Toyota and Tesla Motors, Inc. (Tesla) confirmed today that their jointly-developed RAV4 electric vehicle will be built at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc. (TMMC) in Woodstock, Ontario beginning in 2012. “The Tesla-Toyota joint development team has agreed that building the vehicle at the Woodstock plant on the same line as the gasoline-powered RAV4, will streamline [...]
Timberland Announces Bolder CSR Goals – $TBL
Company Launches Dynamic, New CSR Communications Portal to Provide Real-Time Content and Discussion Around Social and Environmental Efforts. The Timberland Company (NYSE: TBL), a leading outdoor footwear and apparel company known for its best practices in transparency and accountability, today announced the company’s CSR goals and forward-looking targets, which are positioned to align more strategically [...]
Mohawk Industries Releases Second Annual Sustainability Report
Inspiration is derived from many sources. This year, with the release of its second annual sustainability report, Mohawk Industries highlights its source of inspiration – all the people who make Mohawk successful – while developing a comprehensive report that shows improvement and excellence in nearly every measure of sustainability for 2010.
International Paper Publishes 2010 Sustainability Report
International Paper’s 2010 Sustainability Report is now available to the public at www.internationalpaper.com Highlights of the report include: From 2007 to 2010, International Paper reduced its total energy use by nearly 7 percent – that’s about the same amount of energy needed to power 420,000 homes, or the reduction equivalent of removing one million passenger [...]
Toyota RAV4 EV Coming to Market in 2012
The 2012 RAV4 EV will definitely be sold to the general public. We anticipate robust public interest in the RAV4 EV and are keen to inform consumers that their future vehicle options include a battery electric Toyota.
Siemens Introduces Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
New EV Charging Solution Ready Today for the Car of Tomorrow Siemens Industry, Inc. announced today its new VersiCharge(TM) line of electrical vehicle (EV) charging stations designed for home owners ready to move from the pump to the plug. VersiCharge(TM) EV charging stations will be available through Siemens’ sales channels by the end of the [...]
Seeing Green: Wyndham Measures Investment in Sustainability Programs
Since first establishing its sustainability program in 2006, Wyndham Worldwide, one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, is measuring positive trends in reducing its environmental impact around the globe. The results are reflected in two new sustainability reports released by the company this month.
Neste Oil Expands its Renewable Raw Material Base
Neste Oil will expand the raw material base used to produce NExBTL renewable fuel with jatropha and camelina oils. By introducing these new raw materials in its feedstock base, Neste Oil increases the proportion of non-food materials and raw materials that can be grown on cultivation areas less suited for food plants in its raw [...]
SolarCity Expanding to Hawaii with Cheap $60 Plans
Hawai’i homeowners and businesses, who pay some of the highest electricity rates in the U.S., can now pay less for solar electricity than they currently pay for electricity from the utility grid. SolarCity, Hawai’i’s first full service solar power provider, is now offering one of the most affordable residential solar options on O’ahu, allowing some [...]
GE Helps Canada’s Oil Sands Industry Boost Water Preservation in Alberta – $GE
GE’s Evaporation, Crystallization and Solidification Technologies Will Enable the Blackgold Oil Sands Project to Comply with Environmental Regulations and Reduce Operating Costs. As Canada’s oil sands industry seeks to maximize the role of water recycling to protect local fresh water supplies, GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) has selected GE (NYSE: GE) to supply the [...]
Ingram Micro Further Demonstrates Its Commitment to Social Responsibility by Publishing a Publicly Available Annual Report – $IM
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world’s largest technology distributor and supply-chain services provider, today published its inaugural social responsibility report for 2010, becoming one of the only technology distributors to track and publicly report its sustainability commitment. Using a narrative and quantitative format, the report covers three broad areas highlighting the year’s following achievements: [...]
Volvo Trucks Leads the Charge for Industrial Energy Savings
Volvo Trucks’ New River Valley (NRV) manufacturing plant in Dublin, Va. reduced its energy intensity by nearly 30 percent in just one year, making it the first company to meet a 10-year challenge set by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Save Energy Now LEADER Program in Oct. 2009 [...]
KPMG Achieves 22 Percent Carbon Reduction Through “Living Green”
KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, today announced it achieved a 22 percent carbon reduction over three years from its 2007 baseline target, as part of its plan to improve the environmental performance of its business. The firm also reduced its paper consumption by 33 percent and decreased its emissions from electricity [...]
Dole Launches New Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Website – $DOLE
Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) announced today that it has launched its new Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability website. This tool is now fully integrated into Dole’s corporate website. It also specifically emphasizes Dole’s four pillars of sustainability (Carbon Footprint, Water Management, Soil Conservation and Packaging) in addition to Dole’s environmental and labor practices and [...]
Interface CEO Dan Hendrix Shares Five Sustainability Successes
Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFSIA), is a worldwide leader in design, production and sales of environmentally responsible modular carpet. The company is revealing highlights made over the past year in reducing its own negative impacts on the earth to demonstrate ways other companies can achieve progress toward sustainability. Among the top accomplishments heralded by Interface President [...]
Nokia 2010 Sustainability Report
Espoo, Finland – Nokia has published its 2010 Sustainability Report, which contains information, facts, figures and examples of Nokia’s corporate responsibility and environmental activities in managing its operations and developing mobile solutions. Interview with Stephen Elop President and CEO of Nokia (excerpt from report) Q — What have been the biggest challenges or where has [...]
Owens Corning Issues 2010 Sustainability Report
Company on Track to Meet 2012 Goals, Raises Bar with New Set of 2020 Goals Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) today released its fifth annual Sustainability Report, which outlines the company’s environmental footprint reduction performance relative to seven key aspects of resource consumption, waste and air emissions. The company also announced a new set of 2020 [...]
Ricoh Launches 100 Per Cent Sustainable ‘Eco-Board’ in London
Billboard powered only by wind and solar energy sets a new standard for responsible advertising across the globe Ricoh Company, Ltd. (President and CEO: Shiro Kondo) today announced the completion of an eco-board that will be 100% eco-powered, located on the motorway which runs from London to London Heathrow airport, the gateway to Europe, United [...]
IKEA Has Pulled the Plug — Incandescent lights are out
As of January, 2011, all IKEA US stores stopped stocking and selling Incandescent light bulbs. Ahead of the upcoming legislation – The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that will phase out all incandescent light bulbs by 2012-2014 (2). IKEA has now made these lights a thing of the past. As a result, IKEA [...]
BofA Merrill Lead $2.6 Billion Rooftop Solar Project Across 28 States
Rooftop solar generation takes a giant leap forward as a consortium of leading companies – Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Prologis and NRG Energy – announce an offer of a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to help finance the largest distributed rooftop solar generation project in the world. The [...]
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