Conservation

Obama Admin Unveils Energy-Efficiency Efforts, Investments

President Barack Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu have announced new plans to drive energy efficiency and save American consumers billions of dollars per ...

Microsoft Launches Hohm, Enters Home Energy Management Business

Designed to help consumers lower their energy bills and reduce their impact on the environment, Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a new online application, Microsoft Hohm, that ...

Aveda Touts Rainforest Connection

Aveda President Dominique Conseil discusses rainforests and climate change. He calls for people and businesses to sign up ...

Greenpeace Says Big Brands Destroying Rainforest

A three-year investigation by Greenpeace into Brazil's cattle industry shows that the expansion of the cattle sector is driving the deforestation of the Amazon ...

For Aviation, LEDs Pop Up on Wingtips, Landing Strips

Up to 5,000 new Airbus A320 aircraft will be equipped with more efficient and longer-life LED lighting on the wingtips. The deal between Honeywell -- maker ...

AMA Prescribes Sustainable Food Chain

The American Medical Association (AMA) has approved a new policy that supports a healthy and sustainable food chain within healthcare systems at a recent AMA meeting ...

Clean Water Restoration Act Gains Detractors

Advocacy groups representing utilities, industry, agriculture and landowners are mounting an offensive against the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act, which is coming up for committee vote ...

First Carbon Footprint, Now Forest Footprint?

The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project in the UK will run in parallel to the Carbon Disclosure Project, with the aim to get corporations to ...

Business Moguls Aid Rainforest Project

The Rainforest Project launched by Great Britain's Prince Charles has gained the support of some key business executives. Richard Bronson, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin, and ...

Dow Corning Adopts Eco ‘Megatrend’ Strategy

Dow Corning is shifting its focus to more research and development of "solutions linked to global megatrends such as the drive for efficiency, increased focus on ...

Wal-Mart Reduces Carbon Emissions/$1M Sold to 53 Tons

[Editors note: A previous headline mischaracterized Wal-Mart's global emissions based on erroneous information from the chart above from the Wal-Mart report.] While seeing an overall rise in ...

Ingersoll Rand Reduces Water, Energy, Material Use

Ingersoll Rand, a global diversified industrial company, is providing environmental performance metrics from its operations worldwide for the first time in its 2008 sustainability report, which ...

Tesco Shifting Away from Packaging Weight Reduction Goal

Tesco's new corporate responsibility report signals a change in direction for reducing the environmental impact of packaging in its stores. In recent years the retailer has ...

In Pharma Sustainability, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson Rate High

On a scale of 1 to 100, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are the only pharmaceutical companies to rate above 70 in a recent survey of ...

Coca-Cola, Stater Bros. Help Reforest California State Parks

A public-private partnership between California State Parks, Stater Bros. Supermarkets and the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Southern California has raised $600,000 to replant more than 1 ...

Water Efficiency to Become Critical in Green Building Designs

Over the next five years, water efficiency and conservation will become critical factors in green design, construction and product selection, according to McGraw-Hill Construction's latest ...

Save Money by Monitoring Resource Consumption

Startup Hara Software Inc. has rolled out its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that can help companies save millions of dollars by enabling them to monitor and manage ...

Hawaiian Airlines, Rolls Royce Partner on Fuel-efficient Planes

The aviation industry is working on fuel conservation measures as a key way to reduce carbon emissions and costs with many airlines teaming up with technology ...

Toronto to get Mega-green Office Complex

The sprawling former headquarters of Sears Canada is about to undergo one of the biggest green building retrofits on record in North America. The government of Ontario, ...

Renewable Energy Standard May Save $200B In Annual Energy

Energy efficiency and renewable energy standards could save U.S. consumers $200 billion a year by 2030. There also is an equal opportunity for the commercial and industrial ...