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Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building

Blue Sun First Energy Co. Headquartered In LEED Platinum Building
Blue Sun Biodiesel is the first energy company headquartered in a LEED Platinum certified office building, of which there are 26 in ...

Sustainability Is Watchword for Biomass Industry

Sustainability Is Watchword for Biomass Industry
Sustainability was on the minds of many of today's speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference ...

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel
CNN has an interesting video on Vertigro. Glen kertz grows algae in bags suspended in a greenhouse. Oil is extracted and turned ...

E85 Fuels 2008 American Le Mans Series

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 ...

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies
The Chemical industry places 9 out of 10 in Covalence's EthicalQuote ranking (PDF), ahead of Oil & Gas. In 2007, ...

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz

RAN Ambushes ADM’s Woertz
At WSJ's ECO:nomics conference, the Rainforest Action Network ambushed Patricia Woertz, chairman, president and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland over ADM's use ...

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference
The Wall Street Journal held its CEO-level "ECO:nomics - Creating Environmental Capital" conference in California last week. Here are ...

Continental, Boeing, GE To Partner On Biofuel Flight

Continental, Boeing, GE To Partner On Biofuel Flight
Continental Airlines, Boeing and GE Aviation have announced plans to conduct a biofuels demonstration flight in the first half ...

Virgin Flies On Biofuel

Virgin Flies On Biofuel
Virgin Atlantic has flown one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets on biofuel from London Heathrow to Amsterdam. The ...

LifeLine Snags IndyCar’s Official Ethanol Supplier Sponsorship

LifeLine Snags IndyCar’s Official Ethanol Supplier Sponsorship
LifeLine Foods has become the official supplier of ethanol used in all IndyCar Series cars ...

Biofuels May Contribute To Climate Change

Biofuels May Contribute To Climate Change
A new study says that the widespread use of ethanol could cause twice as many GHG emissions as ...

GM Wants Half Of Its U.S. Cars To Run On Ethanol By 2012

GM Wants Half Of Its U.S. Cars To Run On Ethanol By 2012
GM plans to have half of its U.S. cars running on ethanol by 2012, AP reports (via Reuters). ...

Does GM Live Up To The Green Claims Of Its Super Bowl Ads?

Does GM Live Up To The Green Claims Of Its Super Bowl Ads?
Has GM really become the green car company its Super Bowl ads claimed? That's the question Rick Newman ...

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel
Dole Fresh Vegetables Company, a division of Dole Food, announced that it has converted 95 pieces of its ...

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow
The vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future, according to ...

EU Sets Emissions Targets

EU Sets Emissions Targets
The European Commission set new emissions targets and called on EU members to increase their use of ...

Safeway To Run Entire Fleet On Biodiesel

Safeway To Run Entire Fleet On Biodiesel
Safeway says it will be the first major retailer to make its entire fleet of trucks operate on biodiesel fuels. ...

GM Wants 10,000 More E85 Retail Locations

GM Wants 10,000 More E85 Retail Locations
Mary Beth Stanek, energy and environment director for GM, said that over the next two or three years, her company will work ...

U.K. Scientists Say Biofuels May Not Cut CO2

U.K. Scientists Say Biofuels May Not Cut CO2
The U.K. Royal Society has issued a report claiming that the effort to increase the use of biofuels may not result ...

ADM, Bayer, Daimler Team Up On Jatropha Biodiesel

ADM, Bayer, Daimler Team Up On Jatropha Biodiesel
Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bayer CropScience AG and Daimler AG have announced plans to explore jointly the potential for a biodiesel ...

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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

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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