January, 2008
Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green
A 2007 survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and KDS revealed that only one-third of corporate travel policies promote sustainable tourism. And while many travelers say they ...
OVG CEO Says Green Pays Off
Conrad van Oostrom is the Dutch CEO and founder of OVG, a 10-year old real estate development company specializing in office buildings. According to this Business Week article, it ...
GM Receives Orders for Hybrid Buses
General Motors said it received orders for more than 1,700 hybrid buses from transit agencies in Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. ...
L.A. Plastic Bag Ban Unravels
Los Angeles County supervisors retreated from a threat to ban plastic bags and instead opted for a volunteer program that leaves it to supermarket and store owners to coax customers into packing ...
NTT Announces Carbon Offset Program
Global Inheritance Marketing Green to Gen Y
According to research from Mintel International, companies spend more than $1 billion a year on cause-related marketing, much of it increasingly going to green-related issues. But they need someone to help ...
UK’s Brown Calls For Green World Bank
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for the World Bank to assume an environmental role capable of taking on the global challenges posed by climate ...
Green Promotional Item Cuts PC Energy Use
The Ecobutton is a promotional item for businesses - company logos, messages and weblinks can be incorporated into the Ecobutton splash screen. When you hit the button, a computer is put ...
Closeup On Honda Clarity
Steve Ellis, marketing manager for Honda's fuel cell program, talks with Green Fuels Forecast about the retail launch of the Clarity.
Most Americans Say Green Efforts Pay Off For Communities
Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener
In a speech that promised widespread improvement and reform throughout Wal-Mart and its supply chain, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr., pledged to cut the energy used by many of its ...
Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site
Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants from a contaminated former oil storage facility near Kokomo, IN. They expect ...
Kyocera Adopts Hybrids As Company Cars
Kyocera Corporation announced that it will begin the full-scale adoption of hybrid vehicles for company cars that are used for general sales activities and movement between plants.
Kyocera currently has 194 vehicles ...
HP Introduces Two Energy-Efficient Business PCs
HP announced two new energy-efficient business desktop PCs, the HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC and the HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-slim Desktop PC, which is the industry's first to feature a solid-state hard drive, according ...
Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups
Dot Hill Systems announced it has joined the Green Grid and the Storage Networking Industry Associoation Green Storage Initiative, two organizations aimed at promoting "green" energy-efficient IT solutions. "Energy efficiency in ...
EU Sets Emissions Targets
The European Commission set new emissions targets and called on EU members to increase their use of renewable energy while also unveiling plans to make industry pay for the right ...
Greenfleet Offsets Emissions
Greenfleet Car Service announced that through its partnership with Carbonfund.org it has offset the carbon emissions of all its vehicles and base operations. "Greenfleet is dedicated to taking a ...
Marketers Scramble To Put Green Product Differentials To Work
Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report
Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report.
"The process of compiling information for this report has taught us a great deal, and we will continue to find ways to strengthen ...
Lawyers Charge Top Dollar For Climate Change Work
Twenty of the top 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms are billing as much as $700 dollars per hour for climate change work that ranges from lobbying Congress to helping clients finance clean-energy ...
