Archive for June, 2008
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
If current laws and policies remain the same, world energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent by 2030, according to U.S. government energy statistics released in "International Energy Outlook 2008" by the ...
Con Ed Using More Biofuel, Hybrids
Con Edison is increasing the use of biodiesel fuel in its truck fleet and is replacing 50 of its smaller vehicles with hybrids in 2008, the company announced. The company says using ...
Carbon Could Become Largest Commodity Market
The carbon market could become the largest commodity market, the Financial Times reports. "Even with conservative assumptions, this could be a $2 trillion futures market in relatively short order," according to ...
Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification
Dell says it's the first server provider to achieve 80 Plus Gold-certification for a server power supply. Dell says its new power supply meets July 2009 Climate Savers targets for servers ahead ...
Dow Raising Prices, Again
Dow Chemical says it is raising the prices of its products in July even more than the increases it announced in May -- by as much as an additional 25 ...
Greenpeace Co-Founder Opposes Former Colleagues On PVC
In an op-ed published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace who is now chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies in Vancouver, disagrees with his former ...
Credit Suisse Adopts The Carbon Principles
Credit Suisse announced that it has adopted The Carbon Principles -- climate change guidelines for lenders to power companies in the U.S. Under the Carbon Principles, Credit Suisse says it will ...
High Energy Prices May Give Green Products Edge
More companies are cashing in on the difference in price between products made with recycled materials and those made with more fossil fuel content, The Wall Street Journal reports. When there is ...
Virgin’s Branson Says Airlines, Other Industries Should Pay
Virgin chairman Richard Branson says he is willing to pay a carbon tax on his aviation business, Business Week reports. He said carbon emission-heavy industries, including the airline, shipping and coal industries, should pay the ...
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
"... companies ... need to focus less on the [CSR] report and more on the reporting, conceiving of it as a continuous activity that is as critical to running the business as it is to ...
P&G, Others Spending Big Bucks On Energy Efficiency
Efforts by companies to trim energy are increasingly focusing on downsizing office and manufacturing space, retrofitting older systems with the latest technologies, or locking in utility rates through long-term contracts with suppliers, ...
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
U.S. consumers are more familiar with advanced propulsion systems compared to a year ago, with turbo gasoline direct injection, direct injection diesel and hybrid electric vehicles the best known systems, according to a new ...
Cascades Buys RECs
Cascades will offset all the electricity used to manufacture Cascades' North River brand of commercial towels and tissues for restrooms with wind-generated energy. The company says it is the first EPA Green ...
Campaign Urges Clorox To Offer Brita Filter Recycling
A campaign to get Clorox to implement a water filter recycling program similar to Brita's in Europe has collected 6,267 signatures, CNet News.com reports. The petition urges Clorox to redesign its Brita ...
Home Depot Says It Will Save $16 Million By Switching To CFLs
Home Depot has announced (PDF) a free in-store, consumer CFL bulb recycling program at all of its 1,973 stores in the U.S. It also announced that it expects to save $16 million ...
Tokyo To Pass Cap-And-Trade Emissions Plan
Tokyo is the first city in Japan to pass legislation that, by fall of 2010, will require a cap-and-trade scheme for emissions from 1,300 of the biggest polluters there that are responsible ...
DOE Plans $1.3 Billion CCS Investment Under Restructured FutureGen
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement to invest in multiple commercial-scale Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle or other clean coal power plants with cutting-edge carbon capture and ...
Carbon Trust Launches Carbon Reduction Certification Program
The Carbon Trust has launched a new green standard that requires an organization to measure, manage and reduce its carbon footprint and make reductions year-on-year. The Carbon Trust Standard requires organizations ...
Mazda To Increase Fuel Efficiency 30% By 2015
Through new engine technology and lighter materials Mazda says it plans to increase the fuel efficiency of its vehicles by 30 percent over the next seven years, sportscarsfans.com reports. The company says ...
Ray Anderson On Sustainability At Interface
At the World Food Business Summit, Ray Anderson, founder & chairman of Interface, spoke about sustainability with Forum Magazine.
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miggs on European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990
"Yet another example of the potential of combined heat & power to transform..."
Stevenson on News Corp. Taps Hara for Energy Efficiency, Environmental Management
"All of us should think of ways to save energy now. It is not a myth,..."
Trade Association on Trade Group on EPA Chemical Regs: ‘If Everything is a Priority, Then Nothing is a Priority’
"Seriously… that..."
Gary Markowitz on Supermarkets Tackle Emissions Reductions, Fuel Efficiency
"Supermarkets waste over 10 percent of their energy through improper..."
peter in ireland on Ontario May Follow California’s Lead on TV Energy Efficiency
"Governor Schwarzenegger is shooting himself in the foot! 1...."
Environmental Leader on S. America Takes Most Urgent View of Copenhagen Talks
"The survey respondents (the PDF report mentions 4,000 respondents in 38..."
Jake on UPS Trying New Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
"A point of clarification: the Reuters press release referenced herein reports that 20 UPS will purchase..."