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Pink Announces Their List of The Top Women in Sustainability

By Tracey de Morsella on January 26, 2011 4 Comments 2011, 5 Women to Watch, Aflac, Alison Taylor, Betsy Holland, Brigitta Witt, Britta Gross, Calvert Investments, Citi Foundation, Citigroup, CitiGroup Senior Leadership Committee, cleantech, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, corporate social, CSR, Dell, Elizabeth Johnson, Ernst & Young, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, good governance, green building, Hyatt, Ingrid Saunders Jones, Intel Corporation, Jane Connell, Johnson & Johnson, Kathryn Brown, Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, KPMG, Leisha John, Lorie Wigle, Mary Wenzel, Pam Flaherty, Pat Rayl, PINK, responsibility, Siemens, socially responsible investment, solar;, Susan Cischke, sustainability, The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Turner Broadcasting, Verizon, Wells Fargo, wind, women, women in sustainability, Women's History Month

Last year, during Women’s History Month, we published, our list of the top women in sustainability. This week, PINK released their list of the top women in sustainability for 2011. These are women who they see as pioneers who are employing cutting-edge best practices to lead the movement for corporate responsibility and sustainability

100 Private Companies That Lead in GoingGreen

By Tracey de Morsella on October 8, 2009 2 Comments 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, AlwaysOn, AquaCritox, battery manufacturing, Best Early Venture Award, biodiesel, BioFuelBox, Biofuels Digest, biomass, biorefineries, biorefinery, Biotech and Agriculture, Bridge Bank, BrightSource, CA, Calera, California, cement, clean energy, Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year Competition, Clean Manufacturing and Clean Products, coal, Coda, Coda Automotive, Colorado, desalination, Edison, Editor’s Choice Award for Most Revolutionary Technology, electricity, energy efficiency, Energy Innovator Award, Energy Management, Energy Storage System, FOG, Global Cleantech 100 list, GoingGreen, GoingGreen 100, GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009, Goodwin Procter, Green Automobiles & Transportation, Green Buildings & Green Nano/Micro-Tech, Green Materials, Green Rankings, greenhouse gas emissions. GHG, HelioVolt, Houston, innovation, KPMG, Lakewood, Los Gatos, low-speed vehicles, MA, MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation, Manatt, Marin Soljačić, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Menlo Park, Morgan Stanley, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Newsweek, Next Energy Innovators, NREL, Porous Power, Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, Resource Recovery & Waste Management, Revolution Partners, San Jose, Santa Monica, sewage sludge while concurrently producing energy with the extracted wastes. The Ireland-based firm as a, Silicon Valley Bank, smart grid, solar energy, solar panels, solar thermal processes, sustainability, The Artimis Project, turbine engine, TX, ultra-thin lithium batteries, US Department of Energy, wastewater, Water Technology & Treatment, Watertown, wet waste, Wilson Heat Exchanger, Wilson TurboPower, wireless, WiTricity, Woburn, Zeachem

The AlwaysOn Network recently announced their Third Annual List of the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009. The award recognizes the top private greentech companies that are creating new business opportunities and transforming the world’s largest industries to improve sustainability.Among the hundreds of companies evaluated, They selected the Oakland California-based, Brightsource Energy, a provider of solar energy to utility companies, as the overall winner.

The Best Climate Change Consulting Firms – Who are They?

By Tracey de Morsella on July 23, 2009 4 Comments audit firms, BCG, Blu Skye, Booz & Company, Boston Consulting Group, CH2M Hill, change agenda, change programs, chemicals, cleantech, Climate Change, climate change policy, climate change strategy, consulting market, cost reduction, David Metcalfe, Deloitte, energy demands, energy efficiency, ENVIRON, ERM, Ernst & Young, financial performance, gas, green programs, Green Quadrant, GreenOrder, ICF International, IT advisors, KPMG, market demand, McKinsey & Company, metals, mining, Notably Bain & Company, Obama, opportunity identification, PA Consulting Group and PwC, power generation, professional services, Shaw Group, sustainability, sustainability credentials, US climate change consulting market, Verdantix

In the US market demand for advice on climate change and sustainability is growing due to a dramatic shift in US climate change policy, the cost reduction potential of “green” programs and competitive pressure to implement a climate change strategy. Consulting firms that fail to establish their climate change expertise during 2009 will miss out on the biggest opportunity in the consulting market for 20 years, according to independent research conducted by Verdantix. The ground-breaking analysis of the US climate change consulting market applies 56 evaluation criteria to assess 19 consulting and professional services firms including BCG, Booz & Company, CH2M Hill, ENVIRON, ERM, Ernst & Young, ICF International, McKinsey & Company, PA Consulting Group and PwC.

ComputerWorld Announces List of Top Green-IT Departments and Green-IT Vendors

By Tracey de Morsella on May 4, 2009 Comments Off on ComputerWorld Announces List of Top Green-IT Departments and Green-IT Vendors absorption chillers, Allstate, Aplicor, Applied Materials, Austin Energy, BT Group, Burt's Bees, capital savings, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon footprints, carbon impact, carbon offset, centralize, Citigroup, Compellent Technologies, compression, ComputerWorld, consolidating, convert, cooling demands, copper consumption, Data Center, data de-duplication, data network, data recovery, DC power, de-duplication, decommission server, e-waste, EAM, eco-friendly, electric grid, electronics recycling, emissions, EMS, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, energy use, Entrust, Environmental Management System, EPEAT Gold certified, flat-screen, Fujitsu America, green, Green Computing, Green-e, Green-IT, Green-IT Vendors, greenhouse gases, Hewlett-Packard, hot/cold aisle isolation, IBM, incentives, Infor Enterprise Asset Management, intelligent power management, IT chargeback costs, KPMG, LCD monitors, LEED-certified, Linux-based mainframes, Living Green, MAID storage, Marriot, massive array of idle disks, Mohawk Fine Papers, monitor energy use, multicore, Office Depot, peak energy efficiency, power, power demands, power usage, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, recycle, recycling, renewable energy, sensors, server consolidation, servers, Seventh Generation, socially responsible, State of Indiana, State Street, sustainability, temperature, Terremark, thin clients, thin provisioning, videoconferencing, virtual server, virtualized, virtualizing, VoIP, water use, wind

For the second year in a row, ComputerWorld has showcased the achievements at 12 IT departments that are reducing power demands and using technology to create energy efficiencies. Thirty criteria were used to determine which organizations had the greenest IT departments. The IT departments selected include: Mohawk Fine Papers, State Street, Allstate, Citigroup, PricewaterhouseCoopers, State of Indiana, KPMG, Seventh Generation, Office Depot, Burt’s Bees, Marriot and Austin Energy. Find out why these organizations were selected.