Archive for August, 2007

Rising Energy Costs Force Changes At Hitachi Unit

Rising Energy Costs Force Changes At Hitachi Unit

With the price of products such as laptops always coming down, and energy prices going up, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd. has been finding ways to cut its energy use, The Wall ...

August 27, 2007

Top Agencies Pitch Al Gore For Alliance Account

Top Agencies Pitch Al Gore For Alliance Account

Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the Martin Agency and Y&R are squaring off for the Alliance for Climate Protection (the organization formed last year by Al Gore) account, AdAge reports. The agencies ...

August 27, 2007

Virgin Games Installs Green Storage System

Virgin Games Installs Green Storage System

As part of the Virgin Group's global drive to develop and promote environmentally-friendly businesses, Virgin Games -brands include Virgin Poker, Virgin Bingo, and Virgin Casino - is using a new storage system to consolidate multiple tiers of ...

August 27, 2007

Perry Ellis Launching Line Of ‘Eco-Friendly’ Outdoor Garments

Perry Ellis Launching Line Of ‘Eco-Friendly’ Outdoor Garments

Economics are making it difficult for mainstream garment manufacturers to go green, The New York Times reports. Most synthetic materials are still petroleum-based, and organically grown fibers are in short supply. George Feldenkreis, Perry Ellis' chairman, says ...

August 27, 2007

Companies Focus On Cutting Energy Use

Companies Focus On Cutting Energy Use

With oil, gas and electricity prices soaring, companies are beginning to pour more money into making old equipment energy-efficient or upgrading to cleaner models, The Wall Street Journal reports. A recent study from the ...

August 27, 2007

Milliken & Company Launches Green Initiative

Milliken & Company Launches Green Initiative

Georgia-based Milliken & Company has launched an energy conservation initiative ­to reduce energy consumption. The company says that the initiative will increase awareness among associates to change practices at home and work; expand exploration of ...

August 27, 2007

iLinc Positions Video Conferencing As Emissions-Cutting Tool

iLinc Positions Video Conferencing As Emissions-Cutting Tool

Web and audio conferencing software company iLinc Communications says that customers, partners and employees participating in its iReduce program have saved a combined total of one billion pounds of CO2 by avoiding business travel. North ...

August 27, 2007

Could Cap-And-Trade Work For Water?

Could Cap-And-Trade Work For Water?

John Regan, founder of Environmental Credit Corp., a carbon-credit supplier on the Chicago Climate Exchange, thinks a model similar to CCX could work for companies that need to deal with water pollution and ...

August 27, 2007

BP Backs Down On Higher Lake Michigan Discharge Limits

BP Backs Down On Higher Lake Michigan Discharge Limits

BP says it will not invoke provisions of a new permit that allows it to release significantly more ammonia and suspended solids into Lake Michigan, The Chicago Tribune reports. The move is a response to criticism ...

August 24, 2007

Coalition Turns Up Heat On AES Hydro Projects

Coalition Turns Up Heat On AES Hydro Projects

AES Corporation is facing increased pressure from The Center for Biological Diversity, along with more than 50 indigenous and environmental groups, that are demanding it to withdraw from three proposed hydroelectric projects on ...

August 24, 2007

IBM Helps Clients Calculate & Cut Carbon Footprints

IBM Helps Clients Calculate & Cut Carbon Footprints

Green Wombat has an article about IBM's move into carbon consulting. "We’re working with customers that want to take carbon out of their supply chain," Peter Williams, the CTO for IBM's Big Green ...

August 24, 2007

Alcoa Installs 588 kW Solar Power System

Alcoa Installs 588 kW Solar Power System

Alcoa has completed a 588 kW, roof-mounted photovoltaic solar power system at its Alcoa Building and Construction Systems’ Kawneer manufacturing facility in Visalia, California. Alcoa partnered on the project with DEERS, a global solar ...

August 24, 2007

44% Of UK Shoppers Would Buy Brand With Smaller Carbon Footprint

44% Of UK Shoppers Would Buy Brand With Smaller Carbon Footprint

More than half of UK consumers want information about the carbon footprint of the products they purchase and nearly half would switch to brands with smaller carbon footprints, according to the L.E.K. Carbon Footprint Report (PDF) ...

August 24, 2007

Multinationals Accused of Violating China’s Water Pollution Regs

Multinationals Accused of Violating China’s Water Pollution Regs

Multinational companies are operating in a far more environmentally damaging fashion in China than they do at home, according to the Beijing-based Institute of Public & Environmental Affair, which says 90 multinationals that have been ...

August 24, 2007

Has U.S. Reached Green Turning Point? Depends Which Survey You Read

Has U.S. Reached Green Turning Point? Depends Which Survey You Read

Eighty-seven percent of consumers are seriously concerned about the environment, according to the 2007 GfK Roper Green Gauge. The survey is interesting on a number of fronts, not least of which is how ...

August 23, 2007

Woolworths Slammed For Using Sustainable Forests Logo

Woolworths Slammed For Using Sustainable Forests Logo

Woolworths, Australia's biggest supermarket chain, has told shoppers that two of its home brand products are environmentally sustainable, but at least two reports, plus an independent audit of the Indonesian company that supplies the ...

August 23, 2007

EBSCO Installs Solar Power System

EBSCO Installs Solar Power System

EBSCO Publishing has installed a photovoltaic array on the roof of their building on Union Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The 192 solar panels, mounted on the roof of the Quartz Building on Union Street, feed ...

August 23, 2007

Western States Pledge To Cut GHG Emissions

Western States Pledge To Cut GHG Emissions

Six Western states and two Canadian provinces pledged (PDF) Wednesday to work together to cut greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The coalition ...

August 23, 2007

Riverstone Installing Recyclable Carpet

Riverstone Installing Recyclable Carpet

Riverstone Residential Group, the nation's largest independently owned property management company, is installing recyclable carpet into 5,000 of its rental apartment units in Colorado - nearly 33 percent of the properties the company manages ...

August 23, 2007

Retailers Push Green Products On Back-To-School Crowd

Retailers Push Green Products On Back-To-School Crowd

Retailers are pushing eco-friendly products for back-to-school season, The Boston Globe reports. In recent weeks, Wal-Mart began selling a $350 eco-friendly computer, the Everex Impact. Wal-Mart also recently created a back-to-college group on the social networking ...

August 23, 2007

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