Archive for February, 2008
J.R. Simplot Tops Portfolio’s List Of Polluters
The March issue of Conde Nast Portfolio highlights the best and worst, according to Portfolio, companies on environmental records: Some of the best: Bank of America Ceres Dupont General Electric Innovest Organic Valley Starbucks Tesla Motors Whole Foods Wal-Mart City of Austin, Texas More on ...
Tate & Lyle Promotes Fairtrade Commitment
Here's a look at an ad for Tate & Lyle's taste and smile initiative, which promotes the company's sugar trade commitment to FairTrade. The company recently announced that it is moving its entire retail ...
Westar Releases Energy Plan
Westar Energy has published an energy plan, Meeting Our Customers' Energy Needs: A Strategic Plan for Uncertain Times (PDF) that outlines the company's future plans. Westar says its strategy embraces state ...
US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations
The U.S. is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to James Connaughton and Daniel Price, environmental and economics advisers to President Bush, BBC reports. The ...
Weather Channel Details Earth Day Campaign
The Weather Channel is launching a new campaign, Help Make Every Day Earth Day, which will encourage green viewers to answer the question "What are you doing to help save the planet?" ...
Winemakers Ship By Sail
French vineyard owners are starting to export their wine by sailing boat to reduce their carbon footprint the Guardian reports. Later this month 60,000 bottles from Languedoc will be shipped to Ireland ...
Virgin Flies On Biofuel
Virgin Atlantic has flown one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets on biofuel from London Heathrow to Amsterdam. The aircraft flew using a biofuel composed of babassu oil and coconut oil, both ...
Sustainability Not Major Topic In Energy Industry Boardrooms
More than two-thirds of 81 energy industry executives surveyed by KPMG LLP said they regarded sustainability as an important element of their businesses, AP reports. Yet less than one-fifth of respondents ...
Coke To Launch ‘Sustainable Well-Being’ Campaign
Coca-Cola will spend an estimated $10 million on a major sustainability ad campaign, AdAge reports. The theme isn't just the environment, but "sustainable well-being," which Coke says encompasses a mental, physical, ...
Kettle Chips Sustainability Initiatives
News PKG for Oregon News on Kettle Chips and Sustainable Businesses You can see more on Kettle Chips sustainability efforts here.
Green Movement Influencing Kitchen Products
In the Home Design Trends Survey for the fourth quarter of 2007, residential architects report that the number and size of kitchens are still increasing in popularity, according to the American Institute of Architects. As ...
Oscars Green Choices Reach Red Carpet
Driving a Prius hybrid has become the standard way for Hollywood stars to flaunt their environmental credentials, but General Motors says more than 75 will get to the red carpet at tonight's Academy Awards in ...
Companies Prepare To Roll Out Green Mobile Networks
Cellular base stations in far-off places located beyond the reach of reliable - or any - electricity almost always get their power from diesel generators. But after experimenting for years with base ...
GM’s Bob Lutz: Global Warming Is A ‘Crock Of Shit’
During a closed-door session with reporters in January, Bob Lutz, General Motors’ vice chairman, said that global warming is a “total crock of shit," dmagazine.com reports (via BusinessGreen). Then ...
Auto Industry Spent $62 Million On Lobbying In 2007
Major U.S. automakers and industry trade associations spent $62.6 million on lobbying in 2007, compared with $50.3 million in 2006, according to a Free Press analysis of federal disclosure forms. The ...
Orange Dumps Edelman, Wants To Push CSR Efforts
In the hope of pumping up its CSR efforts, UK mobile phone company Orange has dumped Edelman and brought in CSR specialists Planet 2050 and Good Business, PRWeek reports. Edelman arm ...
Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future
Duke Energy is the nation's third-largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide - after American Electric Power and Southern Co. Depending on what controls Congress passes on carbon emissions, that's a potentially crippling ...
ESS Releases New Sustainability Software
ESS has released its new enterprise sustainability software platform, Essential Suite version 7.1. The company says that the software is scalable from plant level to global deployments and includes EH&S and ...
ecoEnvelopes Reusable Envelope Gets USPS Approval
The US Postal Service has approved ecoEnvelopes' line of reusable envelopes, certifying that the design meets the qualifications for use in the US mail. More than 80 billion reply envelopes are sent ...
Sony To ‘Address Consumers Directly’ About Environment
Sony says it will address consumers directly across various channels to enhance the communication of meaningful environmental information, vnunet.com reports. Sony was one of the companies that signed the Tokyo ...
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miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
"Yet another example of the potential of combined heat & power to transform..."
Stevenson on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"All of us should think of ways to save energy now. It is not a myth,..."
Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."
Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."
peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."
Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."
Jake on UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
"A point of clarification: the Reuters press release referenced herein reports that 20 UPS will purchase..."