March, 2008
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 joins the EPA's Green Power Partner list and becomes the second largest ...
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 environmental groups or NGOs, according to research from Peppercom and Media-Screen.
In ...
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 the trucks burning cleaner than brand new trucks and well-below the new air ...
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 Climate Initiative. TAC will implement energy reduction initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas ...
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 April, Auto Spectator reports. The guidelines replace the previous green procurement standards ...
Toyota Gives Audubon $20M Grant
Earth Day must be approaching because a lot of big brands are announcing major initiatives with conservation and other nonprofit organizations. This week alone, Home Depot pledged $30 million to ...
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 to a proposed BP wind power facility, The New Age Examiner reports.
Although ...
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 2007 - equivalent to the emissions of more than 540 return flights from ...
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 Leaf that kicks off on April 20 and runs through April 27.
It ...
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 around the world....
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 it, The New York Times reports.
Using a "power-purchase agreement" model, many solar ...
JPMorgan Buys Carbon Offset Company ClimateCare
JPMorgan has acquired Climate Care, a UK carbon offset company. The company will invest in large-scale carbon emission reduction projects and trade the carbon emission reduction credits. ClimateCare will be ...
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 imaginative accounting and donations to environmental projects abroad, rather than meaningful emissions reductions, ...
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 The Body Shop in third, according to a survey of 1,000 UK ...
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 marketing campaign, USA Today reports.
As a point of reference, U.S. automakers and ...
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 neighboring Hebei province is sacrificing water....
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 the carbon impact of the electricity required to power their computer.
The program is ...
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 program:
To show you're serious about environmental responsibility, you should integrate it into the ...
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 campaign for its Windows Live OneCare protection suite with the tagline, "Get Green, ...
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 then measures the environmental benefits that could be achieved in terms of energy ...
Tesco Tackles Food Waste with Ethylene-Absorbing Strips
