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Fortune 500 Companies Starting to Offer EV Charging @ Work
Employees could soon find it easy to keep plug-in electric cars charged because 26 major corporations and government entities will offer charging in their parking lots. Last month, 13 major US corporations signed on as charter members to the Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge, which commits them to installing EV charging infrastructure at the workplace. Workplace charging is [...]
Walmart Boosts Solar Production in Ohio
The amount of solar used in Ohio is about to rise by 10% – why? Simply because Walmart is installing solar PV on the roofs of 12 stores in the state. This demonstrates the influence a huge corporation’s shift to renewable energy can have. With 4.5 megawatts of solar, Walmart has about a tenth of [...]
Google’s Renewable Energy Investments Top $1B
Google, a company that has been carbon neutral since 2007, is about to top $1 billion in renewable energy investments. The company is a huge energy consumer; its data centers’ operations use as much energy as nearly a quarter of a million households. But Google is using renewable energy not only to fuel its own [...]
Has Apple Improved their Sustainability Efforts?
With the declining progress of environment in today’s world, many movements enter the scene to prevent it. Manufacturers begin to use eco-friendly materials to produce products that will help save the environment. However, recurring reports are against Apple’s “contribution” to the ecosystem. In the past few years, Apple has been faced with issues regarding the [...]
In Focus: Corporate Sustainability in 2013
Despite ongoing economic difficulties around the globe corporate spending on sustainability is expected to increase in 2013. However, we still have a long way to go before sustainability is where it needs to be to reverse our dangerous trajectory towards runaway climate change. A Verdantix study indicates that corporate spending on sustainability, environmental, and energy [...]
Top 50 Companies: Brandlogic’s 2012 Sustainability Leadership Report
Each year Brandlogic examine 100 prominent global brands for their report. The select group of 16 companies listed below are Leaders that excel in both real sustainability performance and stakeholder perceptions. Six Challengers from 2011 are new to the Leaders list. In 2011, Brandlogic introduced a powerful new tool for sustainability and communications executives called [...]
Green Product Line Launched by Walgreens
Walgreens, the largest US drugstore chain, is launching its own private label green products line that spans more than two dozen personal care products and household cleaners. Its Ology line includes baby lotions, adult shampoo and conditioners, dish detergent, fabric softener, glass cleaner, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and “tree-free” tissues, paper towels and copy paper. Dubbed as the first nationally accessible and affordable brand formulated [...]
Walmart Announces Additional Sustainability Index Initiatives
Last month we reported that Walmart would evaluate its buyers on the sustainable products they purchase as part of their annual performance review, in an effort to get more of those products to store shelves. Now, Walmart has kicked that up a notch. At an event in Beijing, the company announced more initiatives that will green its supply chain [...]
Walmart’s China Supply Chain: Getting A Sustainable Facelift
One of the world’s largest corporations has announced a series of initiatives to make the company’s supply chain a bit more sustainable, particularly in China. At an event in Beijing, Walmart said that it will use the Sustainability Index to design more sustainable products, make its global supply chain more socially and environmentally accountable, and [...]