Sustainability
Balancing impacts through responsible business practices, supply chains and energy use.
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10-06-08
Orange to Sponsor; Dalibard to Keynote Telepresence-enabled Sustainability Summit '09
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO. - October 6, 2008 - Orange Business Services, a global telecommunications provider present in 220 countries and territories, has joined Sustainability Summit '09 as the conference's inaugural Global Event Sponsor. Sustainability Summit '09, which will...
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10-02-08
PepsiCo Marks Progress Toward Sustainability Goals: Advancing on Water, Electricity and Fuel Conservation Initiatives
PURCHASE, N.Y., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) announced today that it has made significant progress toward its long-term environmental sustainability goals, which include reducing water consumption by 20 percent, electricity consumption by 20 percent a...
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10-02-08
CSRwire Member Spotlight: Equal Exchange
- October 2, 2008 - For more than twenty years Equal Exchange has been a pioneer in redefining corporate structure and in raising awareness of fair trade practices with farmers around the world. As one of oldest thriving cooperatives in America, they are deeply respected not...
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10-02-08
"Unlikely Alliances" Advertising Campaign Wins 2008 EthicMark(R) Award
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10-01-08
World Energy Engineering Congress Offsets Pollution Caused by Event
WASHINGTON, DC. - October 1, 2008 - Leonardo Academy announced today that the World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC) Conference, being held October 1-3 in Washington, DC, has attained Cleaner and Greener(R) certification, meaning pollution contributing to climate ch...
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09-30-08
Sodexo Advances Corporate Citizenship Programs with Expansion of Leadership Team
GAITHERSBURG, Md., September 30, 2008 - Sodexo, a leading food and facilities management services company, has appointed Anthony Owens as senior director of Corporate Citizenship Partnerships and Communications, a move that expands the company's capabilities for sustainabili...
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09-30-08
Global Compact Names New Deputy Director
New York, NY -- 29 September 2008 -- The UN Global Compact Office today announced the appointment of Gavin Power as Deputy Director, effective immediately. Since 2002, Mr. Power has led the development of a number of strategic policy initiatives for the UN Global Compact, in...
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09-30-08
Smurfit-Stone, Advanced Disposal Partner on Jacksonville Recycling Facility Helping Florida Meet Recycling Goals
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, in partnership with Advanced Disposal Services, Inc., today celebrated the grand opening of Smurfit-Stone's Jacksonville-South materials recycling facility (MRF). Now with two recycli...
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09-30-08
Faith-based and Social Investors Praise Wal-Mart's Efforts to Stop Forcing Children to Pick Cotton
NEW YORK CITY/SAN FRANCISCO. - September 30, 2008 "“ Faith"“based and socially responsible investors commend Wal-Mart for taking action to put an end to child labor in Uzbekistan.
Today, Wal-Mart announced that it has "instructed its global sup...
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09-30-08
Wal-Mart Takes Action to End Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan
BENTONVILLE, ARK. - September 30, 2008 - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has instructed its global supply base to cease sourcing cotton and cotton materials from Uzbekistan in an effort to persuade the Uzbek government to end the use of forced child labor in cotton harvesting. ...
