Sept. 5, 2008 - Caterpillar plans to serve the fast-growing Asian mining sector with a new LEED-certified facility in Singapore that remanufactures old equipment parts into new products.

Aug. 28, 2008 - Microsoft has implemented a new recycling program at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters that the computer giant says has already cut the campus's waste by 50%.

Aug. 28, 2008 - Colleges and universities are trialling an innovative green strategy that may be coming to a company cafeteria near you - banning food-service trays to cut waste and energy consumption, Daily Illini reports.

Aug. 26, 2008 - Coca-Cola's recycling arm plans to "close the loop" at this year's Democratic and Republican National Conventions, recycling of 100% materials sold at both events and turning the recovered plastic and aluminum into new Coke bottles and cans, BrandWeek reports.

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July 25, 2008 - Sainsbury's expects to save more than 500,000 rolls of receipt paper this year thanks to new printers that use both sides of the roll.

July 23, 2008 - Healthcare executives place a higher priority on energy efficiency than executives in other industries, planning more facility upgrades over the next year than any other sector, according to a pair of new studies from Johnson Controls.

July 2, 2008 - Wal-Mart has pledged to buy more of its produce from local farmers in a bid to cut shipping costs and support local economies.

May 28, 2008 - Ecomagination, GE's $20 billion initiative to develop new environmental products and services, is generating so much business that the company has upped its revenue goals for the program. GE has also committed to using its own Ecomagination products to slash companywide fresh water use 20% by 2012.

May 27, 2008 - Intel has beaten its 2007 waste-recycling goal by ten points, achieving an 80% recycling rate for solid and chemical waste from its manufacturing operations, according to the chip maker's latest sustainability report.

May 19, 2008 - Avis Rent A Car says it will switch to an electronic format for customer brochures and other marketing materials in an effort to cut costs and save paper.

May 7, 2008 - Global conglomerate Colgate-Palmolive is reporting steady declines in energy and water use per ton of product over the past ten years, despite a 62% spike in sales over the same period, according to the company's latest sustainability report.

April 30, 2008 - Waste Management has announced plans to power its California trash-collection fleet with cleaner-burning fuel made from landfill gas, Reuters reports.

April 15, 2008 - Nike has completed the first phase of an energy-efficiency project aimed at boosting energy efficiency among its footwear suppliers in Southeast Asia. The sports-apparel giant is working with four supplier factories in China and Vietnam to find out how much energy each factory consumes and identify the biggest opportunities to reduce or optimize energy use.

April 15, 2008 - Nearly three-quarters (72%) of businesses say they are paying more attention to building energy efficiency than they were just a year ago, according to Johnson Controls' second-annual Energy Efficiency Indicator survey. But the percentage of companies expecting to add energy-efficiency upgrades to planned capital investments over the next year has remained flat.