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09-24-09
UPS Launches Global Initiative To Improve Disaster Response
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative to improve the capabilities of relief organizations to respond to global emergencies.
The effort, which will involve both UPS and The UPS Foundation, begins with a comm...
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09-24-09
Seventh Generation Commits to Sustainable Palm Oil
Seventh Generation, the nation's top brand of family-safe, environmentally healthy household solutions, has announced a commitment to obtain 100% of the palm oil used throughout its product lines from certified sustainable sources by 2012. The company's new initiative will ...
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09-23-09
D.C. Students Take Buddy Bison Along for a Service Project at Meridian Hill Park
National Park Trust (NPT) launched its new Where's Buddy Bison Been?(TM) School Pilot Program at Capital City Public Charter School today, Wednesday, September 23. Two hundred and forty children and faculty attended the launch, which was then follow...
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09-23-09
Caterpillar Inc. Named in Newsweek’s Top 100 Greenest Companies in America
Caterpillar's commitment to align its sustainability efforts with business strategy has earned the company a place on Newsweek's Green Rankings, securing the #73 spot out of 500 companies listed. Caterpillar was named #5 in the Industrial Goods sector. The rankings are based...
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09-23-09
Can Trustmarks Be Trusted? BBMG Report Finds That Very Few Green Certifications Having an Impact
Good Housekeeping now has a green seal of approval. So does UL, the global product safety tester. They join some 400 certifications now vying to validate social and environmental claims on behalf of companies targeting consumers who care about issues like whether a product i...
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09-23-09
Milestone 10th Edition of Bob Willard’s Master Slide Set Is Now Available
Bob Willard is proud to announce the release of the 10th version of his Master Slide Set for sustainability champions. Bob is a speaker and author on sustainability. Based on the audience, he usually selects 30-40 slides from his much larger Master Slide Set. In June 2007, h...
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09-23-09
GMI Announces New Country Rankings for Corporate Governance
GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), the corporate governance research and ratings firm, announced today new country rankings based on overall quality of corporate governance.
GMI publishes research and ratings for 4,207 companies in 45 count...
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09-23-09
Sustainable Business Practice: Process and Implementation
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Wednesday 30th September 2009, 12pm Eastern Standard Time (9am Pacific Daylight Time, 5pm GMT Summer...
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09-23-09
Social Innovation Conference Gathers Great Minds in New York for World-Shaking Change
New York-based company All Day Buffet will assemble the world's most creative entrepreneurs, mavericks and innovators in one room during The Feast Social Innovation Conference on October 1st, 2009.
A creative look at the world's toughest proble...
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09-23-09
PricewaterhouseCoopers Announces Significant Progress in Carbon Reduction Efforts
At the Carbon Disclosure Project event that kicked off Climate Week in New York City, P...
