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Archive for February, 2007

OfficeMax Releases New Paper Procurement Policy, Activists Giddy

OfficeMax Releases New Paper Procurement Policy, Activists Giddy
After a seven-year campaign against it by environmentalist groups, OfficeMax has released a new paper procurement policy that defines performance criteria for ...

Johnson Controls Launches New Renewable Energy Services

Johnson Controls Launches New Renewable Energy Services
Johnson Controls is expanding its business services to include the design, installation and servicing of geothermal, solar, biomass, wind and other ...

Florida School District to Unveil Plug-In Hybrid School Bus

Florida School District to Unveil Plug-In Hybrid School Bus
Florida's Manatee school district will start running two plug-in hybrid school buses from IC Corporation next month, GreenCarCongress reports. The two hybrids ...

EU Backs Plan to Cut CO2 Emissions 20% by 2020

EU Backs Plan to Cut CO2 Emissions 20% by 2020
European ministers plan to cut overall carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent by 2020, adding that they were ready to go to 30 ...

Microsoft: Live Earth Concerts ‘Incredible Opportunity’ for Advertisers

Microsoft: Live Earth Concerts ‘Incredible Opportunity’ for Advertisers
The official announcement for the Live Earth concerts has taken place with the news that MSN Network, in partnership with Kevin Wall, ...

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European Business Leaders: Protecting Environment Top Political Priority

European Business Leaders: Protecting Environment Top Political Priority
European business leaders think that protecting the environment should be the number one priority for global political leaders, placing this policy area ...

Warner Music Announces Environmental Initiatives

Warner Music Announces Environmental Initiatives
WEA, the U.S. sales and distribution company of Warner Music Group, says (via Ecorazzi) that by the end of ...

Continuum Plans Solar Array for Belmar

Continuum Plans Solar Array for Belmar
Continuum Partners, developers of Denver-based Belmar, a mixed-use project that combines retailers, boutiques, restaurants, cafes, theatres, offices, residences, artist studios, parks and ...

Delaware Launches New Energy-Efficiency Incentives for Businesses

Delaware Launches New Energy-Efficiency Incentives for Businesses
The Delaware Energy Office has launched "Energy An$wers for Business," a program that provides financial incentives to install products that save electricity, as ...

GE to Supply 300 Turbines to Noble’s NY Wind Projects

GE to Supply 300 Turbines to Noble’s NY Wind Projects
GE Energy will supply 300 1.5-megawatt wind turbines to Noble Environmental Power. The company will use the new GE ...

NAM Delivers Energy Strategy

NAM Delivers Energy Strategy
The National Association of Manufacturers has unveiled an energy strategy, Energy Security for American Competitiveness, that the organization says is designed ...

McDonald’s VP: Top 10 CSR Strategy Tips

McDonald’s VP: Top 10 CSR Strategy Tips
Bob Langert, Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility at McDonald's has posted his "Top Ten Lessons Learned on CSR Strategy, Partnerships, and Policy ...

CSR Seen As Profitable and Responsible

CSR Seen As Profitable and Responsible
Companies are embracing CSR practices because they believe such strategies can be profitable and socially responsible, according to a story in ...

AMD Report Pegs Global Data Center Energy Costs at $7.2 Billion

AMD Report Pegs Global Data Center Energy Costs at $7.2 Billion
U.S. data centers and their associated infrastructure consumed five million kW of energy in 2005, the equivalent of five 1,000 MW power plants, ...

Los Angeles Ports Issues RFP for LNG Trucks

Los Angeles Ports Issues RFP for LNG Trucks
The nation’s two leading containerports, San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, have issued a joint Request for Proposals ...

Legislation Introduced to Extend Solar Energy Tax Credits

Legislation Introduced to Extend Solar Energy Tax Credits
Senators Gordon Smith (R-OR) and Ken Salazar (D-CO) have introduced legislation that they hope will stimulate investment in solar power. The bill ...

GM, Colorado Partner to Bring E85 Fuel Pumps to State

GM, Colorado Partner to Bring E85 Fuel Pumps to State
General Motors and Governor Bill Ritter's Colorado E85 Coalition have announced plans for the addition of 40 new E85 ethanol fueling locations ...

Sony Electronics to Join Chicago Climate Exchange

Sony Electronics to Join Chicago Climate Exchange
Sony Electronics has committed to joining the Chicago Climate Exchange. Specific committments to CCX were not addressed, but according to the ...

Clean Energy Applications for Federal Loan Guarantees Collect Dust

Clean Energy Applications for Federal Loan Guarantees Collect Dust
The office in the U.S. Department of Energy that opened last summer to provide federal loan guarantees for producing clean energy and ...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Leads 100 Best Corporate Citizens List

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Leads 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
CRO magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens list is led, for the second year in a row, by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Green Mountain ...

Today's News

False Economies

False Economies

Thanks to the sub-prime crisis and issues like the global credit crunch, many economies are in poor shape. Oil prices are continuing ... continue »

‘Shovel Ready’ Stimulus – Projects That Should Be Supported
Going Green Starts with Design
How Business Influences Climate Change Policy
Is The ‘Green’ In Green IT Dead? No, Because It Was Never Really Alive
Retailers Find Environmental Concerns Playing Larger Role In Reputation

Retailers Find Environmental Concerns Playing Larger Role In Reputation

Retailers have entered a new age of corporate citizenship in which not only working conditions but environmental impacts of production and products ...

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LOHAS Consumers Drive Charitable Donations
UN: CDM Increasing Emission-Saving Initiatives, Critics Disagree
CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals
Air New Zealand Completes Flight Powered By Jatropha Biofuel

Air New Zealand Completes Flight Powered By Jatropha Biofuel

Air New Zealand utilized a biofuel blend of 50:50 jatropha and Jet A1 fuel to power one of the Air New Zealand Boeing ...

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Autodesk Green Design Software
Is Sustainability A Fad Or Here To Stay?
China’s Recycling Rate Plummets
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Greenwash Brigade Looks Back At 2008

Green Business 2008 - Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

StubHub To Plant a Tree For Every Ticket Bought For NFL Post-Season

Emissions

Iowa Council Suggests Ways To Cut Emissions 90% By 2050

Dirty Coal A Likely Winner in 2009

Grand Canyon Visitors Center Taps Sun for Power

Hi-Tech

Connecticut DEP To Finalize Details of Statewide ‘E-waste’ Program

Speedy ROI with Quick Green IT Fixes

IT Leaders’ Green-Tech Predictions for 2009

Efficiency

Restaurants To Become ‘Greener,’ Offer More Local Produce In 2009

‘Smaller is Better’ Movement to Progress in 2009

Lenovo Meets, Exceeds EPA Energy Star Criteria Ahead of Deadline

Manufacturing

WSJ Slams Dell Over Carbon Neutral Claim

Product Stewardship Policy Gains Support

Rio Tinto Likely To Receive Free Carbon Permits Worth $462M in 2010

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Japan Airlines Jumps on Carbon Offset Bandwagon

SFO Kiosks To Sell Carbon Offsets

Critics: Bentley’s Plan To Cut CO2 With Ethanol Flawed

CSR Reports

Bombardier Meets 5-Yr Reduction Targets

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals

Sustainable Silicon Valley Members Cut CO2 Emissions 27%

Major Players

McDonald’s To Rollout Energy Efficient Systems

Wind Not Quite Enough to Fill Staples’ Sails

False Economies

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