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Archive for April, 2008

Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month

Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month
Carbon labels will be tested on Tesco-brand products next month, The Guardian reports. The retailer will put carbon ...

65% Of U.S. Consumers Will Pay More For Renewably Sourced Products

65% Of U.S. Consumers Will Pay More For Renewably Sourced Products
Nearly seven out of 10 U.S. consumers are willing to pay more for products made with renewable resources, according to a ...

Carbon Cutting On Bon Appetit’s Menu

Carbon Cutting On Bon Appetit’s Menu
Beginning on Earth Day, national food service contractor Bon Appetit Management Company, which serves 80 million meals a ...

Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’

Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’
I meet with too many organizations that are still addressing sustainability as if it's something new, something different, when in fact many ...

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat

Corporate Energy Efficiency Awareness Up, Spending Flat
Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations are paying more attention to energy efficiency than they were just a year ...

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Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It
In a Rose Garden speech today, President Bush acknowledged the need to put curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions and set ...

Sony Recycling Pays off

Sony Recycling Pays off
Sony is gathering the plastic shells of old Sony TVs from recycling plants, collecting excess Styrofoam from its production ...

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union says it's the first North American-based financial institution to be carbon neutral, two years ahead of schedule. Over ...

Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.

Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.
Down in Australia, the shop assistants' union wants laws to protect checkout operators from injury when they are forced ...

Bush To Give Speech On GHG Emissions Goal Today

Bush To Give Speech On GHG Emissions Goal Today
On Wednesday, President Bush will lay out specific goals for limiting greenhouse gases, making a commitment to other ...

Thule Installing Solar Power At US Headquarters

Thule Installing Solar Power At US Headquarters
Thule Inc., best known for its vehicle roof rack systems, will install a 318-kilowatt solar power system at ...

Sun Unveils Next Generation CMT Energy Efficient Server

Sun Unveils Next Generation CMT Energy Efficient Server
Sun has announced the next generation of Niagara, its CMT energy efficient server. The new CMT SPARC Enterprise T5140 and ...

Nike Readies Blueprint For Energy Efficient Factories

Nike Readies Blueprint For Energy Efficient Factories
As part of an energy-efficiency project (PDF) aimed at reducing energy consumption within its footwear contract manufacturing base, Nike says that ...

Why Congress Is Avoiding A Global Warming Vote

Why Congress Is Avoiding A Global Warming Vote
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page writer Joe Rago speaking last week on whether Congress is avoiding a vote on global warming....

China Emissions Underestimated, Top US

China Emissions Underestimated, Top US
A report to be published next month in the Journal of Environment Economics and Management by researchers from the ...

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010
KPMG has set a goal of reducing its member firms' combined carbon footprint 25 percent by the year ...

EPA: GHG Emissions Down In 2006

EPA: GHG Emissions Down In 2006
U.S. emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent overall from the previous year, according to the national greenhouse gas ...

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market
The California Climate Action Registry has launched Climate Action Reserve, which hopes to create standards for the voluntary ...

How To Avoid A Green Marketing Backlash

How To Avoid A Green Marketing Backlash
Americans misunderstand key phrases commonly used in environmental marketing and advertising, giving products a greater environmental halo than they deserve and creating ...

Toxic 100 Fingers DuPont As Top Polluter

Toxic 100 Fingers DuPont As Top Polluter
DuPont heads this year's Toxic 100, a list of the top corporate air polluters in the U.S. from ...

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False Economies

False Economies

Thanks to the sub-prime crisis and issues like the global credit crunch, many economies are in poor shape. Oil prices are continuing ... continue »

‘Shovel Ready’ Stimulus – Projects That Should Be Supported
Going Green Starts with Design
How Business Influences Climate Change Policy
Is The ‘Green’ In Green IT Dead? No, Because It Was Never Really Alive
Retailers Find Environmental Concerns Playing Larger Role In Reputation

Retailers Find Environmental Concerns Playing Larger Role In Reputation

Retailers have entered a new age of corporate citizenship in which not only working conditions but environmental impacts of production and products ...

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LOHAS Consumers Drive Charitable Donations
UN: CDM Increasing Emission-Saving Initiatives, Critics Disagree
CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals
Air New Zealand Completes Flight Powered By Jatropha Biofuel

Air New Zealand Completes Flight Powered By Jatropha Biofuel

Air New Zealand utilized a biofuel blend of 50:50 jatropha and Jet A1 fuel to power one of the Air New Zealand Boeing ...

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Autodesk Green Design Software
Is Sustainability A Fad Or Here To Stay?
China’s Recycling Rate Plummets
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Greenwash Brigade Looks Back At 2008

Green Business 2008 - Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

StubHub To Plant a Tree For Every Ticket Bought For NFL Post-Season

Emissions

Iowa Council Suggests Ways To Cut Emissions 90% By 2050

Dirty Coal A Likely Winner in 2009

Grand Canyon Visitors Center Taps Sun for Power

Hi-Tech

Connecticut DEP To Finalize Details of Statewide ‘E-waste’ Program

Speedy ROI with Quick Green IT Fixes

IT Leaders’ Green-Tech Predictions for 2009

Efficiency

Restaurants To Become ‘Greener,’ Offer More Local Produce In 2009

‘Smaller is Better’ Movement to Progress in 2009

Lenovo Meets, Exceeds EPA Energy Star Criteria Ahead of Deadline

Manufacturing

WSJ Slams Dell Over Carbon Neutral Claim

Product Stewardship Policy Gains Support

Rio Tinto Likely To Receive Free Carbon Permits Worth $462M in 2010

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Japan Airlines Jumps on Carbon Offset Bandwagon

SFO Kiosks To Sell Carbon Offsets

Critics: Bentley’s Plan To Cut CO2 With Ethanol Flawed

CSR Reports

Bombardier Meets 5-Yr Reduction Targets

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals

Sustainable Silicon Valley Members Cut CO2 Emissions 27%

Major Players

McDonald’s To Rollout Energy Efficient Systems

Wind Not Quite Enough to Fill Staples’ Sails

False Economies

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