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Archive for March, 2007

Survey: Most Companies Can’t Fulfill Sustainability Commitments

Survey: Most Companies Can’t Fulfill Sustainability Commitments
While a majority of North American firms in the survey (almost 60 percent) have a documented corporate-level sustainability strategy, just over one-third ...

REI Releases CSR Report, Hands Brochure Version Out At Stores

REI Releases CSR Report, Hands Brochure Version Out At Stores
Recreational Equipment, Inc. has released its first stewardship report, which provides a review of the co-op's social and environmental priorities and ...

Virgin Blue Launches Voluntary Offset Program for Passengers

Virgin Blue Launches Voluntary Offset Program for Passengers
Virgin Blue has announced a program to offset its greenhouse gas emissions, The Australian reports. It's the first carbon offset program by an ...

EDP Acquires Horizon, Jumps to 4th Largest Wind-Power Producer

EDP Acquires Horizon, Jumps to 4th Largest Wind-Power Producer
EDP-Energias de Portugal SA, the country's biggest electricity utility, is buying Horizon Wind Energy LLC of Houston, Texas from Goldman Sachs Group for $2.15 billion, ...

RV Makers Step Up Green PR

RV Makers Step Up Green PR
Coachmen Industries and Atlas Trailer Coach Products have both released some green PR this week. Coachmen Industries is working with Natural ...

Cummins Approves Use of B20 in Engines

Cummins Approves Use of B20 in Engines
Cummins has approved biodiesel B20 blends for use in its 2002 and later emissions-compliant ISX, ISM, ISL, ISC and ISB engines. ...

Google Offers Free Bikes to Overseas Employees

Google Offers Free Bikes to Overseas Employees
Google is offerring more than 2,000 permanent employees located in Europe, the Middle East and Africa a free bike and encouraging everyone to ...

Eaton Issues First Sustainability Report

Eaton Issues First Sustainability Report
Industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation has issued its first sustainability report as part of the company's 2006 annual report. The short, eight-page sustainability ...

Airbus To Cut Fuel Consumption 50% by 2020

Airbus To Cut Fuel Consumption 50% by 2020
Airbus is targeting a 50 percent reduction in aircraft fuel consumption by 2020, The Australian reports. The manufacturer was looking at ...

LA to Supply Clean Energy to 70,000 Homes

LA to Supply Clean Energy to 70,000 Homes
The LA City Council has approved two agreements that will provide enough renewable energy to power 70,000 homes. These agreements, each of ...

Bigelow Tea Receives $777,000 for Solar Power

Bigelow Tea Receives $777,000 for Solar Power
The Bigelow Tea Company will receive a $777,000 grant from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund to defray approximately 55 percent of the ...

DuPont, Tate & Lyle, Cryotech Launch Renewable Deicing Fluid

DuPont, Tate & Lyle, Cryotech Launch Renewable Deicing Fluid
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, a joint venture between DuPont and Tate & Lyle have partnered with Cryotech Deicing Technology to ...

PG&E, SF Giants Solar Plan Catches Heat

PG&E, SF Giants Solar Plan Catches Heat
A consumer advocate group says that Pacific Gas & Electric's plan to install almost 600 solar panels at the San Francisco ...

Nike Sells Carbon Credits to Entergy

Nike Sells Carbon Credits to Entergy
Nike has sold emission reduction credits totaling 100,000 metric tons to utility company Entergy. Environmental Resources Trust verified and registered the ...

Carl’s Jr. Fuels Arizona Fleet With Waste Vegetable Oil

Carl’s Jr. Fuels Arizona Fleet With Waste Vegetable Oil
MJKL, owner of 52 Carl's Jr. locations in Arizona, plans to convert all corporate fleet vehicles to operate on alternative fuel derived ...

SF Close To Banning Plastic Bags

San Francisco is close to passing a law that would require supermarkets and large drug stores ...

NAM Wants Balance Between Environment & Economic Growth

In comments submitted yesterday to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce regarding climate change policy ...

AEP, St. Lawrence Cement, UTC Lauded for Cutting Emissions

The EPA has commended American Electric Power, St. Lawrence Cement and United Technologies Corp. ...

White House Recognizes “Environmentally Preferable” Computer Manufacturers

White House Recognizes “Environmentally Preferable” Computer Manufacturers
The White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Federal Environmental Executive have released a list of computer manufacturers that make "environmentally preferable computers ...

Microsoft: Vista Can ‘Massively’ Reduce Carbon Emissions

Microsoft: Vista Can ‘Massively’ Reduce Carbon Emissions
Microsoft has commissioned a report which claims the new power-management features in Vista can help companies "massively" reduce carbon emissions resulting from ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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