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FedEx Ramps Up Energy Efficiency Goals
FedEx Express announced this week that its entire vehicle feet is becoming more energy efficient at a faster rate than the company had originally planned.
5 Reasons Why Apple’s CSR Strategy Doesn’t Work
Last week in a very interesting article on HBR Blog, Prof. Gregory Unruh of Harvard offered the explanation that Apple has a reactive CSR strategy, which he described as the "Little Dutch Boy" Strategy. In other words, Apple bothers to act only when there’s a complaint or protest against the company, hoping like the little Dutch boy that poking its fingers in the holes in a dyke will stem the flow and let the company go back to concentrate on designing and selling great products. While Prof. Unruh is certainly right about Apple’s reactive strategy, I believe the CSR problems of Apple go beyond its reactive strategy. Looking at the main issues Apple has been struggling with in the last couple of years, I identified 5 main problems that cause Apple to fail time and again when it comes to CSR
Interview: Ned Tozen, D.Light
D.Light is a company we've covered more than a few times here on 3p. In a nutshell, the company makes inexpensive, durable solar lighting designed for sale in poor off-grid communities around the world. Their product sounds like an easy sell. It lasts a long time, it's clean, and most importantly pays for itself.

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Kids Petition Crayola to Recycle Markers
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Microsoft to go 100 Percent Carbon Neutral
One of the world’s largest corporations is about to make a huge swing toward going green. Just over a month remains for software giant Microsoft to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by July 1. Earlier this month, CEO Kevin Turner posted on...
EcoBorder Turns Old Tires into Landscape Edging
If you toss out an old tire and let it sit in a landfill, in 100 years, it will still look like a tire. No biological organisms are known to be able to break down the durable nature of vulcanized rubber, which is a great thing when the tires are on...
Special Delivery: New Modular Homes Go Anywhere
Written by Matt Hickman, Mother Nature Network There’s a new modern green prefab company on the scene gearing up to produce sleek, factory-built homes that no doubt possess a couple of deceiving, shipping container-ish traits including, most...

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Campus Crest to add solar panels for student housing
Campus Crest Communities Inc. has teamed with SolarCity, a provider of clean-energy products and services, to install more than 9,000 solar panels on its student-housing communities in Greeley, Colo.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; and Las Cruces, N.M. The companies say the project will eventually provide 2.3 million kilowatt-hours of renewable power per year, offset electricity consumption at the communities by about 50 percent and eliminate more than 80 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions annually. “Sustainable...
S. Korea turns to Portland for green city expertise
A high-ranking delegation from the South Korean government was in Portland Thursday to sign a memorandum of understanding with Portland Mayor Sam Adams formalizing a partnership to work together on sustainable city development. As Sustainable Business Oregon reports, the Korean delegation is from the Multifunctional Administrative City Construction Agency, charged with building a new capital city 75 miles south of Seoul.
GDiapers, Keen, New Seasons get kudos for being good
Good magazine released a list of 40 companies that its editors determined are making the world a better place. Portland has three of its companies on the list: gDiapers, Keen Footwear and New Seasons Market. As Sustainable Business Oregon reports, companies were judged based on their core values including diversity, creativity, globalization, social responsibility, sustainability and innovation. The project was sponsored by IBM Corp.

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Monday, 22 August 2011 09:13

The Green Chamber Partners with GoGreen '11 Phoenix

The Green Chamber is proud to announce a partnership with GoGreen '11 Phoenix, a one-day sustainability conference for business in Phoenix on Tuesday, November 15, 2011. GoGreen is built to inspire, educate and motivate business owners and professionals to deepen the commitment to sustainable practices at their organizations. As an action-oriented, collaborative conference, GoGreen '11 Phoenix teaches best practices on how to "green" your business and provides actionable next steps on sustainability for attendees.

Attendees learn from real-world success stories and participate in panel discussions geared to provide solid takeaways to make any size of business the most sustainable that it can be. The GoGreen Conference will feature over 50 business leader speakers and 15 different sessions on how to build sustainability into your business.

Green Chamber members receive a $25 discount when registering with the discount code: PXGCC.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: November 15, 2011

Time: 8:30am-5:00pm - 5:00pm Networking Reception

Place: Phoenix Convention Center

Website: http://phoenix.gogreenconference.net/

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