Tag: Sustainable Business
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Levi Strauss Furthers Commitment to Sustainability With Responsible Sourcing Process
Though Paul Dillinger knew he wanted to work in the fashion industry nearly 30 years ago when he was a teenager, he believes the industry needs more focus on sustainability. “The fashion cycle that seeks to reinvent itself every six months? It doesn’t ask, ‘How do we improve the lives of the people we touch?'”…
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3 Tech Companies Using Renewables to Combat Data Center Energy Crisis
It takes a lot of energy to enable web users to stream videos, downloads books and other online activities—about the same amount it would take to power 30 nuclear power plants. Data centers around the world use about 30 gigawatts, or 30 billion watts of electricity, according to Green House Data. U.S. data centers account…
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Rethinking the Role of Business in Solving Environmental Problems
By Mindy Lubber [caption id="attachment_310193" align="alignright" width="300"]Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] In 2012, when the Obama Administration sought to raise average fuel economy standards, something unexpected happened. The “Big Three” automakers—General Motors, Chrysler and Ford—backed the effort. For decades, every attempt to raise fuel economy standards had been met with stiff opposition from automakers who argued…
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UPS Launches Navigation System to Reduce Emissions
UPS announced a plan this week to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save fuel during the busy holiday season and beyond. The company will roll out the On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation (ORION) software with hopes of optimizing 10,000 delivery routes by the end of the year, reducing miles driven and reinforcing the Atlanta, GA-based firm’s…
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Energy Efficiency Firms Lead ‘Global Cleantech 100′ List
Peter Miller The new Global Cleantech 100 list of private companies breaking barriers with their clean technology ideas and executions across the worldwide economy finds that energy efficiency companies not only continue to dominate the list, but are growing in influence. For the past five years, the Cleantech Group has published an inventory of 100 companies it believes are most…