Environmental Resources

SAN FRANCISCO - The Green Economy has come a long way since the days of hippie hemp T-shirts. Nowadays multimillion-dollar companies are involved in socially responsible investment, organic farming, environmentally friendly home building, alternative energy and Fair T...

NEW ORLEANS - Shell Oil Company last week announced that it has partnered with the America's WETLAND Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana and the State of Louisiana to support a statewide initiative to promote the Louisiana wetlands as an attractive 'eco-cultural' touri...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - One of the last protected homes for the world's giant panda is now unwired. Intel Corporation has deployed a campus-wide broadband and wireless communications network within China's Wolong Nature Reserve to aid researchers in the study, care and...

WASHINGTON, DC - Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) was awarded a 2004 Award for Leadership in Energy Management by the U.S. EPA's ENERGY STAR Program. An ENERGY STAR award winner for the second consecutive year, Kodak continues to demonstrate the value of superior energy perf...

Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of Pepsi Co, Inc. (NYSE: PEP), is the world's largest convenience food company. Frito-Lay has implemented a successful company-wide energy-efficiency and water conservation effort for its 44 manufacturing plants and 193 distribution centers in ...

MIDDLEBURY, VT - With two weeks until Election Day, students at Middlebury College rallied to declare their independence from dirty energy. Students listened to speeches by climate change expert Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, and Bob Huth, Vice President ...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) released a new tool that is the latest in a series of GEMI tools showing how environmental, health and safety (EHS) excellence can enhance the business performance of companies. Transparenc...

CHICAGO - Lawndale community kids got a kick out of their own world-class soccer field when gold medal-winning soccer stars Mia Hamm and Briana Scurry from the U.S. Women's National Team visited Douglas Park today to dedicate a new half-million dollar FieldTurf soccer...

NEW YORK - This periodic newsletter offers a roundup of recent highlights from Alcoa's operations worldwide. Taken individually, these summaries provide insight into Alcoa's performance in the economic, environmental, and social realms. Taken together, they reveal t...

LAKE SUCCESS, NY - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), is among 15 corporate, government, non-profit and education organizations receiving the 2004 WasteWise Program Champion Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for impleme...