Archive for February, 2007
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 RFP to solar electric suppliers soliciting bids on what could amount to a solar installation on ...
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 comply with U.S. air pollution regulations, Forbes reports. Production lines at the company's Marysville ...
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 of energy from nonrenewable sources. The annual amount represents approximately 12 percent of ...
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 agreement to develop a regional target for reducing greenhouse gases within the next six ...
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 reports. London’s 7.5 million people will be urged to turn off televisions and lights, ...
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, green technology, clean energy, air and water, conservation and efficiency, and sustainable development ...
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 chain. “We believe our participation with the World Environment Center will further extend our ...
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 The Green Grid that aims to develop standards, measurement methods, processes and technologies ...
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 as sustainability and world issues like genocide, according to the Marketing & ...
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 in its fleet with more fuel efficient Jeep Compasses. By making this change, ...
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 minimum of six percent by year 2010 in absolute terms. As a result of various energy ...
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 by artwork depicting the planet earth, as part of a strategy to give ...
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 standards. The proposed legislation requests authority to use a more streamlined rulemaking process for ...
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 Pacific Group for $45 billion in what would be the largest leveraged buyout ...
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 the installation of the single largest fuel-cell power plant at any university ...
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 costs over a decade, Red Herring reports (via The Energy Blog). The ...
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 conversion kits that range from about $30 to $500 will be available in ...
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, vice president and chief financial officer at McDonald Packaging, the result was close ...
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. to do so, the company reports. New Leaf Paper inventory products being manufactured with ...
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 potentially elevate the energy efficiency of this 125-year-old technology to levels comparable to ...
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Tom Stacy on National Grid Again Rejects High Costs of Offshore Wind
"Each time government entices big money investment away from riskier, but clearly..."
miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
"Yet another example of the potential of combined heat & power to transform..."
Stevenson on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"All of us should think of ways to save energy now. It is not a myth,..."
Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."
Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."
peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."
Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."