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Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers
Australian banking company Westpac will ask more than 10,000 of its suppliers to meet its new Sustainable Supply Chain ...

Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.

Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.
Down in Australia, the shop assistants' union wants laws to protect checkout operators from injury when they are forced ...

Foster’s Installs Solar Power At 6 California Wineries

Foster’s Installs Solar Power At 6 California Wineries
Foster's Wine Estates plans to install solar energy systems at six of its California wineries, including Beringer Vineyards, Asti ...

Geo-Sequestration Plant Opens In Australia

Geo-Sequestration Plant Opens In Australia
A geo-sequestration plant, capable of capturing and compressing 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide which is stored two kilometers underground, has opened in ...

Sydney Bows Earth Hour

Sydney Bows Earth Hour
Sydney kicked off Earth Hour with lights going out on the city's landmarks on Saturday night, The Sydney ...

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie's climate change practice has launched the CDM Rulebook website, an online database for the rules ...

Lightweight Wine Bottles Better For The Environment

Lightweight Wine Bottles Better For The Environment
Bottling wine in lightweight bottles can significantly reduce CO2 emissions, according to a report by the Waste & ...

Foster’s Offsets Emissions Of ‘Cascade Green’

Foster’s Offsets Emissions Of ‘Cascade Green’
Foster's is offsetting all of the carbon emissions of its new lager, Cascade Green.The company says that ...

HP Launches Carbon Offset Giveaway Promo

HP Launches Carbon Offset Giveaway Promo
HP is testing a carbon-offset giveaway promotion in Australia that gives HP LaserJet printer buyers a carbon offset ...

Australia Releases Green Marketing Guidelines

Australia Releases Green Marketing Guidelines
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released green guidelines for marketers, The Age reports. guidelines to ...

Jetstar Says Voluntary Carbon Offsets Big Success

Jetstar Says Voluntary Carbon Offsets Big Success
Jetstar says that 10 percent of people using its website have opted-in to its voluntary carbon offset program during its first ...

Qantas Plans September Takeoff For Carbon Offset Program

Qantas Plans September Takeoff For Carbon Offset Program
Qantas says that beginning in September, consumers and businesses will be able to purchase carbon credits to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, ...

Woolworths Slammed For Using Sustainable Forests Logo

Woolworths Slammed For Using Sustainable Forests Logo
Woolworths, Australia's biggest supermarket chain, has told shoppers that two of its home brand products are environmentally sustainable, but at least ...

EDS Cuts Emissions From Printing Operations 72%

EDS Cuts Emissions From Printing Operations 72%
EDS has launched a set of service offerings to support customers seeking to improve their impact on the environment by reducing carbon ...

EDS Hopes To Cut Emissions 25% With Video Conferencing

EDS Hopes To Cut Emissions 25% With Video Conferencing
Global technology services company EDS is working with Verizon Video Conferencing in an attempt to reduce its carbon emissions in ...

Saab Accused Of Greenwashing

Saab Accused Of Greenwashing
Australia's NSW Greens have complained to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, accusing Saab of making deceptive claims about its cars' greenhouse ...

Pacific Hydro Will Sell Carbon Credits From Chile Hydropower Project

Pacific Hydro Will Sell Carbon Credits From Chile Hydropower Project
Pacific Hydro, an Australian-based renewable energy producer, plans to start selling (PDF) carbon credits from a hydropower project in Chile to buyers ...

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such ...

Cadbury To Cut Emissions 50%

Cadbury To Cut Emissions 50%
Cadbury Schweppes pledged a 50 percent reduction of net absolute carbon emissions from its manufacturing sites by 2020, Food Production Daily ...

Coke, Yahoo Steal Thunder From Live Earth’s Sponsors

Coke, Yahoo Steal Thunder From Live Earth’s Sponsors
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Yahoo, and MSN have the highest awareness of any brands in connection with the upcoming Live Earth concerts, according to ...

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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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