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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 - ...

Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint

Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint
A Sao Paulo design agency, Chelles & Hayashi, aims to help companies create products that reduce the amount of raw material ...

Consumers Shop Green For Holidays (Updated)

Consumers Shop Green For Holidays (Updated)
Experts and research companies including Pricegrabber.com, Cone, and Deloitte are predicting that green holiday shopping will be hot this year. PriceGrabber.com Survey: PriceGrabber.com says ...

Hi-Tech Goes Green

Hi-Tech Goes Green
A panel of industry experts discuss the latest and greatest technologies that are going green. Including moderator Doug Merritt, Executive Vice President, ...

Live Earth Issues Final Assessment Report

Live Earth Issues Final Assessment Report
Following a ten-week audit, Live Earth has issued a final report (PDF) on the energy reduction and waste diversion efforts surrounding ...

Miller Cuts GHG Emissions 10% Per Barrel

Miller Cuts GHG Emissions 10% Per Barrel
Miller Brewing Company released its first sustainable development report (PDF) providing information on the company's "10 global sustainable development priorities" and ...

Bottled Water Manufacturers Face Uncertain Future

Bottled Water Manufacturers Face Uncertain Future
The bottled water backlash is costing beverage makers money, AdAge reports. Beverage Digest reports that retail sales of bottled water (excluding ...

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money
Wal-Mart's sustainability initiative to downsize packaging is costing manufacturers money, AdAge reports. It could cost Procter & Gamble, part ...

Costco Installing More Solar Power Systems

Costco Installing More Solar Power Systems
Costco is expanding its solar power initiative at a number of their Southern California facilities with a combined rated output of 2.4 ...

Wal-Mart To Measure Suppliers’ Energy Use

Wal-Mart To Measure Suppliers’ Energy Use
Wal-Mart will measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain, including the procurement, manufacturing and distribution process. ...

U.S. Telecommuters Save 840 Million Gallons Of Gas Per Year

U.S. Telecommuters Save 840 Million Gallons Of Gas Per Year
Using electronics to telecommute saves the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year - the same amount of ...

Will Green Hype Lead To Consumer Complacency?

Will Green Hype Lead To Consumer Complacency?
When marketers, designers, gurus, and pundits hype the idea that Main Street must be going green because Eco Product X is selling ...

Coke Lightens Up PET Bottles

Coke Lightens Up PET Bottles
On the heels of releasing its corporate responsibility review, Coca-Cola has announced a newly designed 20-ounce polyethylene terephthalate contour bottle for ...

SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration

SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration
SC Johnson says that powering the company's largest global manufacturing plant with cogeneration turbines that run on natural gas and ...

Sun Launches Major Data Center Push

Sun Launches Major Data Center Push
Sun has launched its Eco Innovation Initiative , which the company says can help customers improve economic and energy efficiency in the ...

Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction

Comedy Central’s ‘Address The Mess’ Campaign Targets Waste Reduction
Comedy Central has launched a new program to encourage audiences to lead an environmentally friendly life, reports PRWeek (via MarketingVOX). The new ...

Energy Consultants In High Demand

Energy Consultants In High Demand
Energy consultants are reporting exponential growth in the number of clients seeking advice on saving energy and money, Reuters reports. Since Steven ...

EPA: Energy Efficiency Measures Could Save U.S. Data Centers $4 Billion

EPA: Energy Efficiency Measures Could Save U.S. Data Centers $4 Billion
A new EPA report shows that data centers in the U.S. have the potential to save up to $4 billion in annual electricity ...

Tips For Fleet Fuel Efficiency

Tips For Fleet Fuel Efficiency
PHH FirstFleet recently announced the results of  a fuel study of U.S. truck fleets in the grocery, manufacturing, fuel and retail ...

Stonyfield’s Hirshberg Predicts How Global Warming Will Affect Business, Society

Stonyfield’s Hirshberg Predicts How Global Warming Will Affect Business, Society
The economic consequences of climate change will be the dominant social and economic reality of the next 15 years, as well as the next ...

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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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