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Archive for May, 2008

Google Earth Releases Animated Global Warming Map

Google Earth Releases Animated Global Warming Map
Google's Climate Change in Our World has created an animated map of the earth from space that illustrates ...

34% Of Biz Travelers Seek Out Green Lodgings

34% Of Biz Travelers Seek Out Green Lodgings
U.S. business travelers are increasingly making daily choices to reduce their environmental impact, and they have specific expectations about the green practices ...

Green Consumer Electronics From Greener Gadgets

Green Consumer Electronics From Greener Gadgets
An overview of some portable, renewable energy powered electricity generating gadgets shown at Greener Gadgets 2008....

New Jersey Mandates New Regs For Chemical Plants

New Jersey Mandates New Regs For Chemical Plants
New Jersey environmental officials have mandated regular reviews for safety upgrades at the 89 most dangerous chemical plants, oil ...

CHEP Gives Employees $2K For Buying Hybrids

CHEP Gives Employees $2K For Buying Hybrids
A program of CHEP USA gives up to $2,000 to employees who purchase hybrid cars and trucks, Mobile Logistics ...

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Exxon Faces Shareholder Rebellion Over Global Warming

Exxon Faces Shareholder Rebellion Over Global Warming
Four U.K.-based investors and a British proxy advisory firm joined a group of dissident shareholders calling for an independent ...

Pitney Bowes Making Green Strides

Pitney Bowes Making Green Strides
Over the past two years, Pitney Bowes' energy task force has been responsible for projects that have eliminated more ...

Fujitsu Monitor Uses No Energy In Idle Mode

Fujitsu Monitor Uses No Energy In Idle Mode
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world's first monitor that requires no electricity when in idle mode, RedOrbit ...

Green Planning Tool Launched By NRDC

Green Planning Tool Launched By NRDC
A Green Planning tool from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greening Advisor, is being billed as a Web-based ...

Canada Post Educates Marketers On ‘Responsible’ Direct Mail

Canada Post Educates Marketers On ‘Responsible’ Direct Mail
Already a supporter of reducing junk mail with its eco-friendly Consumer Choice option that reduces waste and clutter, Canada ...

Upward Trend In National Energy Efficiency Market

Upward Trend In National Energy Efficiency Market
Energy efficiency can make a larger contribution towards stabilizing energy prices and reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- should we choose to fully ...

Fast Food Packaging Target Of Dogwood Campaign

Fast Food Packaging Target Of Dogwood Campaign
Earlier this year, the Dogwood Alliance released a report -- “The 2008 Fast Food Packaging Report (PDF)” and a new website ...

Point Carbon Launches Database Of North American Carbon Projects

Point Carbon Launches Database Of North American Carbon Projects
Point Carbon introduced Carbon Project Manager North America (CPMNA) -- which it describes as the first web-based, analytical ...

Windtricity Continues To Generate Partners

Windtricity Continues To Generate Partners
Raba-Kistner Consultants, of San Antonio, Texas, and Helotes County are the latest to sign up as CPS Windtricity Business Partners. Raba-Kistner has agreed ...

Coal Mine Turns Methane Into Emissions Credits

Coal Mine Turns Methane Into Emissions Credits
A coal mine in southern Poland is earning CO2 emissions offsets by converting excess methane into heating fuel and electricity and selling ...

Toyota Prototype Maps The Way For Green Dealerships

Toyota Prototype Maps The Way For Green Dealerships
By 2011, Toyota Motor Corp. expects to have 100 environmentally friendly dealerships -- or just under 10 percent of ...

Conferencing Leads Green Business Practices

Conferencing Leads Green Business Practices
InterCall recently conducted a survey where individuals were asked what their companies are doing to reduce the size of its carbon footprint. ...

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project
Members of Waco-based Mars Snackfood and representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unwrapped the candy company's first ...

Avis To Print Less, Save More Trees

Avis To Print Less, Save More Trees
In response requests from its customers, Avis is discontinuing the printing and distribution of scores of customer brochures and other collateral marketing ...

Fireman’s Fund Launches Green Coverage For Manufacturers

Fireman’s Fund Launches Green Coverage For Manufacturers
Five months after announcing it would offer green homeowners insurance, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. has announced a ...

Today's News

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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