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Co-Op America: Greening Businesses Large and Small
The second annual Green Business Conference takes place in Chicago this month; in advance of the gathering GreenBiz Radio sat down with Denise Hamler, director of Co-Op America's green business programs, to learn how the world of green business has grown.
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Receiving Recognition
Seeking external recognition is a way to publicize the results of a successful climate change initiative. Such actions help a company celebrate milestones on the path towards sustainability and are a useful means of sharing best practices with the wider community.
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These days, green marketers are challenged to efficiently reach consumers and effectively impact their attitudes and behaviors. There are many reasons for this of course: consumer attitudes are still evolving, familiarity with green products is just emerging and purchase behavior is inconsistent within and across categories. As such, marketers tend to look for targetable demographic groups or behaviors that have a higher propensity for green.
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Last week, I had the opportunity to witness a milestone being reached in the effort to fight global warming: officials from 18 states - representing a majority of the US population - signed an agreement at Yale University that committed their states to action on global warming.
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TEMPE -- BP is tapping yet another university to help it on its quest of developing cost-effective ways of transforming low-carbon feedstocks into biofuel.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The cement industry, which is responsible for 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, discussed the ways -- limited though they may be -- to improve its environmental performance at a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, last week.
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SEATTLE, Wash. -- Recreational Equipment Inc. will open a new store today that will serve as a green building prototype for future retail construction.
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NORTHBROOK -- Donlen Corp. will join the Sierra Club to honor a company that boosts industry standards for reducing carbon emissions in the fleet industry.
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LONDON -- U.K. businesses have cut more than 10 million tons of C02 emissions since 2001 because of work with the Carbon Trust, according to the government-funded organization.
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LONDON -- The latest research from the environmental research organization looks at the carbon footprint of 185 investment funds in the United Kingdom. Three SRI funds take the top spots, and three-quarters of all SRI funds have smaller than average carbon footprints.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- A broad-based group of CEOs acknowledged the reality of climate change Tuesday with the release of a policy statement urging collective action.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Albuquerque and Fayetteville, Ark., received the top honors in the first annual award ceremony, which celebrates cities that adopt innovative practices to increase energy efficiency to help curb global warming.
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SYDNEY -- Supply Chain Consulting last month launched a software program that helps organizations capture, analyze and optimize the carbon emissions data across their operations.
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HEILIGENDAMM -- The world leaders at the G8 summit have agreed to pursue "substantial cuts" in greenhouse gas emissions, but fall short of a a concrete commitment, giving President Bush a wins on his insistence to avoid mandatory cuts.
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LONDON, -- North American companies are lagging behind their rivals in cutting down their carbon emissions, according to a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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NEW ORLEANS -- The company is the only utility company named by the EPA as a winner of this year's award for working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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PURCHASE -- The beverage giant's billion-kilowatt-hour purchase will offset 100 percent of the energy used by its U.S. operations.
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