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Archive for January, 2008

Whole Foods Puts The Kibosh On Plastic Bags

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

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. ...

Nestle, Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes, Others To Cut Water Use

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, ...

Attorneys General Ask FTC for CO2 Offset Guidelines

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 ...

Waste Management Launches Green Consumer Website

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 ...

Cassatt Joins the Green Grid

Cassatt Joins the Green Grid
Software maker Cassatt announced its membership in The Green Grid, a consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency ...

Air France Spending Billions to Reduce CO2

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 ...

Coke Greens Up in Europe and South America

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 ...

Axis Technologies Announces Alliance With Green Tech Energy Services

Axis Technologies Announces Alliance With Green Tech Energy Services
Axis Technologies announced that it has formed an alliance with Green Tech Energy Services. Paul ...

Green Technology Overview

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!

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

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 ...

Automakers Lobby Against California Emissions Initiative

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 ...

Intel Tops EPA’s List of Green Power Purchasers

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 ...

Food Markets Getting Greener and More Sensual

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, ...

Adobe, CB Richard Ellis and Others Retrofitting Major Office Space

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 ...

Lower Tolls for Green Cars

Lower Tolls for Green Cars
Around the world, toll agencies are giving discounts to owners of green cars, reports the New York Times, ...

Online Eco-Label Directory Launched

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 ...

Aveda Greens Up NY Fashion Week

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 ...

Climate Change Not a Big Business Priority

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 ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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