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USPS Energy Use Down 9% From 2005 to 2008

In its first-ever sustainability report, the U.S. Postal Service showed a decrease in total energy use of 9 percent from 2005 to ...

USPS to Cut GHG Emissions 20%, Energy Use 30%

The U.S. Postal Service voluntarily conducted an inventory of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to establish a baseline for future annual evaluations to help meet ...

U.S. Postal Service Earns Top Environmental Award

The U.S. Postal service has won the first Environmental Achievement of the Year award presented by Postal Technology International magazine, thanks to several sustainable initiatives ...

USPS Unveils NYC’s Biggest Green Roof

Aimed at saving energy and reducing pollution runoff, the U.S. Postal Service has unveiled its first and New York City's largest green roof on top of ...

Federal And State Governments Look to Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Several U.S. senators are pushing the drive toward alternative fuel vehicles through legislation as one way to reduce the U.S. government's dependence on oil while some ...

CFL Bulbs Sold in Mail-ready Recycling Container

One of the few knocks on compact fluourescent lightbulbs has been the fact that they contain mercury and are not easily recyclable and therefore must be ...

Greener Computing Saves USPS $2.25M

The U.S. Postal Service says it saved more than $2.25 million in the last fiscal year due to greener computing initiatives such as server consolidation and recycling ink cartridges. Over the past ...

Green IT in 2008

Ted Samson of InfoWorld looks at some of this year's green tech trends that he predicts will spill over in 2009, PCWorld reports. 1. Modular datacenters evolved IBM, Google, Sun, Rackable ...

92% Of Fed’s Alt-Fuel Fleet Runs On Standard Gasoline

Over the past 16 years, the federal government's EPAct has invested billions of dollars building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles with the hope that the fleet would serve as an ...

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

Postmaster General John Potter has called on employees to unplug, turn off lights, close doors, and become personally responsible for conservation. Potter announced a year-long campaign to increase awareness and energy conservation. ...

Intel Among Performance Track Members Setting Tougher Enviro Goals

John Deere and Intel have joined 40 new members in setting tougher environmental regulations as part of EPA's National Environmental Performance Track program. Dallas, another new member, intends to reduce water ...

Postal Service Wants To Green 90% Of Fleet

The U.S. Postal Service is participating in Project Driveway to identify new technologies in hopes of replacing almost 90 percent, or 195,000 of its delivery fleet with non-petroleum fueled vehicles. ...

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 ...

USPS, Clover Launch Free E-Waste Recycling Program

The U.S. Postal Service has launched a pilot program that lets customers recycle small electronics (PDAs, Blackberries, digital cameras, iPods and MP3 players) and inkjet cartridges by mailing them free of charge....

Alcoa, Shell, 52 Others Named Founding Reporters Of Climate Registry

Fifty-four organizations, some governmental, have been named Founding Reporters of the The Climate Registry. As Founding Reporters, they have voluntarily pledged to measure, independently verify and publicly report their GHG emissions. The Climate Registry ...

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