Environmental Resources

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif - November 27, 2006 - Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM) today announced it will begin sourcing, effective immediately, virtually all (in excess of 95 percent) of the paper used in the company's seven catalogs (Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn ...

Fundación Televisa, philantropic organization of the media giant in Mexico, Grupo Televisa, has donated 200 thousand pesos (about 20,000 usd) to Flora, Fauna y Cultura de México A.C. (FFMAC) for the conservation program of marine turtles that it has run for ten years.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2006--President George W.Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez today named the Premier Inc. healthcare alliance the only U.S. service company to win the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA).

Oxford - November 21, 2006 - Ecosystem Challenges and Business Implications, published today, warns that companies must transform business models and operations if they are to avoid major economic losses caused by the current degradation of ecosystems and the v...

SAN FRANCISCO - November 20, 2006 - In the wake of the harrowing predictions included in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and in light of other similar reports recently in the press, the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) announced today that the new Gr...

SILVER SPRING, MD - November 20, 2006 - The Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) has worked with Carbonfund.org, the leading non-profit carbon offset provider, to offset its 2006 conference and exposition, Achieving Energy Independence Through Electric ...

(SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.) November 16, 2006: The Center for Resource Solutions (CRS), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the preeminent renewable energy marketing conference in the U.S. will t...

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BURLINGTON, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2006--Responding to the u...

DENVER, CO, NOVEMBER 15, 2006--Leonardo Academy announced today that the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Annual Greenbuild International Conference & Exposition has earned event certification under Leonardo Academy's Cleaner and Greener® / Health and Climate...

Emergency water supplies in eastern Chad are overstretched and may not be able to meet the needs of thousands of people fleeing fighting in the area, international agency Oxfam International warned today.

Oxfam may have to cut the...