving manufacturers and retailers an environmental marketing edge by providing their customers with a needed service, together with financial incentives, whether its through gift cards or charitable donations.
Here are a few of the most [...]
This week, Environmental Leader is presenting a five part series by Jonathan Ballantine entitled “Building Trust in Corporate Responsibility.”
Here is Part Five, “Translating Stakeholder Dialogue into Practice.”
Stakeholder engagement is only the first of many steps in building trust and confidence with stakeholders.
All stakeholders will want to know that their concerns have been heard and, ideally, [...]
Although the United States has become one of the more aggressive nations in promoting renewable energy thanks in part to support from the Obama Administration, it is still lagging behind solar market leaders like Spain and Germany, according to a new report from Pike Research. A key finding reveals that federal level tax credits and [...]
FedEx Corp. has expanded its hybrid-electric delivery fleet from 172 to 264 with the addition of 92 retrofitted trucks. These hybrids are touted as the first standard FedEx delivery trucks converted to hybrid-electric systems. The retrofitted hybrid vehicles will be placed into service in California, primarily in the Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco [...]
Two separate announcements signal the willingness of software providers to gain market share for their clean tech and carbon tracking software - even if that means offering the software for free.
Autodesk and Tririga are giving away versions of their software to qualified corporations.
Autodesk, which values its software package at $150,000 or more, is granting licenses [...]
In a shot across the bow of climate change legislation, business groups have warned Congress that the U.S. risks starting a “green trade war” if tariffs are levied against carbon-intensive goods.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Foreign Trade Council and two other groups fired off the letter July 23, Reuters reports.
“We urge the Senate [...]