Archive for May, 2008
Kyocera Environment Plan Includes 44% GHG Cut By 2010 Goal
Kyocera has released its 6th Environment and Safety Promotion Plan, which encourages company-wide energy saving measures, waste reduction and other activities over the next three years. Kyocera has set a GHG reduction target of 44 ...
Heinz Plans 20% Emissions Cut, Potato Peels Play A Part
Heinz' plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2015 includes converting potato peels into biofuel at its Ontario, Ore., facility for sale and distribution. The company also announced ...
Nissan Offers Carbon Offsets With Car Purchase
Nissan has introduced a carbon offset program linked to the sale of each March Collet automobile sold in Japan. The campaign, the first of its kind in the country, allows customers to balance ...
A Mindset Everyone Can Embrace
What do carbon neutrality and competitive rowing have in common? At first glance, not much. One involves reducing or eliminating CO2 emissions through aggressive energy-saving, purchasing and offsetting initiatives, the other athletes racing against one another ...
Proposal To Split Exxon Chairman, CEO Roles Defeated
Exxon Mobil Corp. chief executive Rex Tillerson will retain the title of chairman after a shareholder proposal to split the roles, due in part to the company's failure to commit large-scale capital ...
ING Touts ‘Orange Goes Green’
This ING promo video touts the company's "Orange goes Green" environmental initiative.
Big Brands Jump On Cause Marketing Bandwagon
Mike Hess, director-global research and consumer insights for Omnicom Group's OMD, New York, says that cause marketing should not only have a positive ROI, but should generate a better return than ...
NEC Develops Energy-Saving Server
NEC is marketing a new server dubbed Eco Center. The company says it consumes up to 55 percent less power, takes up 50 percent less space and is approximately 58 percent ...
Dean Foods Methane Project To Generate Power
Dean Foods says that by early 2009 it will operate an anaerobic digester to capture waste from the farm's 4,700 dairy cows at its Big Sky Dairy in Idaho and convert ...
Apple Moving Ahead On Solar-Charged Mobile Devices
Apple has filed a patent to put solar cells on portable devices, Trade the News reports (via Forbes.com). Apple devices like the iPhone could have photovoltaic cells stacked underneath LCD touch screens, ...
Cox Communications Wants To Install Solar On Customer Roofs
Cox Communications has announced initiatives to cut energy costs that include adding solar electricity to its headquarters and communications system and increasing fuel efficiency in its fleet vehicles, the Arizona Republic ...
Wal-Mart To Install Canada’s Largest Rooftop Solar Energy System
Wal-Mart Canada will build the country's largest rooftop solar-energy system, the Toronto Star reports. Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation is contributing a $3-million forgivable loan to support a demonstration system at ...
Green Building Sector Surviving U.S. Housing Slump
The green building industry saw an estimated $12 billion in revenues last year and could top $42 billion by 2015, Venture Beat reports. The building industry is indeed going green and, despite some potential short-term ...
Kraft Distribution Center Tagged As LEED-CI Gold Facility
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has recognized an 800,000-square-foot Kraft Foods distribution center near Chicago for its advanced environmental design. ProLogis, a manager and developer of distribution facilities, completed ...
Environmental Protection – Who’s Leading?
There is a definite dichotomy in consumers' minds between current leaders in environmental protection and who should be leading. According to Natural Marketing Institute's 2007 LOHAS Consumer Trends Database, the largest gaps between perceived ...
CSR Report: Intel On Track To Reduce GHG Emissions 30% By 2010
Intel is on track to reach its goal of reducing its total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent per unit of production from 2004 through 2010, according to the company's ...
Pittsburgh Convention Center Helps Green Up City’s Image
Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings of its size in the entire ...
G8 Pledges ‘Strong Will’ For 50% Emissions Cuts By 2050, Sets No Mid-Term Goals
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight nations, pledged "strong political will" toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 but stopped short of pledging firm commitments for mid-century or mid-term ...
Global Warming Could Cost U.S. $3.8 Trillion Per Year By 2100
Doing nothing on global warming will cost the U.S. economy more than 3.6 percent of GDP -- or $3.8 trillion annually (in today’s dollars) -- by 2100. On the other hand, a detailed, bottom-up analysis ...
Honda Changes Tack On Hybrid Fit
Honda has announced plans to roll out a gas-electric hybrid version of its Fit sub-compact that will cost a couple of thousand dollars more than its gas-only counterpart, BusinessWeek reports. The new ...
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ruffie on Wind Power Investments Grow in North America
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Rod Johnson on Stimulus Package Delivers $2.4 Billion for Electric Vehicle Projects
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Charli on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
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James Beddingfield on Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests
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