The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for October, 2006

GE Partnership Aims For Zero Emissions Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus

GE Partnership Aims For Zero Emissions Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus
GE has formed a $13 million research partnership with the Federal Transit Administration, Ballard Power Systems and A123 Systems to develop a ...

Office Depot’s Green Book Hits Europe

Office Depot’s Green Book Hits Europe
Office Depot Inc. has expanded distribution of its b-to-b catalog of environmentally friendly products to five countries in Europe, including Britain, Germany, ...

Public Owners Implement Energy Efficient Designs With LEED Standards

Public Owners Implement Energy Efficient Designs With LEED Standards
According to a new study by construction consulting firm PinnacleOne, almost half (48 percent) of public owners in the United States have ...

Enterprise Pledges $50 Million To Plant 50 Million Trees

Enterprise Pledges $50 Million To Plant 50 Million Trees
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is underwriting the planting of 50 million trees over the next 50 years at a total cost of $50 million ...

Study Provides 5-Step Process for Going Green

Study Provides 5-Step Process for Going Green
A new study, Switching to Green (PDF), from the World Resources Institute outlines a five-step process for office- ...

Companies Set Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals

Companies Set Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals
Thirteen companies are setting new targets for reducing their emissions, which range from nine percent up to net zero. The U.S. Environmental ...

Tool Gives Colleges Environmental Compliance Edge

Colleges and universities nationwide are getting a new learning tool in the form of a compliance assistance center that will help them ...

Google Plans Largest US Corporate Solar Installation

Google Plans Largest US Corporate Solar Installation
I Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, will begin constructing a solar electricity system for Google’s Mountain View, California, ...

SunPower Announces High Power, Higher Efficiency Solar Panel

SunPower Corporation has unveiled its newest solar panel, which it says offers significantly higher power output and conversion efficiency than its ...

Pepco Wins Baltimore City Public Schools Contract

Pepco Wins Baltimore City Public Schools Contract
Pepco Energy Services will provide a comprehensive energy efficiency and guaranteed savings program for the Baltimore City Public School System. Pepco Energy ...

London 2012 Plans Wind Power

London 2012 Plans Wind Power
London 2012’s Olympic Delivery Authority is planning a wind turbine in the Olympic Park to provide renewable energy for the 2012 Games. Standing ...

Sustainable Energy Network Releases Blueprint On Energy

Last week, 145 businesses, environmental organizations, and other groups (representing 37 states) released the “Sustainable Energy Blueprint� - a policy paper that ...

Importance of Energy-Efficient Products Increases in Data Centers

Importance of Energy-Efficient Products Increases in Data Centers
While executives recognize energy-efficiency in the datacenter as a buying priority, a majority of a new reports survey respondents admit they are ...

Awareness Outstrips Corporate Action On Climate Change

Awareness Outstrips Corporate Action On Climate Change
Awareness of the risks and opportunities of climate change has not translated into widespread planning and action by Canada's largest corporations, ...

REI Joins List of Top 20 U.S. Purchasers of Renewable Energy

Recreational Equipment, Inc. and its adventure travel company, REI Adventures, have entered into a partnership with Bonneville Environmental Foundation to compensate for ...

Dept. of Energy Hints at Rolling Back Goals

Dept. of Energy Hints at Rolling Back Goals
The 1992 energy bill set an ambitious goal for alternative fuel use in America: By 2010, thirty percent of all motor fuel ...

energyStudy Looks at Rate Impact of a Renewable Electricity Standard

energyStudy Looks at Rate Impact of a Renewable Electricity Standard
The Indiana Coalition for Renewable Energy and Economic Development (ICREED), a coalition of businesses, elected officials, and clean energy groups, recently ...

Wells Fargo Commits to Largest-Ever U.S. Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy

Wells Fargo Commits to Largest-Ever U.S. Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy
Wells Fargo will buy renewable energy certificates to support generating 550 million kilowatt-hours of wind energy a year for three years, ...

Wisconsin Gov. Unveils $450 Million Public, Private Renewable Energy Investment Strategy

Wisconsin Gov. Unveils $450 Million Public, Private Renewable Energy Investment Strategy
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has proposed a $450 million public/private investment strategy in renewable energy.  The proposal, including nearly $80 million ...

Open Energy Complete 1st Installation of SolarSave Roofing

Open Energy Complete 1st Installation of SolarSave Roofing
Open Energy Corporation, a renewable energy company focused on the design and manufacturing of solar products, has completed the first installation ...

Today's News

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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