Archive for July, 2007
Credit Suisse Cools Offices With Ice
Credit Suisse's offices at the Metropolitan Life tower in Manhattanan rely on an ice storage system to keep cool, according to Forbes. In the basement, three main cooling rooms house chilling machines and 64 tanks ...
Ad Agencies Interested In Carbon Neutral Ad Space
Interactive agencies and publishers might be considering ways to promote ad space as carbon neutral, Internet News reports. The Institute for Sustainable Communications wants to work with groups like The Green Grid and receive funding ...
Flak Over Offset Program Continues For British Airways
British Airways program that allows customers to offset carbon dioxide emissions from their flights is "risible," a committee of U.K. lawmakers said, Bloomberg reports. The plan allows passengers to buy carbon credits to offest their ...
ICF Wins EPA Contract For Climate Change Initiatives
ICF International has won a contract with the EPA valued up to $37 million over five years. Under the contract, ICF will provide technical and outreach support services to the EPA for domestic and ...
DHL Introduces Reusable Return Envelope
DHL has introduced a reusable envelope for customers that ship and return legal-size documents, DMNews reports. The reusable legal envelope has a built-in closure mechanism that allows it to be re-sealed and used twice. The ...
European Car Ads Turn To Green Metaphors
The new emphasis on alternative energy and low carbon-dioxide emissions in car ads for Europe's premium brands reflects the pressure car makers feel from environmental groups and European Union regulators to tone down their emphasis ...
Toyota Plant To Get Green Makeover
Toyota says that it plans to increase the sustainability of its production operations, Huliq.com reports. The initiative will emphasize the role of nature in creating production sites. These "sustainable plant" activities are to be first carried ...
Stonyfield’s Hirshberg Predicts How Global Warming Will Affect Business, Society
The economic consequences of climate change will be the dominant social and economic reality of the next 15 years, as well as the next century, according to a GreenMoney Journal article by Gary Hirshberg, President and ...
Clean Air Act Violations Cost DuPont $70 Million
The Department of Justice and EPA have reached a settlement with DuPont that is expected to reduce more than 13,000 tons of emissions annually from four sulfuric acid production plants in Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. DuPont will spend at ...
‘24′ Reduces Carbon Footprint
Imagine and Twentieth Century Fox Television say they will make the TV series 24 the first production ever to save enough energy and reduce enough carbon emissions over the course of a season to render its entire ...
Formula One Wants To Address Climate Change
Formula One, one of the world's most popular sports, is considering making some green changes. A growing number of team bosses say they want to make Formula One a high-tech pioneer and leader in fighting climate ...
Bush Takes Another Look At Emissions Caps
The Bush administration, under pressure from both U.S. business interests and foreign allies, is exploring a range of options to address climate change, including some form of economywide emissions caps, The Wall Street Journal ...
OfficeMax Launches New Recycling Program
OfficeMax has launched a new recycling program through its MaxPerks membership program. The system provides customers with a system to collect and redeem recyclable office items such as used ink and toner cartridges ...
Hard Core Green Teens Have WOM Power
According to a new report from Jupiter Research, 38 percent of teens are concerned about the environment, including 15 percent that describe themselves as hard core greens, Marketing Green reports. These hard core teens are more ...
Brother: The Paperless Office Is Our Goal
In an interview with Business Green Blog, Mike Dinsdale, UK communications director for printer giant Brother (he's also responsible for the corporate social responsibility agenda), says that Brother's long term goal is the ...
Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations
Equistar Chemicals, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will spend more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup to address air, water and hazardous waste violations at seven petrochemical plants in Texas, Illinois, Iowa and ...
‘Green’ Vodka Hits Market
McCormick Distilling Co. and Premier Beverage Co. have launched 360 Vodka, which the companies are calling "the world’s first environmentally-friendly vodka." The distillery was recently upgraded to reduce fossil fuel energy use by 21 percent ...
Green IT Still Finding Its Way
In the absence of a mature green IT market, users are cobbling together green strategies that are saving them money without negatively impacting IT performance, Infoworld reports. Many strategies are based on internal development efforts, while ...
Macy’s Saves With Osram’s Electrodeless Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Osram Sylvania's chief executive Charlie Jerabek said that the company's electrodeless compact fluorescent lasts for about 15,000 hours and cost about $25 to $30 apiece, according to an interview in Investor's Business Daily (via CNNMoney.com) At that ...
HSBC: Developed Economies Show Greatest Indifference To Climate Change
People in developing economies exhibit the greatest concern, commitment and optimism towards the problem of climate change and in developed economies the greatest indifference, reluctance and fatalism, according to HSBC Climate Confidence Index (PDF). Overall, ...
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Phil on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
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Roy Tindle on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
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Rick Row on Climate Scientists Alleged to Have Manipulated Data
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