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Archive for August, 2007

Ford Publishes Product Sustainability Index

Ford Publishes Product Sustainability Index
Ford of Europe has published a Product Sustainability Index report (PDF) covering the Ford Mondeo, Ford S-Max and Ford Galaxy. Ford’s PSI ...

Safeway Switches Arizona Fleet To B20

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 ...

Wireless Carrier Offsets Customer Emissions

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 ...

Applied Materials Flips Switch On Austin Solar Array

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 ...

Sun Launches Major Data Center Push

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 ...

Altova Offsets Emissions At U.S., European Headquarters

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 ...

Green Building Costs Less Than You Think

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 ...

Chevron Completes $13.6 Million Energy Efficiency Project For Colorado

Chevron Completes $13.6 Million Energy Efficiency Project For Colorado
Upgrades to 20 state buildings in Colorado are expected to reduce energy costs at the facilities by 25 to 30 percent, saving ...

GE’s Jeff Renaud Discusses Ecomagination And Transparency

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 ...

Democrats Want $6.7 Billion To Fight Global Warming

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 ...

Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case

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 ...

Dow Corning Erects Solar Panels On Manufacturing Facility

Dow Corning Erects Solar Panels On Manufacturing Facility
Dow Corning has installed more than 1,000 square meters of solar panels on the roof and facades of its office and ...

Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction

Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction
Comedy Central has launched a new program to encourage audiences to lead an environmentally friendly life, reports PRWeek (via MarketingVOX). The new ...

Nissan Puts ‘Fuel Efficiency Gauge’ In All New Models

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 ...

UK ‘Green’ Grocers Look For CSR Directors

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 ...

Logicalis Joins Green Grid

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 ...

Environmentally-Friendly Outsourcers In High Demand

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 ...

Sustainable Print Design Guide Released

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: ...

Wal-Mart Releases Ethical Sourcing Report

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 ...

Pepperidge Farm Installs Fuel Cell

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 ...

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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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