What are big businesses doing to go green?

• Procter & Gamble
  
  • Some packaging for products from its Pantene, Covergirl, and Max Factor brands will be changed to sugarcane-based plastic packaging and will be on shelves next year.
    
• Timberland
  
  • Timberland's Green Index will be expanded to include every pair of footwear products by the end of 2012.
    
  • The Green Index is a 3 year old program that outlines the environmental footprint of the product on the consumer-facing label.
    
  • This Program is currently used on 14% of the company's footwear.
    
• Ecovative Design
  
  • Currently makes the products "EcoCradle" and Greensulate insulation.
    
  • This is packaging material made from agricultural waste and mushroom roots.
    
  • This product uses 2.5% of the energy it normally takes to make foam.
    
• Maines Paper and Food Service
  
  • Retrofitted their headquarters with an advanced system from Digital Lumens, Intelligent Lighting System.
    
  • The system has LED-based luminary that uses computers to integrate system-wide or by individual fixture.
    
  • Cut energy used for lighting by almost 90 percent in just a few months.