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Bush Proposes International Clean Tech Fund

At today's meeting on climate change, President Bush outlined his climate change proposal which includes creating an “international clean technology fund,” to be supported by contributions from governments around the world, that would help finance ...

Pledge Rundown: Companies Pull Out Checkbooks At Clinton Global Initiative

U.S. Businesses have stepped forward with big pledges at the Clinton Global Initiative. Standard Chartered Bank, TreeHugger reports, has pledged $8-to-10 billion over five years to renewable-energy projects - wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, biomass, ...

Most Americans Think ‘Marketing Tactic’ When They Read ‘Green’

Seven in ten Americans either "strongly" or "somewhat" agree that when companies call a product "green" (meaning better for the environment), it is usually just a "marketing tactic," according to an Ipsos Reid study. Consumers appear ...

EPA Releases Climate Protection Partnerships Report

In 2006, EPA's climate protection programs prevented 70 million metric tons of carbon equivalent greenhouse gas emissions - up from 63 million in 2005, according to the Energy Star and Other Climate Protection Partnerships 2006 ...

Consumer Spending On Green Will Double, Reach $500 Billion In 2008

Consumers expect to double their spending on green products and services in the next year, totaling an estimated $500 billion annually or $43 billion per month, according to new findings from the 2007 ImagePower ...

TechSoup Launches IT Asset Management Program

TechSoup says it has launched a refurbished computer initiative that turns a corporation's unwanted IT equipment into effective corporate Green Philanthropy. The IT asset management program accepts all unwanted IT equipment (working or ...

Top U.S. Companies Face Impact Of Long-Range Energy Uncertainties

Energy was once managed as a cost, but companies in every sector increasingly see it as a strategic risk - and even as a source of new value and opportunity, according to a new ...

Chevron Launching $15 Million Campaign

Chevron is launching a global corporate campaign, themed "The Power of Human Energy," that aims to humanize the oil giant and its employees, AdAge reports. Roughly 10 percent of Americans "hate us and our industry ...

San Francisco International Airport Installs Solar Power System

San Francisco International Airport has completed the installation of a 500kW solar power system that consists of close to 3,000 Suntech solar modules. According to BASS Electric, the Terminal 3 solar energy system is estimated to ...

Yahoo Unveils New Green Icon

Yahoo's green icon challenge has ended and web visitors have picked a design, Earth Point!, by Leah Dickey, as the winner, TreeHugger reports. This is the icon that the search giant will use ...

Top GHG Emitters Meet At US-Led Climate Change Forum

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened a conference of the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitters today, just a few days after a UN conference on the same subject, The New York Times reports. Rice said that ...

2nd UK Beverage Maker Claims 1st To Use 100% Recycled Plastic Bottle

Innocent Drinks is the second UK beverage maker in the last week to say it is the first company to put its drinks into 100 percent recycled plastic bottles, Sustainable Is Good reports. Innocent ...

60% Of Companies Worry About Compliance Costs Of Climate Change Rules

While U.S. businesses are concerned about compliance costs related to climate change legislation, those same companies still believe that the federal government should be doing more to combat global warming, according to a new ...

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Cox Touts Green Efforts On New Website

Media company Cox Enterprises has launched CoxConserves.com, a website detailing the company's environmental initiatives and offering environmental tips. Cox Conserves is a national corporate program that includes the company's six major subsidiaries. The program encourages ...