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Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas
As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the ...

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 ...

Intel Tops EPA’s List of Green Power Purchasers

Intel Tops EPA’s List of Green Power Purchasers
Intel announced it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates, making ...

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 ...

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy
In Texas, Panda Ethanol is nearing completion of the first-ever manure fired ethanol plant in the world, Reuters reports. The world's first ...

Georgia Power Gets Greener

Georgia Power Gets Greener
Georgia Power has signed its fifth deal with a renewable power producer, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle.  The 20 year deal ...

Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy

Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy
A new initiative from Energy Trust of Oregon could enable the state's 320 dairy farms to become generators of renewable power for ...

67% Of Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Power

67% Of Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Power
Sixty-seven percent of consumers polled across six countries - Australia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States - ...

Wal-Mart Looks At Investing In Power Plants To Get Cheap Green Energy

Wal-Mart Looks At Investing In Power Plants To Get Cheap Green Energy
Wal-Mart has faced criticism at the Bali conference for only installing solar panels on 22 of its supercenters, representing only one percent ...

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

Juan Enriquez: Why Can’t We Grow New Energy?

Juan Enriquez: Why Can’t We Grow New Energy?
Juan Enriquez offers a glimpse of some ground-breaking research to explore the potential of bioenergy. Our current energy sources -- coal, ...

Direct Marketer’s Recycle Bins Save $500,000 Per Year

Direct Marketer’s Recycle Bins Save $500,000 Per Year
Direct mail and marketing firm PEP-Direct says it will save approximately $500,000 a year working with International Paper Products Corp. ...

Frito-Lay Plans Net-Zero Plant

Frito-Lay Plans Net-Zero Plant
Frito-Lay wants its Casa Grande plant to become a net zero facility, The New York Times reports. The plan has the ...

Dow Powers Manufacturing Facility With Landfill Gas

Dow Powers Manufacturing Facility With Landfill Gas
The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority located in Dalton, Georgia and Dow Chemical are constructing a landfill gas collection system to power a ...

Global Energy Roadmap Published

Global Energy Roadmap Published
The InterAcademy Council released a report today commissioned by the governments of Brazil and China identifying and detailing the scientific consensus ...

Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030

Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030
Morgan Stanley estimates that global sales from clean energy sources like like wind, solar and geothermal could reach $1 trillion a year ...

Cheaper Methane Loses Out To Prettier Wind And Solar

Cheaper Methane Loses Out To Prettier Wind And Solar
The Tennessee Valley Authority says it could generate more alternative energy for less cost, if only the public wasn't so enamored ...

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies
AlwaysOn has released a list of private greentech companies that it feels are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, ...

Companies Find Creative Ways To Make Own Power

Companies Find Creative Ways To Make Own Power
Massachusetts businesses - from small markets to retail giants - are trying to gain control over soaring energy costs by producing it ...

WM To Spend $400 Million On Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facilities

WM To Spend $400 Million On Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facilities
Waste Management Inc. is rolling out an initiative over the next five years that will create an additional 60 renewable energy ...

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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
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

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

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

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

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

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

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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