Sustainability

Oslo, Norway - May 1, 2009 - Leonardo Academy is proud to announce that the first American unsupported ski trek to the North Pole, completed Saturday, April 25, was a carbon-neutral expedition. Leonardo Academy donated its services to John Huston and Tyler Fish, founders of ...

Washington, DC - May 1, 2009 - The Aspen Institute recently announced changes to the membership of its Board of Trustees. Two new members--James S. Crown and Beatrice W. Welters--were elected as new trustees and will serve a two-year term that is currently in effect. Henriet...

MERCER ISLAND, WA. - April 29, 2009 - Which is more sustainable, physical mail or email, a magazine page or a web page, a book or an ebook? Which has the larger carbon footprint and what is the risk to a brand if their messaging says one thing and their media supply chain ch...

New York, NY - April 30, 2009 - The Rainforest Alliance, an international nonprofit conservation organization, announces its 2009 honorees at its annual gala on May 6 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Sustainability commitments from global businesse...

Madison, WI - April 29, 2009 - Leonardo Academy is seeking applications for three vacant seats on the National Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standards Committee within the 'User' Interest Category. Individuals or representatives of entities that use agricultural products ...

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. - April 29, 2009 - Kohl's Department Stores (NYSE: KSS) announced today that 110 additional Kohl's stores earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) ENERGY STAR label, a nationally recognized symbol for superior energy efficiency and envi...

- April 29, 2009 - Bon Appétit Management Company becomes the first food service company to establish game-changing fair labor requirements that integrate: minimum fair wage, worker empowerment stipulations, and incentives to growers who exceed minimum requirements of the...

BURLINGTON, VT. April 28, 2009 - Imagine a new culture framed around quality of life not limitless growth and consumption. That is, arguably, a fair summary of the article, co-authored by Rachael Beddoe, UVM graduate student, Joshua Farley, an economist at the University of...

Cohoes, NY - April 28, 2009 - Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. has been ranked as the number one Green-IT Organization for 2009 by IDG's Computerworld.

For the second year in a row, Computerworld set out to identify organizations that are implementing s...

BLAINE, Minn. - April 28, 2009 - Global sustainability leader Aveda(TM) today announced it has become the first beauty company in the world and only the second U.S. company in any industry to receive a Cradle to Cradle (C2C) sustainability endorsement, with seven Aveda produ...