By Matthew J. Schiltz A decade ago there were some predictions that there would be less usage of paper ultimately leading to a paperless society. Contrary to those predictions, computers, printers, fax machines and other information technologies have created an increased demand for paper for printing photos, recipes, school work, Web pages – and business [...]

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PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Alcoa Foundation have announced support for Brad Pitt’s “Make It Right” (MIR) project to build green affordable housing on a large scale to help victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. An Alcoa Foundation grant of $150,000 was made to the Make It Right project today. The MIR project – [...]

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Available to Southern California Policyholders Affected by Devastating Wildfires; First-Ever “Green” Upgrade Offered to Homeowners in the U.S. NOVATO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As a result of the extraordinary wildfires in the past two weeks, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company is responding with an innovative green upgrade for impacted policyholders. Fireman’s Fund® will rebuild its Prestige® Premier policyholders’ homes [...]

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Steelcase, Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of office environment solutions, is deploying the OptiLedge from OptiLogistics, Inc., marketer of innovative transport packaging systems, to ship selected furniture products to dealers and direct customers from its plant here. The move to the OptiLedge, which was tested for several months, is providing [...]

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Strategy Mirrors Edisonian Belief in Creating Products Directly Aligned With Customer Needs, Driving Innovative, Energy-Efficient and Cleaner Technology Across Company Today GE (NYSE: GE) announced that it will invest more than $1 billion on cleaner technology research and development (R&D) for 2007, drawing closer to its pledge to invest $1.5 billion annually on ecomagination R&D [...]

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Curtis Packaging announced today that they are the first 100% carbon neutral printing and packaging company in North America.

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Consulting company Sustainable Research Group hopes to help others focus on sustainability. special to green@work Many observers have said that a new economy has begun to emerge with a new breed of business to drive it—firms whose value is based on their intellectual capital and their keen sensitivity to the newest opportunities and trends. Companies [...]

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