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Archive for February, 2007

Yahoo Develops Web Site for CFL Campaign 18Seconds

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 ...

Safeway Test-Markets Biodiesel

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 ...

Sprint Launches Cell Phone Recycling Campaign

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 ...

Most Corporate Travel Policies Lack Sustainability Considerations

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 ...

Bridgeport Retrofits 111 School Buses

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 ...

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EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory

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. ...

Imperium Sets Record for Private Equity Biodiesel Investment

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, ...

EPA: Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Need to Step Up CFL Recycling Initiatives

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 ...

FedEx Adds Electric Hybrids to Denver Fleet

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 ...

Whole Foods to Acquire Wild Oats

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 ...

SC Johnson Makes Greenlist Available Royalty-Free

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 ...

79 Colleges Commit to Lowering Carbon Emissions

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 ...

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan

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 ...

Product Design That’s Profitable and Sustainable

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 ...

Alcan CEO Announces New CO2 Emissions Reduction Goal

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 ...

GEMI Rolls Out Interactive Sustainable Development Tool

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 ...

MeadWestvaco Gives $1 Million to Climate Change Policy Partnership

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 ...

Group Says UK Emissions Reporting Deceptive, Govt Criticizes Methodology

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 -? ...

IKEA to Charge Customers for Plastic Bags

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 ...

Australia Efficiency Standards will Squeeze Out Incandescent Light Bulbs

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 ...

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The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ... continue »

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities
Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue ...

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$5.2 Billion Invested in Cleantech Since January 2007
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

As the world looks for ways to counter climate change and reduce the carbon footprint, the most abundant energy source might be ...

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Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Payless ShoeSource Launching Eco-Friendly Footwear

Emissions

DHL: Carbon Neutral Supply Chains Possible, Takes Time

Dairy’s Carbon Footprint Drops to 12 Pounds Per Gallon

Toyota Announces Utah’s First LEED-certified Dealership

Hi-Tech

Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Efficiency

California Tops ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Coffee Bean Opens LEED-Certified Facility in Portland

Applied Materials Unveils 2 Megawatt Solar System

Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Financial Crisis Threatens EU’s Carbon Plans

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

Gap Flips Switch On 1 Megawatt Solar Power System

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

PR Agency Warned Starbucks About Wasteful Water Policy

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

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