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Archive for March, 2008

Wilkins Ice Shelf Hangs By A Thread

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 ...

Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck

Zap Increases Payload With XL Truck
Electric vehicle maker Zap is introducing a new electric truck for fleets with a greater payload rating. Production ...

Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds

Chrysler Tests Wind Potential At Chelsea Proving Grounds
Chrysler is erecting a 26-story meteorological tower at its Chelsea Proving Grounds to determine if high-level winds are suitable ...

Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota

Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota wants to build the most environmentally friendly major sports stadium in the country, according to Discovery News Video....

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks
"Radical greening" is one of the top 10 strategic business risks for 2008, according to a new study (PDF) by Ernst ...

Arithmetic Of Food Miles Flawed

Arithmetic Of Food Miles Flawed
Thousands of people in the UK have bought in to the idea that eating local produce can help save ...

TIAA-CREF Aims For 10% Cut In Real Estate Portfolio’s Energy Use

TIAA-CREF Aims For 10% Cut In Real Estate Portfolio’s Energy Use
TIAA-CREF, one of America's largest institutional real estate investors, says it will improve the energy efficiency of its ...

U.S. Air Force Goes Supersonic On Synthetic Fuel

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 ...

Home Depot Pledges $30M For Habitat Green Building Program

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 ...

Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling

Buy Back Programs Offer New Angle On Electronics Recycling
NEW Customer Service will soon roll its ecoNEW electronics buy back program to electronic retailers nationwide, CNET ...

Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz

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 ...

Patagonia Tracks Carbon ‘Footprints’

Patagonia Tracks Carbon ‘Footprints’
In May 2007, as part of the Footprint Chronicles, a group of 10 Patagonia employees were sent to ...

Up To Half Of Americans Recycle ‘All The Time’

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 ...

How Recycling Helps Fight Climate Change

How Recycling Helps Fight Climate Change
In this first in a series of "5 Things You Should Know about Climate Change" on EnviroTV, Green Canary Sustainability CEO ...

Consumer Product’s Green Diet: Slimmer Packaging Looks Good On You

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. ...

Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies

Corporations Turn Environmental Activists Into Allies
Environmental stakeholders have changed from pesky activists to big investors - pension funds, state controllers, institutional investors, and ...

SI Group Launches Website To Market Environmental Services

SI Group Launches Website To Market Environmental Services
Phenolic resin and chemical intermediate supplier SI Group has launched StrategicGreen to market its environmental services. SI ...

P&G, Hasbro, Stew Leonard’s Among NEEP Energy Efficiency Honorees

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 ...

PepsiCo Promotes ‘Positive Water Balance’ On Labels

PepsiCo Promotes ‘Positive Water Balance’ On Labels
PepsiCo India is changing all of the labels on Aquafina, its bottle water brand, to announce that by next ...

Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads

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 ...

Today's News

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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