April, 2008
Major Aviation Industry Players Ink Climate Change Pledge
At the third annual Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva April 22 and 23, 2008, airlines, airports, and aircraft makers pledged for the first time to cut their emissions.
More than 100 airports ...
Vodafone Calls For 50% Reduction In Its Global Warming Emissions
Vodafone Group has announced that it will cut its CO2 emission by 50 percent by the year 2020 through increased energy efficiency and increasing the amount of renewable energy the company uses.
Solar-powered phone chargers ...
Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel
CNN has an interesting video on Vertigro. Glen kertz grows algae in bags suspended in a greenhouse. Oil is extracted and turned into biofuel. The yield, according to Kertz, is 100,000 gallons of algae fuel ...
Price Sensitivity of Environmentally-Friendly Products
According to Natural Marketing Institute’s 2007 LOHAS Consumer Trends Database, price is still a very important factor for determining purchase propensity. As shown in the figure above, nearly 60 percent of U.S. consumers admit ...
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Last fall, I used the term "greenwashing" in a panel discussion with business leaders in Austin, Texas. Though this is a phrase my business partner and I have been using since the early '90s, some ...
Green 15 – InfoWorld Picks Top Green IT Leaders
InfoWorld has unveiled its selections for the Green 15 awards. Recipients are organizations that have made significant energy-saving, waste-reducing initiatives.
This year's winners are, in alphabetical order:
• BT Group ...
As Goes Wal-Mart…Retailer Says Green Product Adoption Up In 2007
Wal-Mart has announced an adoption rate increase of 66 percent from last year in its sustainability Live Better Index, which has been tracking consumers' decisions to purchase five key eco-friendly products since April 2007.
The ...
CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2
The Clean Development Mechanism has taken some heat lately, but here's some positive press. Projects to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries have prevented 135 million tonnes of CO2 emissions ...
Kraft, Marks & Spencer Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners
DuPont has announced the winners of the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognized "achievements that improve the sustainability of products and processes."Here are the winners: Kraft Foods, Plastipak Packaging – U.S. Kraft ...
Planet Green Prepares For Launch
Planet Green is hoping to tap into corporate America's new focus on eco friendliness. The channel will launch June 4th and its programming will be seen on Discovery channels around the world. ...
Environmental News Snippets: Unilever, Dell, Goodyear, Evian – 4.23.08
Unilever targeted in orang-utan protest
Environmental protesters dressed as orang-utans today staged demonstrations against the consumer goods giant Unilever to highlight the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest. Guardian
Want to green your job? ...
FedEx Installs Solar Power Systems
FedEx Freight has installed a solar power system in Whittier, California, and is nearing completion on a similar solar-powered facility in Fontana, California.
The 282 kilowatt solar power system in Whittier has the ...
How To Keep Sustainability Initiatives Rolling After Earth Day
Companies are plastering the Internet with press releases touting Earth Day initiatives - yours is probably one of them. So, how can managers and supervisors increase the probability that sustainable practices will ...
AEP Orders Hybrid Utility Trucks
JPMorgan Targets 20% Emissions Cut
JPMorgan Chase says that by increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating employees on energy conservation, the firm aims to cut its global emissions 20 ...
Recession Or Not, Consumers Pay More For Green Products
While consumer spending has fallen in many categories due to a weakened U.S. economy and budget tightening, Americans are still willing to pay more for green products and services, according to a survey commissioned ...
Green Data Center Adoption Stalls
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of senior decision makers at leading North American corporations who are directly responsible for ...
Environmental News Snippets: Yahoo, Shell, AMD, Ricoh, Think – 4.22.08
Think To Bring All-Electric Cars To U.S. Next Year
Think Global, the Norwegian company making an all-electric town car, has reiterated that it will begin to bring its cars to the U.S. in ...
GE, Gamesa, Siemens, Vestas Talk Up Renewable Energy Tax Credit
Dole Offsets Transport of Bananas and Pineapples in Costa Rica
Dole says that its operating division in Costa Rica will purchase carbon offsets from the Costa Rican Government's program in amounts equal to the carbon dioxide emissions generated by the inland transport ...
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
