November, 2008
Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%
Xerox Corp.'s announced it will be installing six 25,000 gallon tanks at its EA toner plant in Webster, N.Y. The installations are preparation for the production of Ultra Low-Melt EA Toner, ...
Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores
Wal-Mart has signed a four-year agreement with Duke Energy to supply up to 15 percent of the retailer's total energy load for about 360 Texas Wal-Mart stores and other facilities using ...
Greenbuild Conference News Roundup
The Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is currently underway. More than 26,000 people packed the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center yesterday for the first day. Here are some snippets from ...
Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans
Hyundai Motor America and Carbonfund.org unveiled the Genesis Forest Project at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show and announced that the venture will offset the entire first year of emissions for ...
Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
The value of green building construction starts was up from $10 billion in 2005 to $36-$49 billion in 2008, and could triple by 2013, reaching $96-$140 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction's Green Outlook 2009: ...
Xcel Stores Wind Energy Using Giant Batteries
Xcel Energy is experimenting with gigantic batteries to store and provide power when it's either too windy or too calm. Xcel's battery unit is expected to be fully on line next spring, ...
Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition
Five major U.S. companies are calling for congressional action on climate change and clean energy. Nike, Levi Strauss, Starbucks, Sun Microsystems, and Timberland launched a new business coalition called Business for ...
Biomimicry Design Database AskNature.org Launched
Autodesk is sponsoring the Biomimicry Institute's AskNature.org, a biomimicry database that features biology-inspired design strategies. The free online library is organized by function and uses illustration to explain the designs.
For ...
Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency
The Green Grid announced support for the recently-released European Commission's Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency.
The Code of Conduct is a voluntary commitment of European companies, and aims to ...
Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits
Best Buy has started selling renewable energy credits at 1,000 of its stores.
The “Green Your Phone” product is loaded with 500 kilowatts of certified RECs - from Renewable Choice Energy - the ...
Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target
The Aluminum Association is working on an industry wide effort to increase the industry’s recycling rate for used aluminum beverage cans to 75% by 2015. This is the same percentage Alcoa announced as ...
Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives
A recent Yahoo! Green study found that while 77 percent of consumers describe themselves as “green” - actively living their lives conscious of their health and environment – these green consumers have ...
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Boston Consulting Group, on behalf of Global e-Sustainability Initiative, has developed a U.S.-focused analysis of Smart 2020 – a study of the information communication technology sector’s growing significance for climate change – ...
Millipore Unveils Its First Biodegradable Bioplastic Product
Millipore Corp. unveiled the EcoStand tube holder, the company's first bioplastic product which is also biodegradable and compostable.
The company says the EcoStand device is made from a corn-based plastic resin rather ...
‘Heat Wheel’ Cools Data Centers, Cuts Energy Bills
Rich Miller writes on Data Center Knowledge about the “heat wheel,” a new approach to data center cooling which Miller says is likely to gain a higher profile from an upcoming ...
California Clean Tech Open Awards
Video from the California Clean Tech Open, which announced six category winners dor its 2008 competition earlier this month. The award winners will each receive a $100,000 "start-up in a box" package to assist them ...
Panasonic Eyes Sanyo’s Green Tech in Takeover Bid
Panasonic is planning to take over its rival Sanyo Electric. The deal would create one of the world's largest electronics makers, but Panasonic is not in it for Sanyo's gadgets. Instead, Panasonic ...
Tips On Greening Your Business
As part of NBC Universal's “Green Week,” its affiliate CNBC published a piece on greening businesses.
Here are some tips:
1. Offer flexible employee commuter options
Encourage staff to give up cars by ...
New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
