Archive for December, 2007
5 Stages Of Corporate Sustainability
In a recent AMR Research newsletter, John Davies wrote about five Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-like stages that a business might go through when embracing a sustainability strategy: Desire - The need for a company to "do something" ...
OfficeMax Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report
OfficeMax has issued its first Corporate Social Responsibility report (PDF). According to the report, OfficeMax reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 32,000 metric tons from 2005 to 2006....
Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products
Most natural-product consumers indicated they would pay more for environmentally friendly products, with seven in 10 consumers willing to pay up to 20 percent more, according to a recent MamboTrack study by Mambo Sprouts ...
U.S. Energy Bill Phases Out Incandescent Light Bulb
The energy bill, which passed the Senate last week and which the U.S. House could pass as early as today, will phase out incandescent light bulbs in the next four to 12 years in ...
New Plant Could Make Cereplast Leading Player In Bioplastics
Cereplast recently announced plans for a new facility in in Seymour, Indiana that will add 500 million pounds a year to its bioplastic resin production capacity when the site is fully developed by early ...
Half Of U.S. Adults Will Make Green New Year’s Resolution
Forty-nine percent of all American adults say they will make a green New Year's resolution this year, according to the results of a poll released by marketing consultancy Tiller LLC....
PG&E To Purchase Wave Power From Finavera
Pacific Gas & Electric has signed a power purchase agreement with Finavera Renewables for 2 megawatts of electricity that will come from a wave farm, CNET reports. The plan is for the wave ...
DuPont Uses Support Programs & Incentives To Encourage Energy Efficiency
DuPont has in place several programs to encourage and support its business units to implement energy efficiency goals to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. As a result of these and other initiatives, DuPont has cut ...
Gap Exists Between Corporate Citizenship Rhetoric And Reality
Positive attitudes about corporate citizenship among U.S. business leaders are not yet matched by positive actions, according to the State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S survey, a project of the Boston College Center ...
Beluga Skysails Prepares For Maiden Voyage
"MV Beluga Skysails" cargo ship has been fitted with a giant kite, which is attached to a 15-metre high mast and guided by a computer. The ship will make its maiden voyage from Germany ...
Daimler Takes Orders From NYC, Ottawa For Over 1000 Hybrid Buses
Daimler Buses North America has received orders totaling 1,052 Orion VII Next Generation diesel-electric hybrid transit buses from some of North America's largest transit authorities. MTA New York City Transit has ordered 850 and ...
AMD Study Reveals Shifting Patterns In Worldwide Datacenter Energy Use
Based on current growth trends, the U.S. share of total world server electricity use from datacenters will likely decline from 40 percent in 2000 to about one-third by 2010, while the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan) ...
NY Moving Company Greens Operations
Movers, Not Shakers says it is the first moving company in New York to incorporate green moving practices in its operations from start to finish. All of the companies moving trucks run on biodiesel produced ...
Supply Chain Leaders Should Prepare For Carbon Labeling
Companies should be preparing for carbon labeling, according to the latest edition of MIT's Supply Chain Strategy newsletter, developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. In response to the green trend of environmental ...
GM Turns To Workers To Help Trim Energy Bills
General Motors is trying to get workers to turn off lights and computers, and alert managers to window leaks and other energy inefficiencies, The Detroit News writes. One report has some plants and ...
Amtrak Launches Carbon Offset Program For Passengers
Amtrak has launched a program that lets passengers offset the carbon emissions footprint generated by their train travel. Offsets start at $3, a contribution which offsets 2,500 miles of Amtrak travel, or almost three round ...
De Boer’s Closing Press Briefing From Bali
In his closing press briefing, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer describes the outcome of the two-week conference and the successful adoption of the Bali roadmap for a future international agreement on climate change....
Bali Compromise Leads To ‘Action Plan’
Over the weekend, in a matter of minutes, the U.S. rejected and then accepted a compromise at Bali that sets the stage for global warming negotiations that will end in 2009, CNN reports. The head ...
Recycline Takes Boost Your Business Award
Last week, Recycline, an eco-friendly consumer-products company based in Waltham, MA, won the grand prize of the Forbes.com Boost Your Business contest. Recycline received the award - and grand prize of $100,000 - ...
1% Of UK Businesses Know Their Carbon Footprint
More than a quarter (26 percent) of all UK businesses, and 43 percent of large businesses, have been affected by climate change. Almost the same number (27 percent) of UK businesses now see climate change ...
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Meme Mine on WWF, WRI Make Last-Minute Pitches on Climate Change
"To the voting public, what the scientists say is irrelevant anymore for if you read..."
john on Electronics Boom, E-Cycling Lags
"When we fail to get the word out about e-cycling, we fail our consumers and our industry- I second..."
Btok on Canada Delays GHG Emissions Regs, Russia Ups Emissions Cuts
"http://www.infowars.com/dr-tim -ball-on-the-significance-o..."
ruffie on Wind Power Investments Grow in North America
"Anyone with any knowledge of the energy business in Canada knows that the majority of smart..."
Rod Johnson on Stimulus Package Delivers $2.4 Billion for Electric Vehicle Projects
"Will this stimulus be extended to other electric utility vehicles?"
Charli on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Thanks Environmental Leader, for..."
James Beddingfield on Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests
"Another great thing about an ocean-based carbon sink is that it can’t..."