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For years, distribution centers were built outside urban centers. But concerns about fuel and energy costs are prompting firms to rethink that strategy. Steven E. Campbell of AMB Property Corporation talks about industrial infills as a solution.
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Corporate Reporting
Corporate reporting comes in a variety of forms, and with a wide range of names: environmental reports, sustainability reports, social responsibility reports, citizenship reports, and others. In most cases, corporate environmental reports of all kinds serve an important function: in addition to informing the public, corporate reporting can be most valuable to the company itself, requiring it to bring together information and data that can increase overall understanding of the company's operation.
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There’s a fair bit of cynicism out there about Product (Red), the celebrity-inspired idea that we can help poor victims of AIDS in Africa by going shopping.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Eighty-six percent of companies on the Standard and Poors 100 Index have corporate sustainability websites, compared to 58 percent in 2005. Roughly half produced a sustainability report last year, 26 percent higher than the 39 companies that issued one two years before.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The number of people concerned about climate change continues growing, but they aren't convinced that the business sector is doing as much as it should because companies are failing to adequately communicate their climate change-related efforts, according to a new study.
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CLAREMONT, Calif. -- The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College studied the ways in which public California companies used their web pages to communicate their environmental and social efforts.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer and printer manufacturer Lexmark have published reports looking at their achievements in the past year on environmental issues.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- HSBC takes a closer look at what it accomplished in the past year, and what its future sustainability plans are.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Pharmacy retailer CVS Caremark plans to phase out toxic chemicals from its house-branded products in favor of safer alternatives. The company detailed the new policy in its first Corporate Social Responsibility report that was released earlier this week. The policy was formally adopted earlier this year.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Dow's project, lauded as the best of the year by crisis-management software company ESS and BNP Media, saved the company more than $2 million by using IT to streamline and improve the accuracy of its reporting processes.
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BOSTON, Mass. -- Ceres and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants recognized Ford and Timberland as top sustainability reporters in their annual competition that judges transparency in corporate environmental and social reporting.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Business intelligence software developer SAS has releases SAS for Sustainability Management to help companies better understand their current and future environmental impact.
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DETROIT, Mich. -- Bowing to pressure from a bloc of shareholders, Ford has become the first automaker to detail its strategy to reduce its fleet's greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Just a few months shy of its first birthday, the Climate Registry released the methodology that will guide how its members will report greenhouse gas emissions.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Portfolio magazine makes its own list of the top ten most toxic U.S. corporations, judging them on pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and the contents of their products.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- CRO Magazine revamped the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list to put more weight on performance related to climate change and the environment.
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