Environmental Resources

Coffee drinkers can help protect endangered rain forests and small farming communities in Mexico when they enjoy Shade Grown Mexico™, which returns to Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) on August 16. Starbucks also announced today an elevated commitment to Conservation ...

Bill Dahlberg, Chairman and CEO of Southern Company, demonstrated his company’s commitment to environmental stewardship by announcing today that its subsidiary - Georgia Power - will construct 100 percent cooling towers on plants McDonough and Yates on the Chattahoochee Rive...

Lowe’s Companies, Inc., the world’s second largest home improvement retailer, today released the details of its landmark lumber and wood product procurement policy aimed at helping protect the world’s threatened forests. The company has committed to overhaul the sourcing of ...

Toyota's Boston Parts Distribution Center (PDC) and Boston Regional Sales Office, subsidiaries of Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) U.S.A., Inc., were honored this week for becoming certified to the International Standardization Organization (ISO) 14001 environmental management stand...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TMMNA) is challenging its North American-based suppliers to adopt environmental standards specified in its "Green Supplier Guidelines: Leadership in Environmental Performance" brochure being distributed this month.

Ford Motor Company will increase the fuel economy of its Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) fleet in the United States by 25 percent by the 2005 calendar year.

The commitment covers the company's entire SUV line-up, including the vehicles of Lan...

DaimlerChrysler presented it's Environmental Report 2000 today. Last year, DaimlerChrysler spent 1.5 billion euros on environmental protection. The lion's share-870 million euros-went into research and development activities for environmentally friendly products and producti...

Its Oklahoma operations have earned multinational forest products company Weyerhaeuser an "Outstanding Sponsor Achievement" award from the National Association of RC&D Councils.

The association is the umbrella organization of some 315...

Dana Corporation (NYSE: DCN) announced today that its Motors and Controls facility in Chihuahua, Mexico, has been awarded the “Clean Industry” certification from the Mexican government.

This is the highest recognition awarded by Mexico’s...

Gearing Up, a new SustainAbility report launched on 29 June in Washington, DC at the United Nations Foundation, concludes that despite achieving impressive momentum the corporate responsibility (CR) movement is bumping up against real limits. Some responsibl...