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Archive for February, 2007

Wal-Mart Delays Responses to Solar-Power Proposals

Wal-Mart Delays Responses to Solar-Power Proposals
Wal-Mart has delayed its response to bids for its solar-power initiative, CNET reports. At the end of last year, the company put out a ...

Honda to Spend $165 Million for Greener Facilities

Honda to Spend $165 Million for Greener Facilities
Honda will spend $165 million by 2009 to make two of its coating facilities in North America more environmentally friendly, helping them ...

Applied Materials Increases Renewable Energy Purchase

Applied Materials Increases Renewable Energy Purchase
Applied Materials says it will purchase 8,220,000 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy annually from wind and solar generation sources in California in lieu ...

Five States Create GHG Reduction Initiative

Five States Create GHG Reduction Initiative
At the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association, the governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington signed an ...

London Plan Would Cut Emissions 60% in 20 Years

London Plan Would Cut Emissions 60% in 20 Years
London has unveiled a plan to cut carbon emissions by 60 percent within 20 years by reducing demand and waste, Reuters ...

RenewComm Launches as Green PR Company

RenewComm Launches as Green PR Company
RenewComm, a full-service public relations, public affairs and advertising agency that has positioned itself to serve the fields of renewable resources, ...

Mattel Joins World Environment Center

Mattel Joins World Environment Center
Mattel has joined the World Environment Center to address such issues as implementing sustainability practices throughout the company’s global supply ...

HP, IBM, Microsoft, Others Launch Hi-Tech Energy Efficiency Initiative

HP, IBM, Microsoft, Others Launch Hi-Tech Energy Efficiency Initiative
Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, AMC, SprayCool, Rackable Systems, VMware, and Sun Microsystems have launched an initiative called ...

Green Marketers Tap Into Social Networking

Green Marketers Tap Into Social Networking
Spreading the word to the global village Online social networking sites may be the ultimate marketing medium for social responsibility causes such ...

Infinity Property & Casualty Joins PHH GreenFleet

Infinity Property & Casualty Joins PHH GreenFleet
Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation has joined the PHH GreenFleet program. This year, Infinity replaced the approximately 400 sport utility vehicles ...

Smithfield Joins CCX, Will Cut Emissions 6% by 2010

Smithfield Joins CCX, Will Cut Emissions 6% by 2010
Smithfield Foods is joining the Chicago Climate Exchange and has committed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by a ...

Honda F1 Sponsors Trade Branding for Green Connection

Honda F1 Sponsors Trade Branding for Green Connection
Honda's formula one team has announced that it will skip sponsorship identification on its cars. Instead, the Honda RA107s will be entirely covered ...

DOE Legislation Would Fast Track Energy Efficiency Standards

DOE Legislation Would Fast Track Energy Efficiency Standards
The U.S. Department of Energy has sent legislation to Congress that would significantly speed up the process to establish energy efficiency ...

TXU Taken Private in Largest-Ever Leveraged Buyout

TXU Taken Private in Largest-Ever Leveraged Buyout
TXU has agreed to be taken private by a group of investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas ...

CSUN Installs 1-Megawatt Fuel-Cell Power Plant

CSUN Installs 1-Megawatt Fuel-Cell Power Plant
California State University at Northridge has received a $2.2 million incentive check from Southern California Gas Co. for what it says is ...

Cleantech Launches Hybrid Taxi Initiative

Cleantech Launches Hybrid Taxi Initiative
The Cleantech Venture Network is working to convert taxis to hybrids - a move that could save $50 billion in fuel ...

Toro to Market Biodiesel Mower

Toro to Market Biodiesel Mower
Toro has developed a biodiesel-powered mower that the company feels will beat the competition to market, Fuel Cell Works reports. In addition,  new diesel-to-biodiesel ...

McDonald Packaging Lighting Retrofit Reduces Power Consumption 24%

McDonald Packaging Lighting Retrofit Reduces Power Consumption 24%
A lighting retrofit project at California-based McDonald Packaging has resulted in a 24 percent reduction in power consumption. According to Don Artaserse, ...

New Leaf Paper Manufactures with 100% Renewable Energy

New Leaf Paper Manufactures with 100% Renewable Energy
All of New Leaf Paper inventory items are now being manufactured with renewable energy, making it the first paper company in the U.S. ...

GE Developing Incandescent Light Bulb That Matches CFL’s Efficiency

GE Developing Incandescent Light Bulb That Matches CFL’s Efficiency
Don't count Thomas Edison out yet. GE says that advancements to the light bulb invented by GE’s founder Thomas Edison could ...

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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