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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 ...

Fujifilm To Power Manufacturing Facility With Methane

Fujifilm To Power Manufacturing Facility With Methane
Fujifilm will begin using methane gas from a South Carolina landfill to power its nearby manufacturing center, CNET reports. By ...

Senate Approves Energy Bill

Senate Approves Energy Bill
The Senate approved energy legislation that would increase fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles, provide tax incentives for development of alternative fuels and require ...

Tokyo Electric Buys Reductions From Arauco Biomass Project In Chile

Tokyo Electric Buys Reductions From Arauco Biomass Project In Chile
Tokyo Electric Power Company is buying emissions reductions from a Biomass Clean Development Mechanism Project in Chile being sold by ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Low Carbon Accelerator, Acciona, Impax Lead Top 50 Low-Carbon Pioneers

Low Carbon Accelerator, Acciona, Impax Lead Top 50 Low-Carbon Pioneers
CNBC European Business has rolled out its list of the top 50 low-carbon pioneers (via TreeHugger). London's Low Carbon Accelerator ...

Recent RFPs

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

Carbon Offset Companies Criticized, TerraPass Responds

Carbon Offset Companies Criticized, TerraPass Responds
A close look at several carbon offset transactions - including those involving the Oscar presenters and Vail Resorts - reveals that some deals ...

Small Business Energy Efficiency Quiz

Small Business Energy Efficiency Quiz
With the right upgrades, the typical small business can cut its energy bill up to 30 percent and see a payback on ...

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020
EU leaders agreed Friday that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power sources by 2020, AP reports. ...

Smithfield Joins CCX, Will Cut Emissions 6% by 2010

Smithfield Joins CCX, Will Cut Emissions 6% by 2010
Smithfield Foods is joining the Chicago Climate Exchange and has committed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by a ...

New Leaf Paper Manufactures with 100% Renewable Energy

New Leaf Paper Manufactures with 100% Renewable Energy
All of New Leaf Paper inventory items are now being manufactured with renewable energy, making it the first paper company in the U.S. ...

Johnson Controls Launches New Renewable Energy Services

Johnson Controls Launches New Renewable Energy Services
Johnson Controls is expanding its business services to include the design, installation and servicing of geothermal, solar, biomass, wind and other ...

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 ...

BP to Provide $500 Million Grant to Energy Biosciences Institute

BP to Provide $500 Million Grant to Energy Biosciences Institute
BP's Energy Biosciences Institute will work with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois to research the creation of renewable energy. BP ...

NFL Plants Trees, Buys RECs & Feels Heat

NFL Plants Trees, Buys RECs & Feels Heat
The National Football League is planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida in an effort to tackle the the Super ...

BMW Among EPA’s Landfill Methane Partner Award Winners

BMW Among EPA’s Landfill Methane Partner Award Winners
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Landfill Methane Outreach Program has assisted in developing over 325 landfill gas projects in the past ...

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction
President Bush set a goal of reducing U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next 10 years during last night's ...

GE, AES to Develop Carbon Emission Reduction Projects & Sell Offsets

GE, AES to Develop Carbon Emission Reduction Projects & Sell Offsets
AES and GE Energy Financial Services are creating a partnership to develop greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in the ...

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Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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