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HEB Powers Stores With Wind Energy

HEB Powers Stores With Wind Energy
Texas supermarket chain HEB plans to run 46 of its stores in San Antonio and Bexar County on 10 percent windpower and ...

Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant

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 ...

Clean Energy Windfall In Texas

Clean Energy Windfall In Texas
Channel 4 News is in Roscoe, Texas where a new clean energy boom is providing hard up farmers with a real windfall. ...

SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party

SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party
Frito-Lay is planning a major ad campaign to tout that one of the factories that makes SunChips is ...

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy

Dell Powers Headquarters With Green Energy
Dell is now powering 100 percent of its 2.1 million square-foot global headquarters campus with 100 percent green power, ...

SCE To Install Solar Panels On 2 Sq Miles Of California Roofs

SCE To Install Solar Panels On 2 Sq Miles Of California Roofs
Southern California Edison will install 250 megawatts of solar panels on 65 million square feet of roofs - that's ...

Hillwood Makes Big Renewable Energy Purchase

Hillwood Makes Big Renewable Energy Purchase
Hillwood has signed a 100-percent renewable energy contract for its properties in North Texas. With the contract, Hillwood ...

P&G In Talks To Run Plant On Wind Power

P&G In Talks To Run Plant On Wind Power
Procter & Gamble has reached an agreement in principle to connect P&G's paper products manufacturing plant in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania ...

NCAA Schools Big On Environmental Initiatives

NCAA Schools Big On Environmental Initiatives
With March Madness upon us, Juice Energy has put together a list of what the leading conferences are ...

SAS Considering Campus Solar Farm

SAS Considering Campus Solar Farm
Software maker SAS is studying the feasibility of building North Carolina's biggest solar energy farm on its corporate ...

Steelcase Buys Naming Rights To Wind Farm

Steelcase Buys Naming Rights To Wind Farm
Steelcase will purchase all the renewable energy credits produced by a new 10 megawatt wind farm in Panhandle, ...

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 ...

Whole Foods Powers Store With Fuel Cell

Whole Foods Powers Store With Fuel Cell
A new Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Connecticut will be the first supermarket to generate most of its power ...

GE’s Green Marketing Results In Consumer Awareness

GE’s Green Marketing Results In Consumer Awareness
When respondents to EcoAlign's third EcoPinion Survey were shown a mix of 12 companies representing various industries and asked which they ...

China’s Solar Industry Feels The Heat

China’s Solar Industry Feels The Heat
Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co. in China's Henan Province is a green energy company that produces polysilicon for solar panels. ...

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers
Forty percent of the world's land mass has wind speeds at more than 6 m per second, according to Seattle-based 3Tier, ...

PG&E Gets Energy From Cow Manure

PG&E Gets Energy From Cow Manure
Pacific Gas and Electric and BioEnergy Solutions say that their biogas-to-pipeline injection project in Fresno County has ...

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding
Venture capitalists invested a record $3 billion in 221 "clean technology" deals worldwide in 2007, a 43 percent increase ...

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans
In his first strategy presentation as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward said the company has received little, if any, uplift ...

Green-e Climate Certifying Carbon Offsets

Green-e Climate Certifying Carbon Offsets
The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation's first independent ...

Today's News

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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