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Archive for April, 2007

Verizon Launches Tree-Planting Program, Adds Hybrids to Fleet

Verizon Launches Tree-Planting Program, Adds Hybrids to Fleet
Verizon has launched a business tree-planting program to encourage large-business customers to sign up for paper-free billing. It's also adding 100 ...

Groups Say Walt Disney Can Do More Green Cleaning

Groups Say Walt Disney Can Do More Green Cleaning
Environmental Groups, including The Center for Health, Environment and Justice and the Florida Alliance for Healthy Indoor Environments, has begun a campaign to ...

Nissan Ties Corporate Citizenship to Brand Positioning

Nissan Ties Corporate Citizenship to Brand Positioning
Nissan has launched a plan to create its own global corporate citizenship programs, publicize them through marketing channels and move away ...

Bon Appetit Management Tracks Carbon Cost of Food

Bon Appetit Management Tracks Carbon Cost of Food
Bon Appetit Management Company, the food service used by many universities and corporations including Washington University, Nordstrom and Target, is introducing ...

Ecolab Releases 2006 Sustainability Report

Ecolab Releases 2006 Sustainability Report
Ecolab has published its 2006 Sustainability Report. According to Ecolab, 2006 highlights include: Research and development from solid formulations to packaging and ...

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AASHE Releases Guide On Funding Campus Sustainability Projects

AASHE Releases Guide On Funding Campus Sustainability Projects
AASHE has released a new guide, Creating a Campus Sustainability Revolving Loan Fund: A Guide for Students (PDF), which explains ...

SustainLane Launches User-Generated Review Site

SustainLane Launches User-Generated Review Site
San Francisco startup SustainLane, which initially focused on developing a database of government sustainability policies and practices, launched a user-generated review ...

Xerox Touts Energy Efficient Products

Xerox Touts Energy Efficient Products
Xerox says that half of the company’s office and production product offerings meet the EPA's new Energy Star requirements that went into effect on ...

Ben & Jerry’s Launches Campaign With Green Energy Provider

Ben & Jerry’s Launches Campaign With Green Energy Provider
Ben & Jerry's has launched a marketing campaign with Ecotricity, a UK green electricity company, to motivate people to ...

Premier Launches Green Best Practices Web Site

Premier Launches Green Best Practices Web Site
The Premier Safety Institute has launched, Green Corner, a Website that showcases hospital and supplier success stories on green initiatives. "'Green Corner' provides ...

L.A. Considers Plastic Bag Ban

L.A. Considers Plastic Bag Ban
Los Angeles County officials are considering a ban on plastic grocery bags, the LA Times reports. The Board of Supervisors has ...

SCE Plans Customer-Funded $22 Million CFL Giveaway

SCE Plans Customer-Funded $22 Million CFL Giveaway
Southern California Edison is asking state regulators for authorization to provide 1 million low-income households with a set of six compact ...

Cisco, Novell, Texas Instruments, Others Join Green Grid

Cisco, Novell, Texas Instruments, Others Join Green Grid
The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, has announced a ...

BJ’s Installs Solar Power Systems

BJ’s Installs Solar Power Systems
BJ's Wholesale Club has installed solar power systems on the rooftops of two Connecticut BJ's Wholesale Clubs, The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund reports ...

NY Times Gets Plug-In Hybrid

NY Times Gets Plug-In Hybrid
The New York Times will receive the first medium-duty plug-in hybrid vehicle on the East Coast as part of a commercial fleet performance ...

AIG Joins USCAP, Launches Alternative Energy Risk Practice

AIG Joins USCAP, Launches Alternative Energy Risk Practice
AIG has joined the United States Climate Action Partnership. "As the first insurer to join USCAP, AIG can help shape ...

D.R. Horton, Toll Brothers, Others Expand Climate-Related Reporting

D.R. Horton, Toll Brothers, Others Expand Climate-Related Reporting
D.R. Horton, Toll Brothers, Costco, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide have agreed to expand disclosure of their strategies and performance in energy efficiency and ...

EPA Finalizes Renewable Fuel Standard

EPA Finalizes Renewable Fuel Standard
The Environmental Protection Agency has established a  Renewable Fuel Standard program. Authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the RFS program ...

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program
ConocoPhillips  is supporting a mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cap and has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership - a ...

NYC to Cut Emissions 30% by 2030

NYC to Cut Emissions 30% by 2030
New York City officials are promising to cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030, Reuters reports. In 2005, the city ...

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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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