August, 2007
Ford Publishes Product Sustainability Index
Safeway Switches Arizona Fleet To B20
Safeway has converted all 79 of its Arizona trucks to B20 Biodiesel made from domestically manufactured virgin soybean oil, Green Car Congress reports. The conversion will reduce Safeway’s carbon dioxide gas output by 3,603 ...
Wireless Carrier Offsets Customer Emissions
Working Assets, a San Francisco wireless carrier with 50,000 subscribers, has a "carbon-neutral phone" program that has the company paying $55 to the Carbon Fund for a year’s worth of carbon offsets when new subscribers ...
Applied Materials Flips Switch On Austin Solar Array
Applied Materials has flipped the switch on Austin's largest business solar array, News 8 Austin reports.
Applied's President and CEO issued the company a challenge to reduce its environmental impact by 50,000 tons of carbon ...
Sun Launches Major Data Center Push
Sun has launched its Eco Innovation Initiative , which the company says can help customers improve economic and energy efficiency in the datacenter by as much as 60 percent. The campaign packages products for data center ...
Altova Offsets Emissions At U.S., European Headquarters
Altova, a creator of XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, is offsetting all the carbon emissions produced in powering its U.S. headquarters.
Altova’s purchase of 144,000 kWh worth of renewable energy credits from ...
Green Building Costs Less Than You Think
Key players in real estate and construction misjudge the costs and benefits of "green" buildings, creating a major barrier to more energy efficiency in the building sector. Respondents to a 1400 person global survey estimated ...
Chevron Completes $13.6 Million Energy Efficiency Project For Colorado
GE’s Jeff Renaud Discusses Ecomagination And Transparency
There's an interview from Sustainable Life Media with Jeff Renaud, Director of GE's Ecomagination program. In it, Renaud says that at the heart of Ecomagination is the belief that financial and environmental performance can work ...
Democrats Want $6.7 Billion To Fight Global Warming
Congress wants to spend as much as $6.7 billion next fiscal year to combat global warming, an increase of nearly one-third from the current year, The LA Times reports. President Bush's proposed budget, on the ...
Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case
Home Depot is paying nearly $10 million to settle a civil case filed by state and Los Angeles County prosecutors over the retailer's failure to properly store and transport hazardous waste, the LA Times ...
Dow Corning Erects Solar Panels On Manufacturing Facility
Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction
Nissan Puts ‘Fuel Efficiency Gauge’ In All New Models
All future new models from Nissan will be equipped with a fuel efficiency gauge to give drivers more information on how their driving style directly relates to fuel economy.
The gauge provides the driver with ...
UK ‘Green’ Grocers Look For CSR Directors
Asada, Sainsbury's, and Tesco, three UK grocers with green agendas, are all searching for new directors of corporate social responsibility, The Guardian reports. The CSR director has changed from being regarded as something of a box-ticking backwater ...
Logicalis Joins Green Grid
Logicalis has joined the Green Grid, a consortium of companies working to advance energy efficiency in data centers and computing ecosystems.
“We look forward to joining our partners -? IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, HP and BT - ...
Environmentally-Friendly Outsourcers In High Demand
Over 21 percent of publicly traded companies that outsource functions have added "green policies and performance" demands to their vendor contractual arrangements in 2007, and over 94 percent plan on adding clauses or including "green" in their ...
Sustainable Print Design Guide Released
Monadnock Paper Mills has released the second edition of a how-to guide for creating more sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print points out alternatives for design decisions that support ...
Wal-Mart Releases Ethical Sourcing Report
In 2006, Wal-Mart conducted more factory audits than any other company in the world, at 8,873 factories producing goods for Wal-Mart, 15 percent more than in 2005, according to the company's 2006 Ethical Sourcing ...
Pepperidge Farm Installs Fuel Cell
Pepperidge Farm is installing a 1.2 MW fuel cell at Pepperidge Farm's Bloomfield, CT, bakery. The initiative is being supported by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF), a ratepayer fund administered by ...
Maritime Shipping: EL Insights, Issue 36 - May 24, 2012
