Archive for August, 2007
55% Of Companies Have ‘Green Data Center Action Plans’
About 55 percent of companies have established detailed strategies for making their data centers more energy efficient, according to a survey of senior and C-level executives that will be released next ...
Schwarzenegger Meets With German Minister To Discuss Carbon Trading
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, plan to begin talks today about how California could work with the European Union to create a system that would allow companies to buy and sell ...
Qantas Plans September Takeoff For Carbon Offset Program
Qantas says that beginning in September, consumers and businesses will be able to purchase carbon credits to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, Australia's The Age reports. The company hasn't said how much the offsets will ...
GM Plant Eliminates Waste, Goes Landfill-Free
General Motors' Baltimore transmission plant has reached zero landfill status. The plant is the eighth GM facility to be tagged as landfill-free. The GM Powertrain Baltimore plant will be the exclusive manufacturer of GM’s all-new two-mode ...
Volkswagen To Offset Projected Emissions Of Cars
Volkswagen of America plans to offset the carbon emissions of projected consumer use. From September 1, 2007, until January 2, 2008, vehicles sold by Volkswagen will have carbon emissions offset for the first year of ...
Stora Enso Installs New Sustainability Management Software
Paper, packaging and forest products company Stora Enso is installing sustainability management and reporting software from Proventia Solutions. The system combines Proventia's sustainability management and reporting solution with Hyperion's financial management and reporting ...
Ford Turns Paint Fumes Into Energy
Ford Motor Co. is purchasing a fuel cell from FuelCell Energy for its Oakville, Ontario, facility to reduce paint solvent from automotive painting operations by turning its fumes into 300 kilowatts of electricity. The ...
Enterprise, GM, VeraSun, Kroger Step Up FlexFuel Marketing Efforts
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has dubbed one of its Cincinnati rental locations as an official "VE85/FlexFuel branch." On June 28, a similar VE85/FlexFuel branch was announced in Washington, D.C. VeraSun Energy Corporation and The Kroger Co. ...
New York’s Dormitory Authority To Require LEED Standards
The Dormitory Authority, a New York state agency that provides financing and construction services to public and private universities and nonprofit health care facilities, will require new projects to meet LEED standards, AP ...
Starbucks Finds CSR Silver Lining In Box Office Failure Of Arctic Tale
Arctic Tale, a Paramount Classics documentary co-financed by National Geographic Films, has only grossed roughly $600,000 domestically since its release July 25, The LA Times reports. Starbucks signed on to promote the film with special in-store ...
Snyder’s Increases Efficiency, Makes Changes To Packaging, Transportation
Pretzel maker Snyder's of Hanover has increased sustainability and cost-savings by making changes to packaging specifications and the way it transports products and raw materials. Georgia-Pacific worked on the project. The company redefined box compression ...
Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades
Office Depot has reached a 10.1% absolute reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and electricity consumed in its North American retail stores, warehouses, and offices by installing more energy efficient technology. Between 2005 and 2006 ...
ARB Issues CO2 Vehicle Emissions Instructions
The California Air Resource Board has issued a mail-out (PDF) to inform all off-road and on-road engine and vehicle manufacturers of the new requirement to report carbon dioxide emissions measured during the certification ...
UPS Pushes Paperless Billing, Sort Of
With less than one percent of UPS's small- to medium-sized business customers using the electronic billing option, UPS recently surveyed its customers to find out what would make them switch away from paper. What they discovered was ...
Airlines Kiss Paper Tickets Goodbye
The global airlines body IATA has placed its last order for paper tickets, CNET reports. "In just 278 more days, the paper ticket will become a collector's item," said Giovanni Bisignani, director general ...
Citigroup Plans $232 Million LEED Data Center
Citigroup plans to build a $232 million LEED-certified data center in Frankfurt, Greener Computing reports. The data center, which the company said would cost no more to build than a traditional facility, will ...
SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration
SC Johnson says that powering the company's largest global manufacturing plant with cogeneration turbines that run on natural gas and waste methane from a public landfill have prevented GHG emissions equivalent to that ...
25% Of Americans Don’t Recycle
While three-quarters of American adults recycle something in their own home, 23 percent still recycle nothing at all. One may think that the younger generation is the one most likely to recycle, but this is ...
Weather Channel Updates ‘Forecast Earth’ Campaign
The Weather Channel has updated its “Forecast Earth" campaign to include internal green initiatives, dubbing the new campaign "Forecast Earth -? Going Green At Work." The move includes work on a new 12,500-square-foot studio will follow a plan ...
Raymour & Flanigan Furniture Touts Recycling Efforts
Raymour & Flanigan Furniture says it's on track to recycle 15.2 million pounds of waste this year "Furniture ships from our manufacturers in cardboard, plastic and Styrofoam packaging," explains Michael Goldberg, Executive Vice President. ...
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Tom Stacy on National Grid Again Rejects High Costs of Offshore Wind
"Each time government entices big money investment away from riskier, but clearly..."
miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
"Yet another example of the potential of combined heat & power to transform..."
Stevenson on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"All of us should think of ways to save energy now. It is not a myth,..."
Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."
Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."
peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."
Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."