November, 2007
Business Leaders’ Bali Communique Seeks Binding Emission Targets
On the eve of the UN negotiations in Bali, business leaders of 150 global companies, including Coca-Cola, Dupont, Gap, GE, and Johnson and Johnson, have sent a communique to the 130 Environment Ministers ...
U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and without requiring big changes ...
365 Main Customers Pass On Natural-Gas-Powered Data Center
365 Main, a data center developer and operator, wanted to build a new data center in Newark, Calif. fueled entirely by its own natural-gas-powered generators rather than relying on power from the local utility. ...
BofA Teams With Brighter Planet On Green Credit Card
Bright Planet, which back in March was one of the first U.S. companies to announce plans to offer a credit card with carbon offset rewards, has morphed into Brighter Planet and finally launched ...
Nau CEO Talks Up Company’s ‘Web Front’ Concept
Chris Van Dyke, CEO of Nau, discusses the company's "webfront" concept that integrates e-commerce with traditional bricks and mortar shopping and Nau's digitally centric approach to storytelling and brand building - part 1 of 2. ...
Coke To Add 120 Hybrid-Electric Trucks In 2008
Coca-Cola Enterprises has added five hybrid-electric trucks to their distribution center in the Bronx. The Bronx sales center has 90 trucks servicing customers in Manhattan and the Bronx.
Over the next year, an additional 120 side ...
Allstate Buys RECs
Allstate is purchasing 24.5 million kilowatts of renewable energy credits through Carbonfund.org. The credits are being used to "fund wind energy for Texans and reforestation projects in Kansas and Louisiana," according to Allstate. The ...
Whole Foods, Food Lion Among EPA’s GreenChill Participants
EPA and the supermarket, refrigeration equipment and chemical refrigerant industries have joined the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership – a program to promote green technologies, strategies, and practices. The program was launched earlier ...
Ethanol Losing Its Lustre
Ethanol has gone from the answer for U.S. energy independence to what some are calling a cure that is worse than the disease, according to a Wall Street Journal article. The biofuel's critics, which ...
IBM, Dell, Others Say IT Key To Tackling Climate Change
Information and communication technologies are largely contributing to climate change but also hold the key to tackling it, industry leaders told a conference at United Nations headquarters in New York.
ICT companies could enact substantial energy ...
Toshiba Launches Plant A Tree Program
Toshiba is promoting a new Carbon Zero Scheme in the UK, which lets customers donate $2.43 in exchange for Toshiba offsetting the lifetime carbon footprint of their laptop, engadget reports. You don't have ...
Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners
Global Green USA has announced the winners of its Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards.
Albanese Organization won the Green Building Design Award. The Albanese Organization built America's first environmentally advanced ...
How SC Johnson Saved $1.6 Million With Efficient Trucking
SC Johnson recently completed a transportation-logistics project that eliminated 1,882 tons of greenhouse gases over a 12 month period, used 2,098 fewer trucks, cut fuel usage by 168,000 gallons and saved approximately $1.6 million.
The ...
Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint
A Sao Paulo design agency, Chelles & Hayashi, aims to help companies create products that reduce the amount of raw material needed in their production process. A washing machine from Mueller that uses ...
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006
Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 1.5 percent. GHG emissions were 7,075.6 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent in 2006, a decrease of ...
Barneys Sells Green For The Holidays
Barneys New York, the high-end retailer, is pushing a "green" holiday this year, according to Good Experience. Slogans being used include "Have a Green Holiday," "Join the green revolution, we have!" and "Give ...
Tourism Operators Look For Sustainable Solutions
The push is on for tourism operators to operate sustainably. Here's a look at the issues New Zealand is facing. A key marketing point for NZ Tourism is to be clean and green and '100% ...
London 2012 Releases Sustainability Plan
London 2012 has outlined its sustainability plans for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Highlights of the sustainability plan, Towards A One Planet 2012, include: a carbon footprint study to measure the climate change impact ...
BASF Scores Big On Sustainability Communications Report Card
BASF’s corporate website is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications, Jungle Rating – a Dutch internet consultancy – concludes after investigating all sustainability websites of the European ...
Logica3 Launches Green Holiday Card Service For Businesses
As businesses prepare for the ritual of sending out their holiday greetings, Logica3, a design communications agency in the Chicago area, has launched SaveATreeCards.com that contains business e-cards designed to replace traditional paper ...
Tesco Tackles Food Waste with Ethylene-Absorbing Strips
