From the Wires: CSR and Green PR Announcements

Now in its third year, SOCAP 10 is the largest interdisciplinary gathering of individuals and institutions at the intersection of money and meaning. Impact Investors, social entrepreneurs, funders,...

Building on a rich history of environmental action and innovation that includes planting one million trees in China's Horqin Desert, developing the Earthkeepers(TM) line of environmentally-forward...

MEDIA ADVISORY - WHO: Team Depot Volunteers WHAT: September is Celebration of Service month at The Home Depot, and this year's theme is "30 Days of Green." Team Depot volunteers will complete...

ING today announced that it has awarded 60 schools across the U.S. with $2,000 grants to help students combat childhood obesity by getting them more active through school-based running programs....

/PRNewswire/ - Children International, a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization, announces the Aidmatrix Foundation has completed implementation of a web platform enabling the charity to accept...

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and FedEx have announced nine grant awards that will enable urban residents across the country to take action on local environmental challenges....

/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The all-new Ford Focus Electric, which debuts in late 2011 in the U.S. and 2012 in Europe, will be powered by a lithium-ion battery system that utilizes cooled and heated...

/PRNewswire/ - Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, is helping a record number of children return to school...

SRI in the Rockies, the largest and longest-running conference for the sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) industry in the world, has announced the agenda for its 21st annual event. SRI...

Eight years before the New Oxford American Dictionary added the word "locavore" to its pages, Bon Appétit Management Company committed to using local foods on its college, corporate and...

PRNewswire/ -- More than 900 representatives from 215 arts and cultural organizations, which are members of Tessitura Network Inc. (tessituranetwork.com) and license holders of Tessitura software,...

ITT Corporation, in partnership with Mercy Corps, announced today that the company is donating five portable water treatment systems to the Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan in...

Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that more than 300 Advent employees donated time to...

The second annual "Let's Talk... Period" campaign honors and supports September as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Seventh Generation, maker of organic cotton tampons, created "Let's Talk... Period"...

Corporate Express has recently announced two major initiatives designed to encourage and assist Australian businesses to become more environmentally and socially sustainable. Corporate Express'...

In most cases, brands and organizations should have long since crossed the line from needing to point out their green-ness to working to integrate it throughout their operations....

When it comes to a company’s impact on climate change, does directors and officers insurance cover executives? While companies say yes, the insurance industry is saying no. We’re talking...

The company's latest green initiative encourages sellers to reuse shipping boxes made of recycled materials as a way of promoting greener shipping methods....

The company, a subsidiary of utility giant Exelon, launched what it is calling a "Smart Grid Innovation Corridor" in 10 Northern Illinois communities where there are already smart meters...

 Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond the...

Since the first humans carried a torch to provide light, heat has been a by-product of producing light. Traditional electric lights give off more heat than light. But LEDs are twice as efficient as...

Instead of asking how much cap-and-trade will cost, we should be asking how much it saves us. The glacier in the room is that the real costs won't come from cap-and-trade, but from climate...

PACE financing is a potentially revolutionary way to retrofit commercial, residential, and industrial properties with energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program overcomes one of...

The Rainforest Alliance has launched a new certification aimed at helping cattle farms improve their environmental and social performance....

The Federal Trade Commission's forthcoming 'green guides' for making environmental claims promise to shake up how green -- and not-so-green -- products promote themselves. Here are...

Five of the nine members on a panel that reviews chemicals and helped get diesel emissions labeled as toxic have been dismissed. Those that have been hoping to see turnover on the panel say it's...

 U.K. scientists have unveiled a super powder called 'dry water' which could help tackle global warming by storing carbon dioxide....

The InterAcademy Council recommends that IPCC improve review processes and transparency in wake of attacks on climate science....

The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have proposed new fuel economy labels for cars and light trucks that will score each vehicle with a grade...

A blast of cool air far away from the servers in a Savvis data center triggered a hunt for iar leaks and ended with the discovery of $6 million in savings...