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Lexmark Reports Reduced GHG Emissions, Increased Energy And Water Savings

Lexmark Reports Reduced GHG Emissions, Increased Energy And Water Savings
Lexmark's international headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky, reduced its GHG emissions 11 percent in 2006 from the year before, according to the company's ...

IEA: $45 Trillion Needed To Cut CO2 Emissions 50% By 2050

IEA: $45 Trillion Needed To Cut CO2 Emissions 50% By 2050
The International Energy Agency says that it will take $45 trillion in additional clean technology investments between now and 2050 in order ...

Marriott Flips Switch On Tri-Generation Plant

Marriott Flips Switch On Tri-Generation Plant
The New York Marriott Downtown has flipped the switch on a "microturbine farm." The installation of two hotel owner-funded ...

Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance

Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance
Toyota has developed a new fuel cell (zero pollution) hybrid powered by hydrogen and electricity that can travel more ...

HP Unveils Ambitious Data Center Project, More Efficient Solar Energy System

HP Unveils Ambitious Data Center Project, More Efficient Solar Energy System
HP's research arm HP Labs has announced new sustainability research initiatives the company says will include an industry-first ...

Timberland Gets First LEED Gold For Mall-Based Store

Timberland Gets First LEED Gold For Mall-Based Store
The USGBC has awarded LEED Gold certification for Timberland's Peabody, Mass. store location, and LEED Silver certification for Timberland's ...

Hilton Sets Target Of 20% CO2 Reduction By 2014

Hilton Sets Target Of 20% CO2 Reduction By 2014
Hilton Hotels has announced sustainability targets it aims to reach by 2014. They include: Reducing energy consumption from direct operations ...

New Belgium Brews Up Sustainable Beer

New Belgium Brews Up Sustainable Beer
Greg Owsley, Chief Branding Officer of the New Belgium Brewery, talks about his company's achievements in sustainability, and the insights gained from ...

TerraPass Launches Customizable Offset Portfolio

TerraPass Launches Customizable Offset Portfolio
TerraPass has announced the first version of a feature through which customers buying carbon offsets can direct the company's efforts to ...

HSBC HQ Goes Solar

HSBC HQ Goes Solar
As part of its $90 million Global Environmental Efficiency Program launched last year, HSBC 's Canary Wharf office tower ...

Cox Reports Progress On ‘Cox Conserves’

Cox Reports Progress On ‘Cox Conserves’
Part of its "Cox Conserves" program, which Cox Communications announced in 2007, is reducing the company's energy consumption by ...

Green Panties Hitting U.K. Streets

Green Panties Hitting U.K. Streets
The green underwear produced at a new lingerie factory in Thulhiriya, Sri Lanka -- perhaps the world's first carbon-neutral ...

GE Reports On Progress Of Ecomagination, Sets New Goals

GE Reports On Progress Of Ecomagination, Sets New Goals
GE has announced the expansion of its "ecomagination" strategy, committing to reduce its global water use by 20 ...

ComEd To Offer Energy Efficiency Incentives

ComEd To Offer Energy Efficiency Incentives
Commonwealth Edison and Ameren will announce an $84-million, three-year effort to encourage the wise use of electricity among commercial ...

Dean Foods Methane Project To Generate Power

Dean Foods Methane Project To Generate Power
Dean Foods says that by early 2009 it will operate an anaerobic digester to capture waste from the ...

Wal-Mart To Install Canada’s Largest Rooftop Solar Energy System

Wal-Mart To Install Canada’s Largest Rooftop Solar Energy System
Wal-Mart Canada will build the country's largest rooftop solar-energy system, the Toronto Star reports. Ontario's Ministry of Research and ...

G8 Pledges ‘Strong Will’ For 50% Emissions Cuts By 2050, Sets No Mid-Term Goals

G8 Pledges ‘Strong Will’ For 50% Emissions Cuts By 2050, Sets No Mid-Term Goals
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight nations, pledged "strong political will" toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half ...

Duke Buys Up Solar Power

Duke Buys Up Solar Power
Duke Energy says it will purchase the entire electricity output of the nation's largest photovoltaic solar farm, which will ...

Rackspace Uses Biomass To Run Data Center

Rackspace Uses Biomass To Run Data Center
IT hosting company Rackspace has announced it has completed the conversion of a former warehouse into its new ...

Green Restaurant Association Working With PepsiCo Clients

Green Restaurant Association Working With PepsiCo Clients
PepsiCo Foodservice has partnered with the not-for-profit Green Restaurant Association to help PepsiCo customers become more environmentally sustainable. GRA will ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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