January, 2008
Whole Foods Puts The Kibosh On Plastic Bags
By April, Whole Foods supermarkets says it will no longer offer plastic bags but environmentalists are skeptical about changing consumers' habits.
Bordeaux To Measure Wine’s CO2 Footprint
The Bordeaux Wine Board (CIVB) is launching a project to measure the GHG the region's industry is producing. The project, called "Bilan Carbone" in French, will run for the next ...
Nestle, Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes, Others To Cut Water Use
A group of 21 companies, including Birds Eye Iglo, Cadbury Schweppes, GlaxoSmithKline, Nestlé UK, Premier Foods, Tate & Lyle, Unilever and United Biscuits, agreed to cut their water use by 20 percent ...
Attorneys General Ask FTC for CO2 Offset Guidelines
Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell announced that he and nine other state attorneys general have written to the FTC and asked them to develop guidelines for businesses that sell carbon emission ...
Waste Management Launches Green Consumer Website
Waste Management launched thinkgreen.com, a marketing campaign that includes an interactive Website that shows consumers how to manage the four-and-a-half pounds of waste the average citizen generates each day. ...
Cassatt Joins the Green Grid
Software maker Cassatt announced its membership in The Green Grid, a consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
Cassatt's software lets customers use policy to ...
Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2
Air France said it plans to spend almost $3 billion a year through 2020 on modernizing its fleet of aircraft and other measures to improve its environmental credentials, reports WSJ. ...
Coke Greens Up in Europe and South America
Coca-Cola's second largest bottler, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, has reached an agreement with ContourGlobal to build 15 new combined heat and power plants by the end of 2009. They will ...
Axis Technologies Announces Alliance With Green Tech Energy Services
Axis Technologies announced that it has formed an alliance with Green Tech Energy Services. Paul Haviland, VP of Green Tech Energy, stated, "We are very excited to be ...
Green Technology Overview
Adam Grosser, general partner of Foundation Capital, describes the different categories of green technology and the challenges they face.
Register Now For Green Sustainable Efficiency World 2008!
Reflecting back on 2007, one industry clearly stands out as having benefited big time from the growing interest in sustainability: the conference industry. It seems like every week has offered at least one, and often more, chances to attend a brand new sustainability, efficiency or environmental conference of some kind.
Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow
The vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future, according to the latest Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research study.The January 2008 results reveal that ...
Automakers Lobby Against California Emissions Initiative
Carmakers and their allies have increased lobbying efforts to convince states that California's proposal to cut emissions could further depress the industry, according to this Reuters report. Dave McCurdy, the ...
Intel Tops EPA’s List of Green Power Purchasers
Intel announced it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates, making it the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the U.S., according to ...
Food Markets Getting Greener and More Sensual
Americans are turning more to food that benefits both their health and the environment. At the same time, according to the SF Chronicle, they're also looking for a grocery shopping ...
Adobe, CB Richard Ellis and Others Retrofitting Major Office Space
According to government estimates, commercial buildings account for more than 60 percent of the country's electricity consumption and generate 30 percent of all GHG emissions. And though new green commercial buildings ...
Lower Tolls for Green Cars
Around the world, toll agencies are giving discounts to owners of green cars, reports the New York Times, and last November the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced ...
Online Eco-Label Directory Launched
Canadian start up Big Room Inc.says it has launched the world's biggest independent directory of ecolabels. Available through an online database at ecolabelling.org, Big Room provides information for consumers, producers ...
Aveda Greens Up NY Fashion Week
For the upcoming Fall/Winter 2008 Fashion Week in New York, Aveda is joining efforts with a cadre of designers to make the show more eco-friendly, according to Aveda. The designers ...
Climate Change Not a Big Business Priority
A recent survey of more than 500 big businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China found that only five percent of the companies questioned regarded global warming as their ...
Tesco Tackles Food Waste with Ethylene-Absorbing Strips
