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Kettle Chips Sustainability Initiatives

Kettle Chips Sustainability Initiatives
News PKG for Oregon News on Kettle Chips and Sustainable Businesses You ...

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses
College students are demanding that schools purchase regional produce, AdAge reports. That's forced major food-service companies to look ...

Biofuels May Contribute To Climate Change

Biofuels May Contribute To Climate Change
A new study says that the widespread use of ethanol could cause twice as many GHG emissions as ...

Bioplastics A Rising Star in Clean Tech Industry

Bioplastics A Rising Star in Clean Tech Industry
Konarka Technologies is one of a handful of bioplastics startups that is catching some attention. A ...

The Future of Sustainable Fashion

The Future of Sustainable Fashion
In wondering about the future of sustainable fashion, author Kate Fletcher comments that over 20 major brands ...

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel
Dole Fresh Vegetables Company, a division of Dole Food, announced that it has converted 95 pieces of its ...

States Petition EPA on GHG of Nonroad Engines

States Petition EPA on GHG of Nonroad Engines
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a petition to the EPA asking it to adopt GHG ...

Bordeaux To Measure Wine’s CO2 Footprint

Bordeaux To Measure Wine’s CO2 Footprint
The Bordeaux Wine Board (CIVB) is launching a project to measure the GHG the region's industry is producing. ...

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site
Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants ...

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report
Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report. "The process of compiling information for this report has taught ...

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy
In Texas, Panda Ethanol is nearing completion of the first-ever manure fired ethanol plant in the world, Reuters reports. The world's first ...

U.K. Scientists Say Biofuels May Not Cut CO2

U.K. Scientists Say Biofuels May Not Cut CO2
The U.K. Royal Society has issued a report claiming that the effort to increase the use of biofuels may not result ...

Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy

Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy
A new initiative from Energy Trust of Oregon could enable the state's 320 dairy farms to become generators of renewable power for ...

Heinz Releases 2007 CSR Report

Heinz Releases 2007 CSR Report
Heinz has released its 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. On the green side, Heinz says it is promoting sustainability initiatives through ...

ADM, Bayer, Daimler Team Up On Jatropha Biodiesel

ADM, Bayer, Daimler Team Up On Jatropha Biodiesel
Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bayer CropScience AG and Daimler AG have announced plans to explore jointly the potential for a biodiesel ...

Organic Valley Churns Up ‘Pasture Butter’

Organic Valley Churns Up ‘Pasture Butter’
Organic Valley is marketing 'Pasture Butter' made from the milk of cows pasturing from May through September.  "Throughout history, summer butter ...

GM’s Wagoner: U.S. Needs 15,000 More Ethanol Stations

GM’s Wagoner: U.S. Needs 15,000 More Ethanol Stations
The U.S. needs more stations that sell ethanol, claims GM CEO Rick Wagoner in this article.  Currently, there are about 1400 ...

EcoFashion Gaining Attention

EcoFashion Gaining Attention
Sustainable clothing, or ecofashion, is not only making it onto the catwalks in the fashion capitals, it's also helping support local farmers, ...

ECC Completes Manure Lagoon Cover Installation

ECC Completes Manure Lagoon Cover Installation
The Environmental Credit Corporation has completed installation on the first of two projected manure lagoon covers at a dairy farm ...

Citigroup Says Energy Bill Will Raise Ethanol Prices

Citigroup Says Energy Bill Will Raise Ethanol Prices
Citigroup has released a report that claims the energy bill passed early in December by Congress will raise ethanol ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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