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Archive for May, 2007

Care2.Com Expands Offerings, Draws Advertisers

Care2.Com Expands Offerings, Draws Advertisers
Consumer green site Care2.com, which the company says has 7 million members, has expanded its community offerings, MediaPost reports. Care2 GreenLiving, a ...

Exelon Reduces Electricity Use 43%

Exelon Reduces Electricity Use 43%
Chicago utility Exelon Corp. consolidated its downtown Chicago locations into one suburban location and modernized existing space to conform to U.S. Green Building ...

Starbucks & Global Green USA Team Up On Green Auction

Starbucks & Global Green USA Team Up On Green Auction
The green umbrellas you see outside Starbucks stores are getting even greener this summer. The coffee-maker is launching a Green Umbrellas for ...

Bush Orders Feds To Regulate Vehicle Emissions

Bush Orders Feds To Regulate Vehicle Emissions
Bush has signed an executive order directing the departments of Transportation, Agriculture and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency to craft regulations that ...

ColdWatt’s High-Efficiency Power Supplies Turn IT Heads

ColdWatt’s High-Efficiency Power Supplies Turn IT Heads
Replacing your existing power supplies with more efficient alternatives from ColdWatt could save $50,000 a year for a 400-server datacenter, ...

ADVERTISERS

Jenn-Air, Kohler, Trex, Among Sponsors Of Cooking Light’s Green Abode

Jenn-Air, Kohler, Trex, Among Sponsors Of Cooking Light’s Green Abode
Cooking Light magazine has announced the national sponsors of its FitHouse in Chicago.  The energy efficient FitHouse will be one of ...

EPA Wants Help Encouraging Self-Disclosed Environmental Violations

EPA Wants Help Encouraging Self-Disclosed Environmental Violations
The EPA is seeking comments on how a policy that offers reduced penalties to companies for self-disclosing environmental violations should apply to the ...

Total Releases 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Total Releases 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Total has released the 2006 corporate social responsibility report. The report includes information on ISO 14001 certification for Total's main production sites, the company's ...

PBS To Air Weekly ‘Building Green’ Series

PBS To Air Weekly ‘Building Green’ Series
PBS is set to air Building Green, a 13-episode series about eco-friendly building techniques and alternatives. PBS affiliate stations across the country will begin ...

Measuring The Impact Of Climate Change On Corporate Performance

Measuring The Impact Of Climate Change On Corporate Performance
A Merrill Lynch report, Combating Climate Change -? Opportunities and Risks, has put forward the idea of measuring how much revenue or ...

Search Wars Take On Green Hue With Launch Of New Yahoo Site

Search Wars Take On Green Hue With Launch Of New Yahoo Site
Yahoo has introduced Yahoo Green today, an online education program that will offer users the latest environmental news and consumer tips, Reuters ...

JPMorgan Launches Climate Change Research Site

JPMorgan Launches Climate Change Research Site
JPMorgan's research department is making its analysis on climate change publicly available on its website. JPMorgan analysts and economists focus on ...

Matsushita Seeks Credits By Cutting Energy Use at 60 Factories in China

Matsushita Seeks Credits By Cutting Energy Use at 60 Factories in China
Japanese companies have so far gained emissions credits in China and other Asian countries, about 161 such projects approved so far, by helping ...

Carbon Offset Checklist

Carbon Offset Checklist
With all the recent criticism of carbon offset programs, Amy Sims, of Global Action Plan, writing in the UK's ...

Toyota VP: Toyota 100% Hybrid By 2020

Toyota VP: Toyota 100% Hybrid By 2020
Toyota is hoping to make as much money from hybrids as it does from conventional cars by the end of the decade, ...

Catalyst Releases Sustainability Report

Catalyst Releases Sustainability Report
Catalyst Paper has released its 2006 sustainability report (full report PDF, environmental section PDF). Catalyst was the top ...

Deloitte Employees Get Carbon Offset Corporate Charge Card

Deloitte Employees Get Carbon Offset Corporate Charge Card
Deloitte is offering its employees a carbon offset corporate charge card, GAAPweb reports. Made of recycled plastic and carbon neutral, ...

Abbott Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Abbott Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Abbott has released its 2006 Global Citizenship Report. As part of its efforts to protect the environment, Abbott has set five-year performance goals ...

McDonald’s, Kiplinger, HSBC Among Most Ethical

McDonald’s, Kiplinger, HSBC Among Most Ethical
Ethisphere magazine has released a list of most ethical companies. In assembling the 2007 rankings of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, the ...

Ford Launches Campaign For Escape Hybrid

Ford Launches Campaign For Escape Hybrid
Ford's strategy in promoting the 2008 Escape and Escape hybrid is to present the two versions of the compact SUV as separate ...

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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