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Archive for November, 2006

State & Local Governments Test Plug-in Cars

State & Local Governments Test Plug-in Cars
State and local governments are testing hybrid electric-gas vehicles that recharge from a wall socket for their car and bus fleets, CNET ...

SunEdison CEO: ‘Pent Up Demand’ for Solar Services

SunEdison CEO: ‘Pent Up Demand’ for Solar Services
SunEdison CEO Jigar Shah said the company succeeds because it delivers a full-range of services including financing, installation, and maintenance. "I’ve never been ...

Super Bowl, Olympics Offset Carbon Emissions

Super Bowl, Olympics Offset Carbon Emissions
Large sporting events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, and World Cup, have been making and fulfilling promises to offset the damage to the environment ...

‘Smart Cooling’ System from HP Unveiled

‘Smart Cooling’ System from HP Unveiled
Hewlett-Packard has announced a new energy management system, dubbed HP Dynamic Smart Cooling, that's designed to deliver 20 to 45 percent savings ...

Build Green School & Save $100,000 Per Year

Build Green School & Save $100,000 Per Year
Greening America's Schools, a report from consulting firm Capital E, finds that building green would save an average school $100,000 each year ...

TechVision21: Billions in Federal Alt Energy Funding

TechVision21: Billions in Federal Alt Energy Funding
Speaking before the Electric Drive Transportation Association on Tuesday, TechVision21 CEO Kelly Carnes outlined the billions of dollars in federal ...

Dairy has Largest Private Biodiesel Fleet in New England

Dairy has Largest Private Biodiesel Fleet in New England
Maine's Oakhurst Dairy is transitioning 130 delivery trucks, or more than 90 percent of its fleet, to biodiesel fuel. The switch, which ...

Energy Firms Anticipate New Emissions Regulations

Energy Firms Anticipate New Emissions Regulations
Top executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal regulation ...

Holiday Push Begins for Carbon Offset Companies

Holiday Push Begins for Carbon Offset Companies
Green Mountain Energy, which launched a new carbon offset purchase site two weeks ago called BeGreenNow, has begun its holiday push with ...

Xerox Invents ‘Erasable Paper’

Xerox Invents ‘Erasable Paper’
Xerox has invented a way to make "erasable paper" whose printed text or images last only a day -  so that ...

Green Building’s Bottom Line Comes into Focus

Green Building’s Bottom Line Comes into Focus
A new white paper from Building Design and Construction (via Jetson Green) reviews the financial and economic dimensions of green building ...

Ethical Companies Make More Money

Ethical Companies Make More Money
An index of companies deemed ethical, including Intel, Starbucks, The Timberland Company and Whole Foods Market, has outperformed the S&P 500 by more ...

New SmartWay Loan for Trucking Companies

New SmartWay Loan for Trucking Companies
A new loan initiative for small trucking companies will help pay for fuel-saving technologies. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is partnering with ...

IRS Approves 610 CREBs Applications

IRS Approves 610 CREBs Applications
Last week, the IRS announced that 610 projects have been given the authority to issue Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, New Rules ...

IBM to Launch Green Tech Business Unit

IBM to Launch Green Tech Business Unit
IBM will launch a new business unit in 2007 that will focus on environmental technologies, the Associated Press reports. The unit will get ...

California Selects APX for WREGIS

California Selects APX for WREGIS
The California Energy Commission has signed a multi-year agreement with APX Environmental Registry & Banking for its Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System ...

Wal-Mart Makes ‘Climate Project’ Donation and Peddles Gore’s Book

Wal-Mart Makes ‘Climate Project’ Donation and Peddles Gore’s Book
Wal-Mart has made a $75,000 donation to The Climate Project, founded by Al Gore, to support of its mission to educate ...

Sun’s Douglas Discusses BlackBox

Sun’s Douglas Discusses BlackBox
David Douglas, vice president for eco-responsibility at Sun Microsystems Inc., spoke with The Boston Globe recently about energy efficiency and Sun's ...

Saks Saves with Green Christmas Windows

Saks Saves with Green Christmas Windows
Saks Fifth Avenue's famous Christmas windows have received a green upgrade.  The department store's "snowflake spectacle" light show has 40,400 newly upgraded ...

Williams-Sonoma Catalogs to Receive FSC Certification

Williams-Sonoma Catalogs to Receive FSC Certification
Williams-Sonoma has begun sourcing more than 90% of the paper used in the company’s seven catalogs (Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Bed and ...

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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