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Nissan Goes After U.S. Federal Loan
Nissan Motor Co. is the only Japanese automaker seeking a federal loan under a U.S. program for fuel-efficient vehicles. The company is vying for funds with General ...
Religare Builds Green Data Centers
Religare Enterprises Limited (REL), one of the leading financial services companies in India, is building three energy-efficient data centers. The new scalable modular data centers, built in partnership with IBM, combine high density computing and precision ...
China’s Eco-Challenges Changing Way Some Cos Do Business
Today there are pressing economic, environmental and social issues that are challenging the status quo and changing the way we do business. China may be better placed than other nations to ride out the current financial ...
Panasonic’s ‘E Floor’ Wins Award at Eco-Products 2008
The E Floor, a product developed by Panasonic Electric Works, was recently given the Chairperson's Award at the Eco-Products 2008 expo held in Tokyo, reports Green Building Elements. The E Floor is ...
South Korea To Spend $37 Billion On ‘Green’ Projects To Stimulate Employment
South Korea recently unveiled a "Green New Deal Job Creation Plan," which will put 50 trillion won ($38 billion) toward environmentally-friendly projects in an effort to boost employment, MarketWatch reports. The plan ...
Analyst: China May Soon Have World’s Biggest Solar Farm
China may soon have the world's biggest photovoltaic project, Raymond James analyst Wayne Andrews told AP (via Forbes). China Technology Development Group Corp. and Qinghai New Energy Group are planning to build ...
Weather-Related Catastrophes Push Insurance Losses to New Heights
2008 was the third most expensive year for the insurance industry due to catastrophe damage, which insurers say is attributed to climate change. Munich Re, one of the world's biggest insurers, cited ...
Japan Airlines Jumps on Carbon Offset Bandwagon
On February 3rd, Japanese airline JAL Group will start offering a carbon offset program (pdf) for passengers to voluntarily offset the CO2 gases generated by their flights. The program will ...
Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories
With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...
Asia-Pacific Leads Demand for Data Center Management Apps
Three-quarters of respondents to an IDC global poll of IT decision-makers said that benefits from cost savings, followed by corporate social responsibility (CSR) and compliance, are driving them to invest in ...
China’s Recycling Rate Plummets
China's Resource Recycling Agency says the the national recycling rate has fallen by 70 percent.
Yamaha Installs Wind, Solar Systems at Nakaze Plant
Yamaha Motor has installed both solar and wind powered generating systems at its Nakaze Plant as part of its initiatives to employ alternative energy sources to replace petroleum fuels. The company says ...
Global Hospitality Industry Taking Green Steps
Government agencies, developers, and operators in the hospitality industry have numerous opportunities to jump on the green bandwagon, found Ernst & Young in Global Hospitality Insights (pdf). Highlights from the report: In Asia, resort brands and ...
Japan Airline To Test Biofuel Flight
Japan Airlines says it will be the first Asian carrier to conduct a demonstration flight using a sustainable biofuel refined from the energy crop, camelina. The one-hour demonstration flight is planned ...
Ports of Seattle, Dalian Partner On Green Initiative
The Port of Seattle and the Port of Dalian, China have agreed to partner with other public and private sector companies on an EcoPartnership to make port terminals and infrastructures more ...
Corus Denies Plans To Move European Operations To China
Corus Group Ltd., the U.K. unit of India's Tata Steel Ltd., said newspaper reports that it may move operations to China unless European carbon emissions rules are overhauled are false. The company's spokesman ...
U.S. GHG Emissions Up 1.4% In 2007
U.S. GHG emissions increased by 1.4 percent last year, from 7.1 billion metric tons in 2006 to 7.2 billion metric tons in 2007, according a report by the Department of Energy, ...
Dell, Apple, Microsoft, HP Perceived as U.S. Green Tech Leaders
Only a few brands have achieved global green recognition, according to GreenFactor, an ongoing (see July's report here) global technology and environmental research initiative conducted by Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolfe. Consumer perception ...
Kokuyo Opens Rooftop Office To Cut CO2, Workers Get Blankets
In an effort to cut back on electricity usage and CO2 emissions, office supplies manufacturer Kokuyo Co. opened a “garden office” on the rooftop of its headquarters in Tokyo last week, Mainichi Daily News ...
HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
The CSR Asia Business Barometer 2008 (PDF) - which compares the corporate social responsibility disclosure of the 20 largest listed companies in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand – found ...
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