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Archive for March, 2008

Hillwood Makes Big Renewable Energy Purchase

Hillwood Makes Big Renewable Energy Purchase
Hillwood has signed a 100-percent renewable energy contract for its properties in North Texas. With the contract, Hillwood ...

NGO Endorsements Carry Weight With Consumers

NGO Endorsements Carry Weight With Consumers
Three in four consumers say their purchasing and, to lesser but growing degree, investment decisions are influenced by non-government ...

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters
Raley's, a supermarket chain with stores in California, has retrofitted 16 older trucks with a new exhaust filtration system resulting in ...

Chicago’s Merchandise Mart Retrofits Under Clinton Climate Initiative

Chicago’s Merchandise Mart Retrofits Under Clinton Climate Initiative
Chicago's Merchandise Mart has signed the first project development agreement in the U.S. under the Clinton ...

Nissan Readies Green Procurement Guidelines

Nissan Readies Green Procurement Guidelines
Nissan will issue new green procurement guidelines, a set of environmental protocol to augment The Nissan-Renault Purchasing Way, in ...

Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant

Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant
Earth Day must be approaching because a lot of big brands are announcing major initiatives with conservation and ...

P&G In Talks To Run Plant On Wind Power

P&G In Talks To Run Plant On Wind Power
Procter & Gamble has reached an agreement in principle to connect P&G's paper products manufacturing plant in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania ...

Thin Clients Trump PCs On Energy Consumption

Thin Clients Trump PCs On Energy Consumption
The choice of thin clients over PCs on the business desktop has reduced CO2 emissions in Western Europe by 166,000 tonnes in ...

Macy’s Hooks Up With National Park Foundation For Earth Week

Macy’s Hooks Up With National Park Foundation For Earth Week
For Earth Week and National Park Week, Macy's is launching a green campaign dubbed Turn Over A New ...

McDonald’s Lightens Up Packaging

McDonald’s Lightens Up Packaging
Jennifer McCracken,environmental manager for HAVI-Perseco, McDonald's global packaging supplier, outlines some of the ways McDonald's is making its product packaging more sustainable ...

New Financial Models Make Solar Power More Economical

New Financial Models Make Solar Power More Economical
Solar companies are becoming financial intermediaries, leading companies to install solar power that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford ...

JPMorgan Buys Carbon Offset Company ClimateCare

JPMorgan Buys Carbon Offset Company ClimateCare
JPMorgan has acquired Climate Care, a UK carbon offset company. The company will invest in large-scale carbon ...

Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts

Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts
Not too long ago, Norway announced that it would be carbon neutral by 2030. Now, it's becoming apparent that ...

BP Tops Greenpeace In Green Brands Survey

BP Tops Greenpeace In Green Brands Survey
Marks and Spencer is the brand with the most green credentials, followed closely by Innocent in second place and ...

Alliance For Climate Protection Launches $300M Marketing Push

Alliance For Climate Protection Launches $300M Marketing Push
The Alliance for Climate Protection will spend $300 million over the next three years on a global warming ...

China Diverts Water Resources To Ensure ‘Green’ Games

China Diverts Water Resources To Ensure ‘Green’ Games
Beijing wants to look good when the upcoming summer games put it on the world's stage. To green up Beijing, the city's ...

Sam’s Club Sells Plant A Tree Program For Dell

Sam’s Club Sells Plant A Tree Program For Dell
Customers buying a Dell computer at samsclub.com can now pay $2 for a laptop and $6 for a desktop to help offset ...

Read This Before Heading Down The Green Path

Read This Before Heading Down The Green Path
BusinessGreen has published a list of the top 10 issues a company should consider before launching a CSR ...

Microsoft ‘Green’ Campaign Has Nothing To Do With Environment

Microsoft ‘Green’ Campaign Has Nothing To Do With Environment
At a time when the word "green" is synonymous with helping the environment, Microsoft has launched a new marketing ...

Xerox Unveils Sustainability Calculator For Office Tech

Xerox Unveils Sustainability Calculator For Office Tech
Xerox has launched a sustainability calculator that measures the overall impact a company's printers and copiers have on the environment. It ...

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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