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Archive for May, 2007

ExxonMobil Releases CSR Report, Faces Transparency Questions, Again

ExxonMobil Releases CSR Report, Faces Transparency Questions, Again
Exxon Mobil Corporation has released its 2006 Corporate Citizenship Report. According to the report: The company says CO2 emissions were reduced by about ...

Philips Nabs ‘Global Lighting Partner for Live Earth’ Tag

Philips Nabs ‘Global Lighting Partner for Live Earth’ Tag
Live Earth and Royal Philips Electronic have formed a global partnership that enables Philips to join the Live Earth global ...

Real Estate Agents Seek Certification As ‘EcoBrokers’

Real Estate Agents Seek Certification As ‘EcoBrokers’
More than 1,000 real-estate agents have taken a $395 course, offered by John Beldock, director of environmental analysis for the Department of ...

Pfizer, Goldman Sachs Founding Members Of New Sustainable Business Forum

Pfizer, Goldman Sachs Founding Members Of New Sustainable Business Forum
Goldman Sachs and Pfizer are founding members of the Sustainable Business Forum, what Rainforest Alliance, the organization that launched the forum, says is an effort ...

UPS Adds 50 Hybrid Electrics To Fleet

UPS Adds 50 Hybrid Electrics To Fleet
UPS has expanded its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles with the deployment of 50 next-generation hybrid electric delivery trucks. The 50 hybrid electric vehicles ...

Massey Global Warming Proposal Defeated

Massey Global Warming Proposal Defeated
Massey Energy Co. shareholders rejected the proposal that asked the coal company to explain its response to mounting pressure for limits on ...

Stora Enso Adds Third-party Chain-Of-Custody Certifications

Stora Enso Adds Third-party Chain-Of-Custody Certifications
Six of Stora Enso's North American mills have achieved third-party chain-of-custody certifications for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the Program for ...

Bosch Launches Green TV Spots

Bosch Launches Green TV Spots
BSH Home Appliances, is launching the brand's first major push to highlight its environmentally friendly major appliances, MediaPost reports. The ...

Beluga’s SkySail Could Cut Fuel Consumption 30%

Beluga’s SkySail Could Cut Fuel Consumption 30%
German shipping firm Beluga will launch its latest containership with a giant kite that flies 1,000 feet above the bow, Business 2.0 ...

NYC’s Yellow Cabs 100% Green By 2012

NYC’s Yellow Cabs 100% Green By 2012
New York City's entire taxi fleet will be converted to gas-electric hybrids by 2012, CNN reports. Mayor Bloomberg will begin a cycle ...

M&S Plans Eco-Factories, Will Charge For Plastic Bags

M&S Plans Eco-Factories, Will Charge For Plastic Bags
The UK's Marks & Spencer is planning its first eco factories, one in Sri Lanka and two in Wales, that will ...

Intel To Cut Lead From Microprocessors

Intel To Cut Lead From Microprocessors
Intel's future processors, beginning with its entire family of 45 nanometer high-k metal gate processors, are going 100 percent lead-free. Lead is used ...

Survey: Midwesterners Aware of Alt Fuel & Vehicles, Not Much Else

Survey: Midwesterners Aware of Alt Fuel & Vehicles, Not Much Else
Eighty-seven percent of homeowners in the Midwest consider the development of alternative energy products and processes to be very important to critical. However, less ...

Massey Faces Emissions Reporting Resolution

Massey Faces Emissions Reporting Resolution
A group of investors, including the California Public Employees Retirement System, came out in support Monday of a shareholder resolution asking coal ...

Digital Reality Trust Joins Green Grid

Digital Reality Trust Joins Green Grid
Digital Realty Trust, a manager of corporate datacenters and Internet gateways, has joined The Green Grid. As a Contributor Member, ...

BT Cuts CO2 Footprint 15% With Videoconferencing

BT Cuts CO2 Footprint 15% With Videoconferencing
British Telecom claims to have reduced its carbon footprint by 97,000 tons of CO2 per year, that's 15 percent of its CO2 ...

ConocoPhillips Pledges $1 Million To Climate Change Group

ConocoPhillips Pledges $1 Million To Climate Change Group
ConocoPhillips has pledged $1 million to support an industry-university collaboration working to develop policies that address global climate change, according to ...

Verizon Saves $20 Million By Reducing Data Centers

Verizon Saves $20 Million By Reducing Data Centers
By cutting the number of data centers from 10 to 3, Verizon Wireless has saved $20 million, according to a Business Week ...

Denver Considers Carbon Offset Kiosks At DIA

Denver Considers Carbon Offset Kiosks At DIA
Greenprint Denver, a panel of environmental experts put together by the Mayor, is targeting Denver International Airport as a means of ...

FedEx Does ‘Surprisingly Poorly’ On Sustainability Reporting

FedEx Does ‘Surprisingly Poorly’ On Sustainability Reporting
Of the 12 companies in the Fortune Global 500 mail, freight, and shipping sectors whose environmental and sustainability reporting was analyzed (...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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