One of the places that was the city of Portsmouth. However, Timberland will stay and work with their current building and try to update their facilities. The company has been located in Stratham for about 15 years.

Originally founded in Boston in 1952, Timberland is mostly known for their boots. Known as Timmies, Timbs or Timbos, Timberland boots have been extremely popular for more than a decade. While they are useful when outdoors and when hiking, their boots are also popular in modern urban culture and fashion.

Around the world, Timberland has nearly 3,500 employees.

Timberland Boots (Image: Flickr)

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Timberland Decides to Stay Put

Lisa Jackson, Image: Newscom

The Business Coalition for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) announced today that three new members would be joining this organization, which was started four months ago by Ceres. Joining founding companies Timberland, Nike, Sun Microsystems, Starbucks, and Levi Strauss are Gap, eBay, and Symantec.

The new members were introduced at a business breakfast and policy forum, hosted by Ceres at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. The group hopes that by joining forces, they’ll have a louder voice in calling for strong U.S. climate and energy policies over the next year. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson opened the forum today, saying,

“Leadership from the business community is essential to our success in protecting human health and the environment. BICEP is pioneering change, and proving every day that the environmentally sound thing to do is also the economically sound thing to do. We are here to partner with you so that we can lay the foundations for that change together, and bring our shared vision to life.”

Some of the goals of the coalition are to help pass legislation consistent with key principals, which include:

• Setting aggressive GHG reduction levels
• Establishing a economic cap-and-trade system that auctions off all carbon allowances
• Doubling the historic rate of energy efficiency improvement
• Creating green-collar jobs
• Adopting renewable energy standards

Founder Ceres is a coalition of investors, environmental groups, and organizes that works to address global climate change.

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BICEP Adds Three New Members

Hirshberg uses his 25 years’ experience growing Stonyfield Farm as well as the examples of like-minded companies, such as Newman’s Own, Patagonia, Wal-Mart and Timberland, to illustrate how business and the environment can benefit each other.

An inspiring book for business owners and managers as well as anyone interested in saving the environment, Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World demonstrates how companies can work to save the planet, while achieving greater profits and satisfaction, and how we can all use the power of conscious consumption to encourage green corporate behavior.

Available at Amazon Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World

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Stirring it Up With Stonyfield CE-Yo

• Green Power Partner of the Year: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves through their purchase, leadership, overall strategy, and impact on the green power market.
• On-site Generation: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, including, but not limited to, solar photovoltaic (PV) or wind energy projects.
• Green Power Purchase: Recognizes Partners who distinguish themselves through purchases of green power from a utility green-pricing program, a competitive green marketer, or a renewable energy certificate (REC) supplier.

EPA recognized 17 leaders in 2007:

whose combined commitments of these organizations amount to nearly four billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, which is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power nearly 250,000 average American households each year. EPA also estimates that the combined environmental impact of these purchasers will avoid the equivalent amount of CO2 emissions of nearly 450,000 vehicles each year.

Among the winners: Timberland, New York University and Starbucks. You can check out all the winners, EPA has all the details and a video about some of the companies at EPA Green Power Leadership Awards

Via EL

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EPA Green Power Leadership Awards

Shopsmart has picked Ben & Jerry’s, yum, for the company’s continuing support of local community projects and manufacturing methods which focus on reducing waste and carbon dioxide.

Also, Clif Bar for being certified organic and taking its packaging seriously with recycled content and no shrink-wrap. And Stonyfield Farms, one of my favorite companies, for their tasty 100% organic yogurt that supports family farm operations. Stonyfield is also big on the recycling with big results.

Burt’s Bees, Seventh Generation, Tom’s of Maine, IKEA, Patagonia and Timberland also made the top 10. In checking out this list, I realized that most of the companies are located or originated in the Northeastern US. I always have this back and forth in my mind about which coast is greener and I usually underestimate the East Coast. I don’t know why. But I like these kind of reminders that there are green companies all over.

Did any of your favorite companies make the list?

Via Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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Consumer Reports ‘Shop Smart’ Picks Top Companies for Social, Environment