Archive for February, 2007
Yahoo Develops Web Site for CFL Campaign 18Seconds
Yahoo, Wal-Mart, Environmental Defense, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Energy, along with other private companies and government agencies, has launched a marketing campaign called 18Seconds to ...
Safeway Test-Markets Biodiesel
Safeway has been test-marketing B-20 biodiesel at one of its gas stations in Seattle, AP reports. The company has about 270 gas stations in the U.S. which offering gas discounts for shoppers who have a ...
Sprint Launches Cell Phone Recycling Campaign
Sprint Nextel and Keep America Beautiful are launching Wipe Out Wireless Waste, a campaign starting Mar. 1, during the 2007 Great American Cleanup. More than 1,000 Keep America Beautiful affiliates and participating organizations across all ...
Most Corporate Travel Policies Lack Sustainability Considerations
Most companies do not have sustainable travel considerations written into travel policies, according to a recent survey (PDF) by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and travel technology firm KDS (via the Transnational). The ...
Bridgeport Retrofits 111 School Buses
Bridgeport, Connecticut public school buses will be equipped with devices to reduce diesel emissions. The project involves 111 buses contracted by the city. The program is funded with $534,000 from the settlement of a ...
EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft report that analyzes sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005, will be open for public comment for ...
Imperium Sets Record for Private Equity Biodiesel Investment
Seattle-based biodiesel maker Imperium Renewables' Series B financing round has taken in $214 million, a possible record for the American biodiesel industry, CNET reports. The investment comes from two sources: $113 million of private equity ...
EPA: Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Need to Step Up CFL Recycling Initiatives
The Environmental Protection Agency and some large businesses, including Wal-Mart, are aggressively promoting the sale of compact fluorescent light bulbs. The move is gaining momentum. Recently, California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine introduced legislation to make ...
FedEx Adds Electric Hybrids to Denver Fleet
FedEx Corp. is adding four hybrid electric medium-duty trucks into service in Denver. The company now operates a total 93 hybrid vehicles in cities such as New York, Tampa, Sacramento and Washington, D.C. FedEx says ...
Whole Foods to Acquire Wild Oats
Whole Foods Market has surprised investors by announcing a proposed merger with Wild Oats Markets, a similar though much smaller chain that has also made a name as a major organic food retailer, The ...
SC Johnson Makes Greenlist Available Royalty-Free
SC Johnson is licensing its Greenlist process to other companies royalty-free. Greenlist is an environmental classification system that measures and tracks the performance of environmentally responsible products by classifying raw materials according to their impact on ...
79 Colleges Commit to Lowering Carbon Emissions
Seventy-nine college and university presidents have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, agreeing to cut their institutions' carbon emissions to zero over time, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Colleges that ...
Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan
A group of companies and organizations from around the world, including Allianz, Bayer, Citigroup, DuPont, General Electric, and Volvo have endorsed a post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly ...
Product Design That’s Profitable and Sustainable
Making customer experience a pillar of sustainable profitability is a better alternative than sustainability by enforced abstinence, writes Gianfranco Zaccai, president and CEO of Continuum, in a Businessweek article. In other words, if ...
Alcan CEO Announces New CO2 Emissions Reduction Goal
In a speech at the Canadian Club of Montreal, Dick Evans, Alcan's president and CEO, said, "Today, Alcan is announcing a commitment for a further 10 percent reduction in direct C02 equivalent emissions intensity from ...
GEMI Rolls Out Interactive Sustainable Development Tool
The Global Environmental Management Initiative has released an interactive version of its sustainable development tool, the GEMI SD Planner, as well as a new tool, the GEMI SD Planner Gateway (PDF). GEMI says that user ...
MeadWestvaco Gives $1 Million to Climate Change Policy Partnership
Global packaging company MeadWestvaco has pledged $1 million to support an industry-university collaboration that is working to develop policies to address the problems of global climate change, Duke reports. The Climate Change Policy ...
Group Says UK Emissions Reporting Deceptive, Govt Criticizes Methodology
Almost 200 million tons of CO2 greenhouse gas -? equivalent to around a third of the UK’s currently declared annual emissions -? is missing from the annual reports of major companies operating on the London ...
IKEA to Charge Customers for Plastic Bags
IKEA U.S. will no longer offer customers free plastic bags. Beginning March 15, every plastic bag at every IKEA U.S. store across the nation will cost five cents. IKEA has also lowered the price on ...
Australia Efficiency Standards will Squeeze Out Incandescent Light Bulbs
Australia's environmental minister says the government will use both persuasion and regulation to phase out incandescent light bulbs completely within three years, The New York Times reports. Efficiency standards will be steadily tightened to the point ...
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"This article is wrong. If your PC is less than a few years old,..."
Iain on McD’s in Germany Trades Red for Green In Logo
"Now if only their food was healthy and nutritious."
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Clyde on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
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