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Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?

There is a legitimate scientific reason for asking whether hybrid vehicles are healthy for drivers, writes Jim Motavalli, ...

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

Ford, Timberland Win Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards

Ford Motor Company and The Timberland Company received the top sustainability reporting awards in an international competition organized by ...

New Plugs Improve Prius MPG

Pulstar Pulse Plugs have increased the fuel economy of 2005 and 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles by 6 ...

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative

Enterprise Fleet Management, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, launched an environmental initiative designed to help its customers reduce greenhouse ...

Environmental News Snippets: Toyota, Hummer, Royal Caribbean - 4.25.08

MillionTreesNYC Announces Toyota as a New Driving Force Behind Campaign to Plant One Million Trees by 2017 MillionTreesNYC, a public-private ...

AEP Orders Hybrid Utility Trucks

American Electric Power has ordered its largest number of hybrid trucks to date - 18 International DuraStar ...

GM CEO: 2010 Volt Deadline Will Be ‘Down To The Wire’

General Motors is running "down to the wire" as it readies its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt for a ...

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL's parent says it's the ...

Enterprise Opens Green Branches

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has designated four of its locations in Atlanta "Green Branches." Hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles will make up around ...

Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off

Ford has become the first U.S. auto company to spell out how it plans to reach the goal of ...

South Lags Behind Rest Of US On Hybrid Car Interest

Fifty-nine percent of car shoppers have purchased or would consider purchasing a hybrid as their next car, according to a survey by ...

Bridgestone Firestone Runs Forklifts On Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Bridgestone Firestone's plant in Aiken County, S.C. is replacing traditional battery-powered forklifts with ones powered by hydrogen fuel ...

Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant

Ford is adding a third wind turbine at its Dagenham Diesel Centre in the UK to power the installation ...

18 States Sue EPA For Failing To Act On Greenhouse Gases

Eighteen states are suing the EPA in an attempt to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling ...

Toyota Second To None In Green Brands Survey

The top four brands seen as truly green are Toyota (9.4%) , BP (3.3%), Body Shop (3.1%), and Honda (2.7%), according ...

California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles

The California Air Resources Board has voted to lower the number of battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell ...

E85 Fuels 2008 American Le Mans Series

Reece Nanfito, senior director of marketing for the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council, talks to Green Fuels Forecast about E85 fueling most ...

Today's News

Used Fry Grease Rich Target For Grease Gangs…Seriously

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

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Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Dr. Albert Esser
Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure
Dell

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

eCommerce Goes Green

82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs

DuPont On Sustainable Packaging

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The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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