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Weary shoppers returned to stores in July as retailers...
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Many retailers are making genuine efforts to define what "green retailing" means and create sustainable green retailing practices, despite being the target...
Aug 13, 2010
Weary shoppers returned to stores in July as retailers were aggressively promoting back-to-school sales. Retail industry sales for July (which exclude automobiles,...
Aug 12, 2010
It wasn’t that long ago that PayPal was viewed as a niche player in the payments industry, used primarily for eBay transactions. However, the most recent survey by...
Aug 09, 2010
ISOs, acquirers, processors and merchants are right to focus on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard...
Aug 09, 2010
Visa Inc. and the National Retail Federation launched a "best practices" information campaign to help merchants safeguard stored card data, mainly by reducing its...
Aug 13, 2010
A nonprofit organization that encourages people across the economic spectrum to explore philanthropic collaborations and consider how they can give a higher proportion...
Aug 11, 2010
Sep 10, 2009
What a green meeting is should be more clearly defined by the end of the year according to Karen Kotowski, COO of the Convention Industry Council (CIC). She told me recently...
Jul 12, 2010
Which materials can be claimed as pre-consumer recycled content -- and which definitely can't?
Debate on the topic is rife within environmental and manufacturing...
Debate on the topic is rife within environmental and manufacturing...
Jul 07, 2010
U.S. bank card delinquencies dipped in the first quarter of this year to the lowest level in eight years, reflecting measured improvement in the overall economy.
Aug 05, 2010
Supermarket chain Hannaford Bros. Inc. stunned the electronic-payments world when it revealed that it had passed its most recent audit for compliance with the Payment...
Aug 08, 2010
While many are seeking to climb the material ladder in life, others have reached the upper rungs and found out it's not all it's cracked up to be; choosing to set a different...
Aug 12, 2010
Apr 16, 2010
Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day and roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper,...
Aug 12, 2010
There’s no denying that managing carbon has become table stakes in today’s business world. Organizations of all shapes and sizes need to manage their carbon footprint...
Feb 01, 2010
Based on online giving to charity, Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass. and Arlington, Va., topped the list as the nation’s most generous large cities based on per capita...
Aug 11, 2010
Fortune 1000 executives and the general public believe just a fraction of businesses are embracing green practices, a new survey found.
Only 29 percent of Fortune...
Only 29 percent of Fortune...
A new trend in charitable giving bypasses traditional donations and gets brands directly involved with those they serve.
In the old model of charitable...
In the old model of charitable...
Jan 19, 2010
The unprecedented success of text-message giving after last week’s earthquake in Haiti is not without potential drawbacks, according to a leading proponent of...
Jan 19, 2010
With more than $220-million in donations so far in response to the Haitian earthquake, Tom Belford, a veteran fund raiser, poses a question on his blog The Agitator: “Can...
Feb 08, 2010
The economy's sluggish growth suggests that American households will give 3.9 percent less to charity in 2010, according to a new projection by two researchers at Boston...
Aug 11, 2010
A perceived lack of information and credible resources are holding U.S. businesses back from becoming environmentally responsible, according to a study from Ipsos Public...
Jul 05, 2010
The Green Spa Network – a nonprofit trade association that promotes the natural connection between personal wellbeing, economic sustainability and the health...
Aug 05, 2009
Now is the time to renew your commitment to green! Earth Day, like New Year’s, is a day people tend to make resolutions—like being more green—but often...
Aug 11, 2010
As millions of birds head for the biggest spill in U.S. history, federal and nonprofit groups work with farmers to create safe alternative habitats.
The BP oil spill...Aug 05, 2010
The U.S. Senate has brought us closer to raising the nutritional quality of school meals and giving kids greater access to physical activity with passage of the Healthy,...
Two key deadlines for merchants accepting VISA cards passed last week (July 1), accompanied by a statement from the card company saying it would "not take a punitive...
The PCI Data Security Council says it has made changes to its standards process that will give merchants, banks and payment processors more time to adjust to new security...
Mar 04, 2009
Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco based on information collected on or before February 23, 2009. This document summarizes comments received from business...
