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The Green 11

Some of America's most eco-savvy corporations.

Smokestacks
For all the environmental-speak coming out of American corporations these days, many remain polluters. A look at 10 companies that should be doing better. Read More
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Conglomerates
Primary executive:
Jeffrey R. Immelt,
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A technology, media & financial services company, with products & services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, … View More
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Leisure
Primary executive:
Howard Schultz,
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The Company purchases and roasts whole bean coffees and sells them along with fresh, rich-brewed, Italian style espresso … View More
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Finance
Primary executive:
Edward J. Grzybowski , Chief Investment Officer & Senior Managing Director
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TIAA-CREF, a national financial services organization, is the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, … View More
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Finance
Primary executive:
Kenneth D. Lewis,
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The Company through its subsidiaries, provide banking & nonbanking financial services and products through three business … View More
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Retail
Primary executive:
John P. Mackey,
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The Company and its subsidiaries, owns and operates the chain of natural and organic foods supermarkets. View More
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Retail
Primary executive:
H. Lee Scott, Jr.,
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The Company operates retail stores in various formats, which include: Discount Stores, Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets. View More
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Manufacturing
Primary executive:
Charles O. Holliday, Jr.,
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The Company manufactures products for distribution & sale to different markets, including the transportation, safety & protection, … View More
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Automotive
Primary executive:
Martin Eberhard ,
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Tesla Motors develops and manufactures electric vehicles with exceptional design, performance and efficiency, while conforming … View More
Bank of America
Its internal recycling program saves the equivalent of more than 200,000 trees a year, and it offers employees who buy hybrid cars a $3,000 cash-back incentive.

Ceres
A coalition of investors and public-interest groups, Ceres works to improve corporate disclosure and governance with regard to environmental issues like climate change. Its climate risk program now boasts 60 large investors, including TIAA-CREF.

Dupont

Along with reducing emissions of both greenhouse gases and airborne carcinogens, the company hired a former head of Greenpeace as a consultant.

General Electric
Sales of its Ecomagination products, such as solar panels, topped $12 billion in 2006, and cleanup of its PCB dump in the Hudson River is finally under way.

Innovest
This investment research and advisory firm's Innovest Global 100 rating system is the corporate environmentalist's answer to Moody's or Standard & Poor's.

Organic Valley
One of North America's largest organic-farmer-owned cooperatives, Organic Valley Family of Farms gives its 1,201 member farms direct ownership of a business that saw record growth last year.

Starbucks
Its "bean-to-cup" approach creates eco-accountability at every stage of its supply chain, with recycled-paper sleeves alone saving the equivalent of 78,000 trees in 2006.

Tesla Motors
The Tesla Roadster—the hybrid for the environmentally conscious adrenaline junkie—rips from zero to 60 miles per hour in four seconds without a puff of carbon-dioxide pollution.

Whole Foods
The organic-foods giant was the first major U.S. corporation to purchase enough wind-energy credits to offset 100 percent of its electricity use.

Wal-Mart
The former bane of the green movement now has one of the most ambitious environmental plans of any U.S. company: a proposal to power every store with 100 percent renewable energy.

City of Austin, Texas

The capital of one of the nation's most polluted states, Austin plans to make its operations carbon neutral by 2020.

 



 

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