Archive for January, 2007
NFL Plants Trees, Buys RECs & Feels Heat
The National Football League is planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida in an effort to tackle the the Super Bowl's greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters reports. In addition to the tree planting, Sterling Planet ...
Legislation Would Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs, Favor CFLs
California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine is expected to introduce legislation this week to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs, Reuters reports (via GrooveyGreen). The "How Many Legislators Does it Take to ...
Ricoh Launches Tree Planting Offset Program
Ricoh UK has joined the growing list of companies implementing tree growing initiatives by offering its customers the opportunity to plant fruit trees in a bid to offset carbon emissions. The printer manufacturer is working ...
London Suburb’s Parking Fees Based on CO2 Emissions
Officials in Richmond, a London suburb with few provate garages and driveways, are basing annual parking fees on how much carbon dioxide a car emits, AP reports. The biggest polluters will pay $590 a year for ...
Survey: Microsoft has Best Corporate Reputation
Microsoft is the company with the best corporate reputation, according to Harris Interactive's Reputation Quotient survey, USA Today reports. Microsoft's leadership and financial results, as well as Bill Gates' philanthropic activities, earned ...
HelioVolt, Exeltech Collaborate on CIGS-Enabled Solar Energy Systems
HelioVolt and Exeltech are collaborating to provide turnkey systems for solar energy generation. The collaboration will draw on HelioVolt’s FASST technology for rapid CIGS thin-film production and Exeltech’s core competencies in high performance AC power ...
Canada’s Environment Commissioner Fired, Too Environmental
Canada's federal environment commissioner Johanne Gelinas, the country's top ranking environment offical, has been fired, Maclean's reports. Sources said auditor general Sheila Fraser felt Gelinas was taking too much of an advocacy role rather than monitoring ...
GSA Awards $29 Million ESPC to Honeywell for FDA Project
The U.S. General Services Administration is spending nearly $30 Million to upgrade building systems and reduce energy costs at the new Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. The upgrades at ...
Green Party Warns of Vista ‘Landfill Effect’
The UK's Green Party claims Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites, Silicon reports. The Green Party's warning ...
San Jose Switches 5,600 Traffic Signals to LED
New LEDs have replaced incandescent bulbs at thousands of traffic signals in San Jose, California making the lights burn brighter, last longer and cost far less to power, the Mercury News reports. The city ...
Kodak Joins Chicago Climate Exchange
Kodak has commited to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2003-2008 time period. From 2003 to 2005, Kodak reduced these emissions 10 percent. The release states that Kodak has joined CCX for the 2003-2006 Phase I period of ...
BMW Eliminates Manufacturing Waste Water
BMW is using a new recycling process that treats all manufacturing waste water and feeds it back into the production system. The system is being used in its engine plant in Steyr, Austria for ...
Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions
Less than half of all listed global electric utilities have responded to an investors request for information regarding their emissions of greenhouse gases, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project's Global Electric Utilities report (PDF). ...
Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power List
For the first time, a corporation leads EPA's national Top 25 list of green power purchasers. Wells Fargo & Company claimed the top spot, purchasing 550 million kilowatt hours annually. Organizations that purchase electricity ...
Vattenfall, Alcan, Duke Energy, IETA Push for Global Emissions Trading Market
Vattenfall AB, Alcan Inc., Duke Energy Corporation and the International Emissions Trading Association are cooperating to work with other leading industries and financial institutions to accelerate carbon trading as a key ...
Santa Cruz Hotels Make Move to Solar Energy
Three Santa Cruz, California hotels are installing solar systems, Renewable Energy Access reports. A 22kW system installed on the Sunset Inn is up and running, and the Best Western Inn (20kW) and Best Western ...
Mayors Ask for $4 Billion Energy & Environmental Block Grant
The nation's mayors have called for $4 billion in a Energy and Environmental Block Grant to help cities combat global warming. The announcement was made at the Winter Meeting of The U.S. Conference of ...
Sun to Release First Corporate Social Responsibility Report Today
Sun Microsystems plans to release its first corporate social responsibility report today, according to a blog post by Marcy Scott Lynn, corporate social responsibility program manager at Sun. Lynn says that Sun will not put ...
Portfolio 21: Vestas Wind Systems Top Green Company of 2006
Portfolio 21 has released its Top 10 financial performers among companies implementing environmental business strategies. The top performers in the fund posted returns ranging from 41 percent to 131 percent in 2006. The fund identifies companies ...
Scotts Publishes First Corporate Responsibility Report
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company recently published its first Corporate Responsibility Report. “ScottsMiracle-Gro must set the tone for corporate responsibility and how businesses can make a difference in our communities and for the environment,” said Jim ...
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