March, 2008
Wilkins Ice Shelf Hangs By A Thread
An area of Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf that measures about 160 square miles has started to collapse, Reuters reports.
"These kinds of events, we don't see them very often," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at ...
Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck
Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds
Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota
‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks
Arithmetic Of Food Miles Flawed
Thousands of people in the UK have bought in to the idea that eating local produce can help save the planet, but "only local is good" has come under attack, according ...
TIAA-CREF Aims For 10% Cut In Real Estate Portfolio’s Energy Use
U.S. Air Force Goes Supersonic On Synthetic Fuel
A B-1B Lancer from the 9th Bomb Squadron at Dyess Air Force base recently became the first Air Force aircraft to fly at supersonic speed using an alternate fuel, the Air Force ...
Home Depot Pledges $30M For Habitat Green Building Program
The Home Depot Foundation is giving Habitat for Humanity $30 million in financial and in-kind support and technical resources to make at least 5,000 homes built by Habitat affiliates more energy efficient and ...
Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling
Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz
Some Fortune 500 companies are getting involved in ecosystem services. That is, finding ways to repay nature for the products it produces, according to an article by Marc Gunther in Fortune.
Starbucks ...
Patagonia Tracks Carbon ‘Footprints’
In May 2007, as part of the Footprint Chronicles, a group of 10 Patagonia employees were sent to travel the world, tracking five products from the design studio to the raw-materials ...
Up To Half Of Americans Recycle ‘All The Time’
Research from Natural Marketing Institute shows that 40-50 percent of Americans recycle common materials "all of the time." While consumers are increasingly engaging in various green behaviors, some of the fundamentals could be ...
How Recycling Helps Fight Climate Change
Consumer Product’s Green Diet: Slimmer Packaging Looks Good On You
What a difference a year makes. At the start of 2007, few consumer products companies had a focus on sustainability in packaging. However, 54 percent of the consumer goods companies that AMR Research recently surveyed ...
Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies
Environmental stakeholders have changed from pesky activists to big investors - pension funds, state controllers, institutional investors, and even their investment bankers - and can no longer be brushed aside, ...
SI Group Launches Website To Market Environmental Services
P&G, Hasbro, Stew Leonard’s Among NEEP Energy Efficiency Honorees
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships has announced the latest group of Northeast Business Leaders for Energy Efficiency:
P&G-Gillette in Boston, Massachusetts cut energy use 9.1 percent with an annual cost savings of $1,444,792.
Stew Leonard's in Norwalk, ...
PepsiCo Promotes ‘Positive Water Balance’ On Labels
Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has told two environmental agencies, Airport Watch and enoughsenough, to alter an ad campaign after concluding it made unsubstantiated claims about the level of public opposition to ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: ZigBee, EMAS, ISO 14001, LEED
