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Will Companies Ditch Face-To-Face Meetings For Video Conferencing?

With air-related travel by Ceres' staff doubling to more than 475,000 miles last year,Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, writes in a Worldchanging article that, "We could buy carbon credits, of course, but why not cut to the chase and replace unnecessary flying with conference calls or, better...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-06-2007
JohnsonDiversey Unveils $24 Million Green Distribution Center

JohnsonDiversey's new $24 million, 550,000 square foot distribution center in Sturtevant, Wisconsin uses more than 30 percent recycled materials, the Journal Times reports. Coupled......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2007
NEC Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

NEC's Annual CSR Report for 2007 provides an in-depth overview of its CSR-related activities, including corporate governance (ethics and compliance, risk management and information security) and initiatives. You can see the environmental report here and the CSR Digest here. NEC has created a CSR...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2007
UPS Pushes Paperless Billing, Sort Of

With less than one percent of UPS's small- to medium-sized business customers using the electronic billing option, UPS recently surveyed its customers to find out what would make them make the switch away from paper. What they discovered was that the primary motivator would be the environment. To...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2007
iLinc Positions Video Conferencing As Emissions-Cutting Tool

Web and audio conferencing software company iLinc Communications says that customers, partners and employees participating in its iReduce program have saved a combined total of one billion pounds of CO2 by avoiding business travel. North Carolina-based Global Knowledge Training calculates that it prevents...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2007
Chevron Completes $13.6 Million Energy Efficiency Project For Colorado

Upgrades to 20 state buildings in Colorado are expected to reduce energy costs at the facilities by 25 to 30 percent, saving state taxpayers $924,000 annually and more than $20 million over the next two decades. The upgrades also will reduce the facilities' demand for energy from local utilities...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2007
GE’s Jeff Renaud Discusses Ecomagination And Transparency

There's an interview from Sustainable Life Media with Jeff Renaud, Director of GE's Ecomagination program. In it, Renaud says that at the heart of Ecomagination is the belief that financial and environmental performance can work together to drive growth for GE and its customers and that........

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2007
Logicalis Joins Green Grid

Logicalis has joined the Green Grid, a consortium of companies working to advance energy efficiency in data centers and computing ecosystems. “We look forward......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2007
Chubb Assembles Green Energy Team

The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has formed a green energy team, made up of underwriters and loss control specialists. The team will develop core commercial insurance products and services geared toward customers that operate within this sector. Chubb plans to......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-20-2007
EDS Cuts Emissions From Printing Operations 72%

EDS has launched a set of service offerings to support customers seeking to improve their impact on the environment by reducing carbon emissions, Computerworld reports. Through its Go For Green Program......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-17-2007

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