2009 Green Ranking of America’s 500 largest corporations

September 24th, 2009 Alex

Newsweek released their 2009 Green Environmental Ranking list of America’s 500 largest corporations. This could be a good list to keep in mind if you want to work for a company that is making a step in being environmental. A lot of companies may talk about it, but looking at this list may help to see how much the companies are actually doing.

It is an interesting list as 4 out of the top 5 are technology companies. Hewlett-Package is number 1 and Dell is number 2. It seems like computer makers are really making an effort to be green in their supply chain management. IBM, also a computer maker is number 5 and Intel,  a CPU manufacturer is number 4. Sadly, Apple is number 133 which was sort of surprising because they like to say they are pretty green. For a company with such a well known brand recognition and with so many Apple products used, you would expect the company to do a little more.

The ranking is done with environmental researchers LDK Research and Analytics, Trucost, and CorporateRegister.com and is based on actual environmental performance, policies, and reputation.

http://greenrankings.newsweek.com/top500

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