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Archive for April, 2008

Utility-Based Efficiency Programs Could Cut Energy Use 7-11 Percent

Utility-Based Efficiency Programs Could Cut Energy Use 7-11 Percent
Energy efficiency improvements in the U.S. electric power sector could reduce electric consumption by 7 to 11 percent more ...

Pepsi Cans Feature Recycling Info

Pepsi Cans Feature Recycling Info
Recycling facts and messages provided by the National Recycling Coalition will be featured on 500 million Pepsi cans and ...

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?
Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports. The aim of the ...

CO2, Methane Up Sharply In 2007

CO2, Methane Up Sharply In 2007
The 2007 rise in global carbon dioxide concentrations is tied with 2005 as the third highest since atmospheric measurements ...

Mortgage Company Offers Incentive To Buy Green

Mortgage Company Offers Incentive To Buy Green
Countrywide Home Loans, a division of Countrywide Bank, has launched a Green Incentive Program, Danielle Johnson of GreenWorksRealty.com ...

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing

Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
For years, sourcing and procurement organizations have focused on perfecting lean business processes, guided by the fundamentals of strategy, size, management, and ...

12 sustainable design ideas from nature

12 sustainable design ideas from nature
Janine Benyus provides examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. ...

Green Ad Recall Good, Trust Another Story

Green Ad Recall Good, Trust Another Story
Consumer recall of advertising with “green” messaging is high - more than one-third of consumers (37.1%) say they frequently recall green ...

Siemens’ Sacramento Light Rail Manufacturing Facility Going Solar

Siemens’ Sacramento Light Rail Manufacturing Facility Going Solar
Siemens Transportation Systems Inc. has approved the installation of a 1 megawatt solar energy system at its Sacramento light ...

Environmental News Snippets: Toyota, Hummer, Royal Caribbean - 4.25.08

Environmental News Snippets: Toyota, Hummer, Royal Caribbean - 4.25.08
MillionTreesNYC Announces Toyota as a New Driving Force Behind Campaign to Plant One Million Trees by 2017 MillionTreesNYC, a public-private ...

Green Business Experts Author Climate Change Strategy Book

Green Business Experts Author Climate Change Strategy Book
In "Climate Change: What's Your business Strategy?" (Harvard Business Press, $18), due out May 1, 2008, Andrew Hoffman ...

Softchoice Launches First Searchable Online ‘Green’ IT Product Listing

Softchoice Launches First Searchable Online ‘Green’ IT Product Listing
Softchoice has announced a new initiative to simplify the selection and acquisition of today's greenest information technology products. IT purchasers ...

Kodak Reports Progress on Sustainability Goals

Kodak Reports Progress on Sustainability Goals
Eastman Kodak announced that it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent, reduced its total energy use ...

U.S. Patent Office Swamped With ‘Eco’ Applications

U.S. Patent Office Swamped With ‘Eco’ Applications
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) saw a 10 percent increase in trademark filings last year for green-themed ...

Unilever, Toyota, HSBC Have Best Ethical Reputation

Unilever, Toyota, HSBC Have Best Ethical Reputation
Geneva-based Covalence has published its third annual ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have ...

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design

Architect Norman Foster On Green Design
Architect Norman Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically ...

Concrete Recycler Grinds Toward Sustainability With Largest Solar Installation in San Jose

The Star Quality Concrete solar installation in downtown San Jose, Calif., will be the largest commercial solar power system in the area, ...

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report

Safeway Unveils Two New Solar-Powered Stores, Releases CSR Report
As part of its Earth Day celebration, Safeway Inc., one of the largest retail users of renewable energy, unveiled ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’
Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

EPA Insiders Report Widespread, Potentially Harmful Political Interference

EPA Insiders Report Widespread, Potentially Harmful Political Interference
Results of investigations by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) paint the EPA as an agency under siege from ...

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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