January, 2007
HP Recycling Up 16%
HP recycled more than 164 million pounds of hardware and HP print cartridges globally in its 2006 fiscal year -? an increase of 16 percent over the previous year and, according to HP (...
‘Think Green Champions’ Help Toyota Reach Zero Waste to Landfill
Toyota Motor Sales' recycling program, Think Green!, has reached its goal of zero waste to landfill.
The TMS headquarters in Torrance, California has 5,000 employees, business partners and visitors in 15 buildings each day.
Through a ...
NADA Challenges Dealerships to Cut Energy Use by 10%
Pavilion Study: Drivers Lack Basic Understanding of Biofuel
WEF to Use DHL’s GoGreen Shipping at Annual Meeting
DHL's new carbon neutral shipping service, GoGreen, will get global exposure at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. All participants at the annual meeting in Davos can ship event materials without causing ...
Tax Abatement Prompts More Casinos to Bet on LEED
With 18 million square feet of building space, MGM Mirage's planned CityCenter in Las Vegas, a $7 Billion project, will be the largest LEED-certified structure in the U.S. to date, the Las Vegas Sun ...
TerraPass, Karcher, Sam’s Club Market Product with Carbon Offsets Included
TerraPass has announced (via EarthTimes) the first-ever product available in a U.S. retail store that comes with two years worth of carbon offsets.
A partnership between Karcher USA, Sam's Club and TerraPass ...
Princess Cruises to Use Shore Power at Port of Los Angeles
MIT Panel: Geothermal Could Answer Electricity Needs
Mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth’s hard rock crust could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the U.S. will need in the future, probably at ...
Canada Maps Out 3 Parts of $1.5 Billion ecoEnergy Funding
Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has announced more than $1.5 billion in funding for its ecoENERGY Renewable Initiative to boost Canada’s renewable energy supplies.
The first component of the initiative, ecoENERGY for Renewable Power, will invest $1.48 ...
Lime Energy Reduces Modell’s Energy Consumption 17%
Modell's Sporting Goods has installed Lime Energy's equiptment monitor and control system on the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems at all of its 132 stores in 11 states. The chain wide installation included ...
GE, DuPont, Alcoa & More Form U.S. Climate Action Partnership
Wal-Mart Opens First ‘High-Efficiency’ Store
Wal-Mart is opening its first high-efficiency store that the retailer says will use 20 percent less energy than one of its typical supercenters.
In 2005, Wal-Mart opened two experimental stores in McKinney, Texas, and Aurora, ...
Feinstein’s Cap-and-Trade Bill Gets Energy Company Endorsements
At a news conference Wednesday, six major energy companies announced their endorsement of legislation sponsored by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to establish a national program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity ...
Flying Carbon Neutral on Company Jets Costs Less Than You Think
So what's the carbon cost of flying company execs on private jets? Helium report, with the help of Terrapass, calculated the cost to offset carbon dioxide emissions when flying in a private jet.
It costs less ...
Deloitte: Make Green Choices Now for Future Success
Tesco USA to Install $13 Million Solar Roof
Tesco, the fourth-largest retail chain in the world, is installing a $13 million solar roof on its five-building, 820,400-square-foot distribution center under construction in Riverside.
"We believe this will be the largest roof-mounted solar installation ...
Deleware Residents Strongly Support Offshore Wind Power
Delaware residents strongly favor offshore wind power as a future source of energy for the state, according to a survey conducted by University of Delaware researchers.
The results are highlighted in an interim report released by ...
PG&E’s Darbee Provides ‘Blueprint’ to Head Off Dangers of Global Warming
College’s Methane-Fueled Power Plant Gets Low Marks
Troy, New York-based Hudson Valley Comunity College's methane-fueled power plant, designed and installed by Siemens Building Technologies in 2004 at a cost of $8.4 million, is not providing the amount of power the ...
Kimberly-Clark Sustainability Report: 99.9% of Virgin Fiber From Certified Sources
