Sustainability

Wal-Mart, General Electric, Goldman Sachs and many others have recently adopted aggressive sustainability strategies. Why are the largest, most successful business and financial institutions embracing sustainability? Because it makes good business sense says Frank D...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--Energy Solutions International, the Houston-based leading global supplier of oil and gas pipeline management software, and The Abraham Group, LLC, are pleased to announce that Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham wi...

CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy (NYSE:
GXP), announced today that the first phase of the restoration of a 106-acre tract of wetlands at the Iatan Generating Station will b...

SAN PEDRO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--The Port of Los Angeles has won the District 9 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2006 Pacific Southwest Region Environmental Achievement Award. The award recognizes the Port of Los Angeles for a variety of enviro...

SAN PEDRO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--The Port of Los Angeles, in cooperation with California Marine Affairs and Navigation Conference (CMANC) and Coasts Oceans Ports Rivers Institute (COPRI), will host the first-ever conference on Alternative Maritime P...

There are an overwhelming number of books published on the challenges of running large companies. And while approximately 50% of the U.S. workforce work for large companies (500 workers or more), the other 50% work for or own smaller scale businesses. Ben Cohen (of Be...

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced today
that it has recently received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on
its new AVIVA premium line of intravenous solutions and plans to begin a limited launch of
...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--Washingt...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2006--San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care has appointed Kathleen Pacurar as Vice President of Development. Ms. Pacurar will oversee all fundraising efforts in support of San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care's patient care, ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2006--Kids across America are turning off the lights, shutting off the water and recycling their trash! According to the findings of the "Caring About America" survey conducted on behalf of Doubletree Hotels (NYSE:HLT)...