Archive for March, 2007
Recent CSR Reports
March 2007 >>REI >>ABN AMRO >>Bradford & Bingley >>Akzo Nobel >>Adidas >>Starbucks >>Henkel >>Phillips >>Procter & Gamble Feb 2007 >>Sun >>Danske Bank >>Mitsubishi >>Toyota >>Scotts >>Johnson Controls >>Forest Products Association of Canada >>Boeing >>Casio >>Kawasaki Heavy Industries >>Capita ...
Green Decisions: Weighing Today’s Bottom Line Against Future Rewards
Frank Gillett, a principal analyst at Forrester Research, says that admirable as HP, IBM, and other companies' purported green aspirations might be, he's generally still not seeing a lot of clear forward thinking nor environmental ...
Colleges Develop Green Tech Programs to Meet Demand
More U.S. college students are looking into careers in alternative energy, leading U.S. universities to add new courses on clean energy technologies and the environment, MSNBC reports. The number of Berkeley undergraduates enrolled in introductory ...
American Orders Fuel Efficient 737s
American Airlines will buy 47 Boeing 737 jets four years earlier than planned to begin replacing some of its oldest planes with more fuel-efficient ones, the Chicago Tribune reports.American said it will get the 737-800 ...
Green Resort Opens, Two More in Works
Wen-I Chang hopes to build a series of resorts that will blend environmental consciousness with the creature comforts consumers have come to expect, CNET reports. Introductory rates at his new hotel, the Gaia ...
Fed Partnership Cuts Manufacturers Energy Consumption
The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute for Science and Technology have created a partnership to help small and mid-sized manufacturers reduce energy consumption. DOE’s university-based Industrial Assessment Centers ...
CA City Launches Electric Vehicle Pilot Program with ZAP
The City of Richmond, California and Bay Area electric car company ZAP are launching a pilot fleet program to demonstrate ZAP electric trucks in a city fleet, the first fleet in the country to incorporate ...
Telus, CVS, UNICCO Among CSR Award Winners
CVS, Telus, Nike, Newlink Communications and Timberland were among the twelve corporations that took home PR News awards for outstanding Corporate Social Responsibility. Winners were awarded in a dozen categories critical to CSR success, from Branding ...
Corporations Find It Hard To Impress Green Bloggers
Lloyd Alter, a blogger at Treehugger, says he first began using the term "greenwashing" about two years ago when he was upset about a campaign that Ford Motor Company was having for a new hybrid ...
Travel Toolkit Outlines Corporate CSR Success Stories
The Institute of Travel Management has launched a Environmental Impact Reduction Toolkit, part of ITM’s CSR initiative Project ICARUS, launched at the end of 2006. The new toolkit contains corporate case studies highlighting successes in the ...
Etheco Passes Green Power Commission to Customers
In what the company describes as an industry first, the UK's Etheco is paying people to use green energy, passing all commission back to users in a bid to get them to trade up to greener ...
Northern Trust Saves Energy with VFDs
A project Honeywell completed at Northern Trust's Chicago headquarters that involved installing more than 40 varibale frequency drives onto air-handling motors in the building is saving Northern Trust approximately $10,000 in energy costs each month during the ...
HP to Reduce Energy Use 20 Percent by 2010
Hewlett-Packard has set a goal to reduce its global energy use by 20 percent by 2010. To accomplish this reduction below 2005 levels, HP says it will deliver energy-efficient products and services to customers ...
Cost Savings, Not Environment, Top Motivation for Buying Green Home
Sixty-three percent of homeowners report lower operating and maintenance costs as the key motivation behind buying a green home, according to research sponsored by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders. Nearly 50 ...
House Passes Emissions Legislation for Shipping
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation to to curb emissions from ships using diesel fuel, ABC News reports. Under the House bill, the U.S. Coast Guard and EPA would be given the authority to ...
Virgin Trains Launches Green Marketing Blitz
Virgin Trains this week kicks off a £3.5m marketing campaign to tell potential passengers that Pendolino trains are at least four times less polluting than cars or planes, Transport Briefing reports. As part ...
IT Departments Must Reduce, Replace & Reuse
IT departments must exploit technology in a commercially productive way for the benefit of the entire business, and in a sustainable way for the benefit of the environment, according to an article in IT-Director ...
Carmanah’s Solar Power Systems Head to U.S. Base in Kuwait
A U.S. army base in Kuwait has ordered 39 of Carmanah's stand-alone MAPPS solar power systems. They will be used by a defense contractor to power radio-frequency identification readers to track inventory at the base. ...
Recent RFPs
March 2007 (via CEEP) Rural Housing Economic Development Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Healthy Homes and Lead Technical Studies Healthy Homes Lead Hazard Control Program Lead Outreach Program Conservation Innovation Grants – New Jersey, Utah and ...
Recent Incentives
March 2007 (via DSIRE) Financial Incentives Arizona APS - Energy Efficiency Solutions for Business Trico Electric Cooperative - SunWatts Incentive Program Tucson - Permit Fee Credit for Solar Energy Systems California Santa Monica - Expedited Permitting for Green ...
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Comments and Discussions
Jetset1 on Energy-Savings Claims Don’t Add Up for Microsoft’s Windows 7
"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."
Phil on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
"After reading all the comments it seems obvious, to me, that the individuals populating..."
Marc Hudson on McD’s in Germany Trades Red for Green In Logo
"where will the stone be mined from- under what labor rights conditions? Will the..."
Clyde on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
"This just shows all the Global Warming freaks out there are a bunch of criminals cut from..."
Car Rental Singapore on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"Energy reduction is a good thing. We need to save the..."
Meme Mine on WWF, WRI Make Last-Minute Pitches on Climate Change
"To the voting public, what the scientists say is irrelevant anymore for if you read..."