Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, with 81 stores in North America, has diverted 16 million pounds of waste from entering landfills. The company’s CEO, Neil Goldberg, recognized their trucks were returning empty after delivery and decided to renovate one of their 41,000 square foot buildings into a recycling center. Cardboard, Styrofoam, pastics, and mixed office paper from their stores and offices are recycled to create new consumer products by other manufacturers.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers won “Innovation of the Year” at the CeBIT computer trade show for their invention of the world’s first zero-watt monitor. All current computer monitors consume a minimal amount of power when placed on stand-by or idle mode. Fujitsu’s zero-watt monitor has a two-position relay switch. When the computer subsides the relay switches to off position, then when the computer signal returns low currents from the computer have sufficient power to turn the monitor on again.

The Natural Resources Defense Council is helping companies go green with their ‘Greening Advisor’. This on-line resource guide provides companies with the information required to reduce their environmental impact.