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Solar Energy, Sustainable Packaging Create Buzz At Wineries

Far Niente, a winery in California's Napa Valley region, has installed a first-of-its-kind solar power array and the latest example of how Northern California's wine industry is using solar power, SFGate.com ...

Putting A Price On CO2 Could Mean 10% Cut in Emissions

A new analysis by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business shows possible positive short-term effects of establishing a mandatory price for CO2 emissions. The study titled "Short Run ...

Dow Ups Prices In Response To Rising Energy Costs

Dow Chemical Co. says that, beginning June 1, it is raising its prices by up to 20 percent, based on products' exposure to rising costs, to offset the soaring cost of energy, ...

Selling Green? Follow The Prius Marketing Blueprint

Toyota's Prius has created a new definition of automotive cool, Jacquelyn Ottman writes in AdvertisingAge. Marketing, of course, has a lot to do with how that happened. Here are a few points ...

Think Like A Pre-Schooler: Always ask ‘Why?’

In rough economic times, corporations should re-think status quo to save money and the environment. My six-year old niece has a beautiful, inquisitive mind: "Uncle Kevin, why do dogs stick their tongues out?" "Why do people ...

Cement Industry In Demand V. Emissions Battle

Cement plants have become more automated, integrated and efficient since Henry Kaiser founded the Kaiser Cement Corporation -- now known as Hanson Permanente Cement -- in 1939 in the hills above Cupertino, ...

Citi Takes LEED Pre-Certification To The Bank

Citi has announced that it is the first company to achieve LEED pre-certification for a retail commercial interior prototype through a pilot USGBC program. Three new CitiFinancial branches in Austin, Texas, Flint, ...

Some Consumers Green in Action, Others in Theory

While 46 percent of U.S. adults say they neither think nor act Green, the two percent of the population who are self-described Green Advocates are among the most tech-savvy consumers, according to Mediamark Research & ...

Pike Place Market Serves Up Environmental Initiatives

AccuWeather takes a look at the green initiatives at Seattle's Pike Place Market.

Railroads Switch To More Eco-Friendly Tracks

Norfolk Southern is among a growing number of railroad companies running environmentally themed ads, The Wall Street Journal reports."Too bad we can't all drive a train," an ad says before urging listeners to visit ...

HSBC Unveils Green Credit Card

HSBC has launched a credit card with green rewards. Customers who spend at least $3,000 using HSBC's new ecosmart MasterCard can redeem earned points in the form of charitable donations to organization ...

Advantage Aims For First 100% Hybrid Rental Fleet In U.S.

Advantage Rent A Car has committed itself to becoming the first major all green car rental company in the U.S. The company will turn 100 percent of its fleet "green" over the next ...

UN To Rule On Arctic Territorial Claims

With climate change revealing more and more of the Arctic region's possibly energy-rich seabed, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the U.S., all Arctic coastal nations, have agreed to let the United Nations rule on ...

Carbon Footprints Of Top 100 Metro Areas Researched By Brookings

Large metro areas offer greater energy and carbon efficiency than nonmetropolitan areas, and metro areas have development patterns that show promise for reducing carbon emissions, according to a new report (PDF) from The Brookings ...

Yahoo Wants First LEED-Gold Data Center In California

Yahoo is leasing a corporate data center in a Digital Realty Trust data center which the companies hope will meet LEED Gold certification standards, SunHerald.com reports. DRT was the first company in ...

First USPS Corporate VP Of Sustainability Named

The United States Postal Service appointed 33-year USPS veteran Sam Pulcrano as the agency's first corporate VP of sustainability, DMNews reports. Pulcrano will be responsible for coordinating all of the agency's environmental ...

GE Reports On Progress Of Ecomagination, Sets New Goals

GE has announced the expansion of its "ecomagination" strategy, committing to reduce its global water use by 20 percent by 2012. GE also reported that revenues from its environmental portfolio topped ...

ComEd To Offer Energy Efficiency Incentives

Commonwealth Edison and Ameren will announce an $84-million, three-year effort to encourage the wise use of electricity among commercial and industrial consumers of electricity in the Chicago-area, the Chicago Tribune reports. The ...

States, Others Sue U.S. Government Over Smog Rules

Eleven states and other plaintiffs, including the District of Columbia, the city of New York and Pennsylvania's department of environmental protection, have filed a suit against the EPA in an effort to ...

Delayed Flights Consumed 740 Million Additional Gallons Of Jet Fuel In 2007

Delayed flights in 2007 consumed about 740 million additional gallons of jet fuel totaling $1.6 billion extra in fuel bills and emitted 7.07 million metric tons of CO2, according to a new report from ...