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Archive for July, 2007

Credit Suisse Cools Offices With Ice

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 ...

Ad Agencies Interested In Carbon Neutral Ad Space

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 ...

Flak Over Offset Program Continues For British Airways

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, ...

ICF Wins EPA Contract For Climate Change Initiatives

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 ...

DHL Introduces Reusable Return Envelope

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 ...

European Car Ads Turn To Green Metaphors

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 ...

Toyota Plant To Get Green Makeover

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 ...

Stonyfield’s Hirshberg Predicts How Global Warming Will Affect Business, Society

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 ...

Clean Air Act Violations Cost DuPont $70 Million

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 ...

‘24′ Reduces Carbon Footprint

‘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 ...

Formula One Wants To Address Climate Change

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 ...

Bush Takes Another Look At Emissions Caps

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 ...

OfficeMax Launches New Recycling Program

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 ...

Hard Core Green Teens Have WOM Power

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 ...

Brother: The Paperless Office Is Our Goal

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 ...

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations

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 ...

‘Green’ Vodka Hits Market

‘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 ...

Green IT Still Finding Its Way

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 ...

Macy’s Saves With Osram’s Electrodeless Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

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 ...

HSBC: Developed Economies Show Greatest Indifference To Climate Change

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 ...

Today's News

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

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

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

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

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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