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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 ...

Qantas To Offer Travellers Way To Offset Emissions

Qantas To Offer Travellers Way To Offset Emissions
Qantas will offer a way for travellers to pay extra to offset the carbon emissions caused by their flights, The Sydney Morning Herald ...

BP Loses Trademark Case Over Color Green

BP Loses Trademark Case Over Color Green
The High Court of Australia has dismissed a bid by BP to have the green Pantone colour 348C used in its logo ...

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy
BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, has released its revised climate change policy (PDF), ABC reports. There are four key elements to ...

New Carbon Reporting Tools Hit Market

New Carbon Reporting Tools Hit Market
A wave of new carbon reporting tools have hit the market recently, BusinessGreen blog reports. IBM unveiled an extension to its Zodiac ...

Supply Chains Clean Up Act With Carbon Emission Tracker

Supply Chains Clean Up Act With Carbon Emission Tracker
Australia's Supply Chain Consulting has released CarbonView, a system that the company says lets organizations to view and optimize their complete ...

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

Foster’s Turns Brewery Waste Into Electricity

Foster’s Turns Brewery Waste Into Electricity
Foster's is generating clean energy from brewery waste water by using sugar-consuming bacteria, AP reports. Scientists at Australia's University of Queensland ...

KPMG Australia to Go Carbon Neutral

KPMG Australia to Go Carbon Neutral
KPMG's Australian unit, which employ about 4500 staff, will be the first in the company's global network to neutralize carbon emissions resulting ...

Virgin Blue Launches Voluntary Offset Program for Passengers

Virgin Blue Launches Voluntary Offset Program for Passengers
Virgin Blue has announced a program to offset its greenhouse gas emissions, The Australian reports. It's the first carbon offset program by an ...

Australia Efficiency Standards will Squeeze Out Incandescent Light Bulbs

Australia Efficiency Standards will Squeeze Out Incandescent Light Bulbs
Australia's environmental minister says the government will use both persuasion and regulation to phase out incandescent light bulbs completely within three years, The ...

SCE Signs Largest-Ever U.S. Utility Wind Energy Contract

SCE Signs Largest-Ever U.S. Utility Wind Energy Contract
Southern California Edison has signed a wind energy contract with Alta Windpower Development, a subsidiary of Allco Financial Group of ...

Melbourne Joins CCX

Melbourne Joins CCX
The City of Melbourne is joining the Chicago Climate Exchange. Under the program, Melbourne will make a commitment to reduce its ...

IAE Predicts Global Energy Demand Up 53% by 2030

IAE Predicts Global Energy Demand Up 53% by 2030
The International Energy Agency  has released The World Energy Outlook 2006,  the latest edition of the IEA's annual flagship publication. The ...

GE Launches Ecomagination in Australia

General Electric has launched its global clean energy and water initiative - called ecomagination - in the Australian market ...

Chevron to Open Energy Tech Centers in Aberdeen, Perth

Chevron Corporation is opening energy technology centers in Aberdeen, Scotland, and Perth, Australia. The new Chevron centers are expected to open in ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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