The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for December, 2006

$1 Million Available for NYC Buildings that Switch to CFLs

$1 Million Available for NYC Buildings that Switch to CFLs
Public Energy Solutions has launched Operation Kill-A-Watt in New York after being contracted by Con Edison to manage its targeted load ...

GE Selling Hydro Business to PGC

GE Selling Hydro Business to PGC
GE Energy plans to sell its hydro business to Pescarmona Group of Companies. The sale includes GE Energy’s worldwide hydro business, excluding ...

BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant

BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant
BHEL has bagged another major order from Indian Oil Corporation for setting up an energy efficient co-generation power plant at its ...

Mercedes-Benz Pays $1.2 Million for Clean Air Act Violation, Spends $59 Million on Recall

Mercedes-Benz Pays $1.2 Million for Clean Air Act Violation, Spends $59 Million on Recall
Mercedes-Benz will pay $1.2 million in civil penalties as part of a settlement because it failed to promptly notify EPA about air pollution ...

Golf Course Upgrades Could Yield 30% Energy Savings

Golf Course Upgrades Could Yield 30% Energy Savings
A three-year pilot project now underway in Southern California hopes to show that by upgrading irrigation systems, golf facility operators can reduce ...

New York State Evaluating PHEV Technology

New York State Evaluating PHEV Technology
The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority has awarded A123Systems, a developer of nanophosphate-based batteries, and Hymotion ...

Boston to Require LEED Standards

Boston to Require LEED Standards
Boston plans to amend its building code to require that all new private construction of at least 50,000 square feet must meet ...

GHG Certification Standard Out for Stakeholder Comment

GHG Certification Standard Out for Stakeholder Comment
The new Green-e Greenhouse Gas Product Certification Standard is now out for stakeholder comment. The Center for Resource Solutions is ...

Constellation Energy Wins Wind Power Agreement With WSSC

Constellation Energy Wins Wind Power Agreement With WSSC
Constellation Energy has inked a 10-year contract to provide wind power to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. The 10-year agreement ...

NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant

NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant
NRG Energy received a conditional contract from the New York Power Authority to build a 680 net megawatt Integrated Gasification ...

Poultry Industry Evaluates Solar for Growout Houses

Poultry Industry Evaluates Solar for Growout Houses
WorldWater & Power will build a $500,000 PV system to power Allen Family Foods' poultry growout house in Laurel, Delaware. Growout ...

Constellation NewEnergy Sends RECs with Holiday Cards

Constellation NewEnergy Sends RECs with Holiday Cards
Here's a marketing idea that's hard to beat. Constellation NewEnergy, which has helped many of its customers incorporate renewable energy solutions ...

EU Rethinks Airline Emissions Trading, Throws U.S. a Bone

EU Rethinks Airline Emissions Trading, Throws U.S. a Bone
The European Commission is scaling back its aviation emissions plan and considering a two-year grace period, until 2013, for foreign airlines before ...

Palo Alto Named Green Power Community

Palo Alto Named Green Power Community
Palo Alto is the first city in California, and the fourth city in the country, to be certified as a Green ...

News Roundup: Enel, Verdiem, Timberland, ConocoPhillips…

News Roundup: Enel, Verdiem, Timberland, ConocoPhillips…
Enel Picks Fusina for Site of Hydrogen Power Plant Enel has chosen Fusino as the site for the world's first hydrogen Power ...

300 Computer Products Meet EPEAT Standard

300 Computer Products Meet EPEAT Standard
Nine manufacturers are participating in EPEAT, the EPA-funded green computer standard released in July. More than 300 computers are now registered. The ...

Mass. to Retrofit 8400 Diesel Buses by 2010

Mass. to Retrofit 8400 Diesel Buses by 2010
Massachusetts will spend (PDF) $22.5 million to retrofit 8400 public school and regional transit buses by 2010. The deal is designed ...

UK’s Biggest Grocer to Run Biodiesel Fleet

UK’s Biggest Grocer to Run Biodiesel Fleet
Starting in January, Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, will run 75 percent of its delivery fleet on biodiesel, BBC News reports.  Tesco, ...

Corning Cuts Lighting Costs 40%

Corning Cuts Lighting Costs 40%
High-efficiency fluorescent lamps chosen by Corning Inc. for its Kennebunk, Maine factory combined with other improvements, have cut electricity use for lighting ...

Solar Entech Readies Power Conditioning Software

Solar Entech Readies Power Conditioning Software
Solar EnerTech says it is looking forward to the sales and marketing boost it will get from the one-year extension of ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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