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Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?

Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?
There is a legitimate scientific reason for asking whether hybrid vehicles are healthy for drivers, writes Jim Motavalli, ...

Call2Recycle Reports 12% Increase In Battery Recycling

Call2Recycle Reports 12% Increase In Battery Recycling
The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation reported a twelve percent increase in collection numbers with more than 6.3 million ...

Texas Instruments, MIT Develop Energy-Efficient Microchip

Texas Instruments, MIT Develop Energy-Efficient Microchip
Texas Instrument and MIT researchers unveiled a new energy-efficient microchip that could eventually be used in cell phones, ...

Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups

Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups
Dot Hill Systems announced it has joined the Green Grid and the Storage Networking Industry Associoation Green Storage ...

AT&T Burned by Green Tech

AT&T Burned by Green Tech
On Christmas this past year at an AT&T facility in Wisconsin, a series of fires sparked by explosions of green backup batteries ...

Sprint Outlines Use Of Alternative Energy Sources

Sprint Outlines Use Of Alternative Energy Sources
Sprint has released a little information on its moves into alternative energy sources, many of which are used for backup power ...

Mayor’s Office Hopes “Every New Yorker” Will Recycle Phones With Nokia

Mayor’s Office Hopes “Every New Yorker” Will Recycle Phones With Nokia
Nokia is launching a recycling campaign with a goal to collect 100,000 unwanted mobile devices between now and America Recycles Day ...

Silicon Valley Execs Get Behind Plug-In Hybrids

Silicon Valley Execs Get Behind Plug-In Hybrids
By early next year, 100 Silicon Valley executives will be driving plug-in hybrids, The mercury news reports. That will more than ...

OfficeMax Launches New Recycling Program

OfficeMax Launches New Recycling Program
OfficeMax has launched a new recycling program through its MaxPerks membership program. The system provides customers with a system to ...

Green Transportation News Roundup

Green Transportation News Roundup
Worldchanging has released its roundup of last week's news on sustainable mobility. The top story is the Senate's debate on ...

Motel 6 Launches National Fluorescent Light Bulb and Battery Recycling Program

Motel 6 Launches National Fluorescent Light Bulb and Battery Recycling Program
Motel 6, with nearly 900 properties across the country, has rolled out what it says is the first national fluorescent light bulb and ...

Trojan Battery Gets $576,000 For Energy Efficiency Improvements

Trojan Battery Gets $576,000 For Energy Efficiency Improvements
Trojan Battery, which supplies batteries to the golf-car industry, has received a $576,627 energy rebate check to assist with its efforts to ...

Braun Floats ‘Green Grooming’ As Selling Point

Braun Floats ‘Green Grooming’ As Selling Point
Procter & Gambles' Braun Shavers says that its entire line of men's electric shaver chargers have received ENERGY STAR ...

GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius

GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius
By 2005, GM's top executives were convinced it could get sales moving again by turning around its reputation on ...

Nokia Tells Phone Users To Unplug

Nokia Tells Phone Users To Unplug
Nokia cell phones will soon prompt users to unplug phones when they're done charging. The company plans to roll out the initiative ...

Recent RFPs

Recent RFPs
April 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy  ...

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy
President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit ...

Ford Plans Escape Hybrid E85 Demos, Unveils Edge with HySeries Drive

Ford Plans Escape Hybrid E85 Demos, Unveils Edge with HySeries Drive
Ford is producing 20 demonstration Escape Hybrid E85 vehicles for use in fleets in six different states. Deliveries will begin this ...

Municipalities Place Pre-Sales Orders for Phoenix Motorcars’ EV Truck

Municipalities Place Pre-Sales Orders for Phoenix Motorcars’ EV Truck
Phoenix Motorcars has received (via The Energy Blog) 75 fleet orders from several municipalities and a utility company for its ...

Wal-Mart, ArvinMeritor Developing Hybrid Tractor Drivetrain

Wal-Mart, ArvinMeritor Developing Hybrid Tractor Drivetrain
Wal-Mart and ArvinMeritor are developing (via TreeHugger via Green Car Congress) a dual-mode, diesel-electric drivetrain for a Class ...

Today's News

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

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

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
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
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
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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