Environmental Resources

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - The British Prime Minister Tony Blair called on the international community to renew efforts to tackle the problems of poverty and deprivation in Africa, and climate change. Mr. Blair said the two issues would be priorities for the G-8 group of in...

Washington, D.C. - The World Environment Center (WEC) has selected Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) to receive its 21^st Annual Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development for international leadership in sustai...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - State-level action to reduce air pollution through emissions trading is working, according to a report released today by the World Resources Institute (WRI) here at the World Economic Forum. This success may point to the future for greenhouse gas ...

Brussels - The International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) has published the first sustainability report of the world steel industry. Forty-two steel companies worldwide, including the world's top five steel producers in 2003, have reported voluntarily on 11 sust...

UCLA Anderson School of Management, in conjunction with UCLA Institute of the Environment, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television and the California/EPA Integrated Waste Management Board, will host a Motion Picture Industry Sustainability Forum, entitled, "From...

PORTLAND, OR - Celilo Group Media, Inc. and Clean Edge, Inc. have been awarded a three-year contract to develop and operate a monthly newsletter, web site, and web conferencing service focused on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and smart energy in Washington, Ore...

SANTA CLARA, CA - Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford and Aerosmith's front man Steven Tyler joined Intel Corporation CEO Craig R. Barrett and eBay CEO and President Meg Whitman in "signing up" to preserve the environment by autographing two PCs for charitable auction ...

HOMER, AK - The Kenai Peninsula Borough has awarded Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge the coveted "Green Star Award". To earn this award, the staff had to demonstrate their commitment to environmental responsibility by recycling, reducing waste, and reducing energy use at t...

BAD VILBEL, GERMANY - It is certainly not appropriate to hold man-made climate change responsible for the natural disaster in Asia. Yet, global warming should be a basic consideration when the devastated energy infrastructure is going to be reconstructed.

CHICAGO, IL - The Nature Conservancy, with a generous $12 million gift from the Caterpillar Foundation of Caterpillar Inc., is undertaking an ambitious project that will guide protection of the world's vanishing freshwater supply and transform the way large working ri...