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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 ...

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 ...

Swiss Re Buys ERCs In 2008 To Go Carbon Neutral Since 2003

Swiss Re Buys ERCs In 2008 To Go Carbon Neutral Since 2003
Earlier this year, Swiss Re bought and decommissioned emission reduction certificates equivalent to 230,000 tons of CO2 emissions, which ...

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, ...

Texas, FPL, GE, Xcel Winners In Latest AWEA Rankings

Texas, FPL, GE, Xcel Winners In Latest AWEA Rankings
Wind energy leaders in most categories held onto their #1 positions in the American Wind Energy Association's annual rankings of U.S. wind ...

Scale Of Sodexo’s Recycled Napkin Program Saves Resources

Scale Of Sodexo’s Recycled Napkin Program Saves Resources
Sodexo says that after one year, its switch to recycled napkins in 1,300 foodservice operations nationwide has resulted ...

UPS Adds 167 CNG Delivery Trucks

UPS Adds 167 CNG Delivery Trucks
UPS has added 167 Compressed Natural Gas delivery vehicles to its fleets in Texas, Georgia and California. It ...

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 ...

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters
Raley's, a supermarket chain with stores in California, has retrofitted 16 older trucks with a new exhaust filtration system resulting in ...

Chicago’s Merchandise Mart Retrofits Under Clinton Climate Initiative

Chicago’s Merchandise Mart Retrofits Under Clinton Climate Initiative
Chicago's Merchandise Mart has signed the first project development agreement in the U.S. under the Clinton ...

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 ...

New Financial Models Make Solar Power More Economical

New Financial Models Make Solar Power More Economical
Solar companies are becoming financial intermediaries, leading companies to install solar power that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford ...

Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota

Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota wants to build the most environmentally friendly major sports stadium in the country, according to Discovery News Video....

Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz

Starbucks Helps Growers Enter Carbon Credit Biz
Some Fortune 500 companies are getting involved in ecosystem services. That is, finding ways to repay nature for the ...

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 ...

Wal-Mart Says Latest High Efficiency Store Cuts Energy Use 45%

Wal-Mart Says Latest High Efficiency Store Cuts Energy Use 45%
Wal-Mart has unveiled what it says is its most energy efficient U.S. store in Las Vegas - the HE.5 ...

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, ...

Pepsi Center First U.S. Arena To Offset 100% Of Electricity Used

Pepsi Center First U.S. Arena To Offset 100% Of Electricity Used
The Pepsi Center is the first sports arena in the U.S. to claim "100 percent green" status, announcing ...

NY Mets Unveil Citi Field’s Green Specs

NY Mets Unveil Citi Field’s Green Specs
The New York Mets have teamed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement several environmental measures in ...

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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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