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11-20-09
The Levi's(R) Brand Announces charity: water as $100,000 Green Charity Winner
The Levi's® brand is proud to announce charity: water as the winning charity of its recent GO IV Fortune $100,000 green charity giveaway. Beginning in mid-October, GO IV Fortune players nominated hundreds of charitable organizations with a commitment to sust...
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11-05-09
Kijiji Joins Forces With The eBay Green Team On re+purpose Campaign
Kijiji.com, eBay's free, local, family-friendly classified site, today announced a partnership with the eBay Green Team in the third and final phase of its six-week "re+purpose" campaign. From November 4-19 at www.ebay....
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11-04-09
The Levi's(R) Brand to Make $100,000 Donation to Green Pioneer of America's Choice
The Levi's® brand is proud to announce that it will match its $100,000 Grayson Ozias IV Fortune Challenge giveaway with a $100,000 donation to a "green" charitable organization. Over the past several weeks, GO IV Fortune gamers nominated hundreds of organizations with a comm...
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10-26-09
CVS/pharmacy Rewards Shoppers For Passing on Plastic Bags
According to The Wall Street Journal, approximately 100 billion plastic shopping bags are used in the U.S. each year, and only roughly one to three percent of those bags are recycled. To encourage shoppers to cut down on the use of single-use plastic bags, CVS/pharm...
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10-21-09
Levi's(R) and Goodwill(R) Partner to Launch a "Care Tag For Our Planet"
Levi Strauss & Co. and Goodwill® today announced A Care Tag for Our Planet, a new initiative that aims to put billions of pounds of unwanted clothing to good use instead of into landfill. Beginning in January 2010, the Levi's® brand will be the first major retai...
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10-19-09
The Co-operative Group publishes 2008/09 Sustainability Report
The Co-operative Group - one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives and one of the UK’s most diverse businesses - today launches its online 2008/09 Sustainability Report at www.co-operative.coop/sustainabilityre...
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10-05-09
Office Depot (NYSE:ODP) publishes 2009 Corporate Citizenship Report
Office Depot, a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced the release of its 2009 Corporate Citizenship Report. The report, which highlights the Company’s commitment to diversity, environmental sustainability, community and ethics around the world for the 2008 c...
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10-05-09
Levi Strauss Foundation Donates US $100,000 in Humanitarian Grants to Help Victims in the Philippines and Indonesia
The Levi Strauss Foundation today announced that it will donate a total of $100,000 toward emergency relief efforts to help flood and earthquake victims in Indonesia and the Philippines.
The Foundation will provide a $50,000 grant to Oxfam Amer...
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10-01-09
CVS Caremark Launches Distribution of $3 million in Free Seasonal Flu Shot Vouchers to the Unemployed
With the unemployment rate currently at the highest in over two decades, CVS Caremark today announced it has begun to provide 100,000 free seasonal flu shots to the unemployed as part of its efforts to help keep Americans healthy this flu season. The initiative kicks off tod...
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09-02-09
eBay Teams with Community of 88 Million Users to Create Positive Social Change
eBay, the world's leading online marketplace, today announced the launch of the eBay Give. Good. Green. campaign, a social-media focused initiative designed to inspire their community of 88 million buyers and sellers - and any individual that is inspired to join - to make a ...
