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Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off

Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off
Ford has become the first U.S. auto company to spell out how it plans to reach the goal of ...

First RGGI Trades Point To Billion-Plus Regional Carbon Market

First RGGI Trades Point To Billion-Plus Regional Carbon Market
The first two trades of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowances were announced in the past month, establishing the ...

UK Pushes For Mandatory Emissions Reporting

UK Pushes For Mandatory Emissions Reporting
A new amendment added to the UK's Climate Change Bill will make it mandatory for companies whose stock ...

Do Corporate Execs Need A ‘Climate Change’ Oath?

Do Corporate Execs Need A ‘Climate Change’ Oath?
Managers "need to break away from misleading and simplistic ideas that caricature managers as the hired hands of shareholders," ...

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. ...

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 ...

BofA Adopts Carbon Principles, CEO Voted Fossil Fool Of The Year

BofA Adopts Carbon Principles, CEO Voted Fossil Fool Of The Year
Bank of America says it will adopt The Carbon Principles, a set of guidelines issued by J.P. Morgan ...

EPA Temporarily Bars IBM From New Federal Contracts

EPA Temporarily Bars IBM From New Federal Contracts
IBM has been temporarily barred from receiving contracts with all federal agencies while the Environmental Protection Agency reviews concerns raised about potential ...

U.S. Split Between Environment And Economic Growth

U.S. Split Between Environment And Economic Growth
Even with high gas prices and the general perception that the U.S. is in a recession, Americans continue to say (by a ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks

‘Radical Greening’ One Of Top Strategic Business Risks
"Radical greening" is one of the top 10 strategic business risks for 2008, according to a new study (PDF) by Ernst ...

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities

Banks Want ‘Carbon Principles’ Extended To Municipal Utilities
Bankers are discussing the development of lending guidelines - similar to the carbon principles issued by J.P. Morgan ...

Will Recession Derail Your CSR Efforts?

Will Recession Derail Your CSR Efforts?
Two major corporate social responsibility questions will be faced during the economic downturn, according to Ethical Corporation. Will consumers ...

NYMEX Starts Trading Emissions Contracts

NYMEX Starts Trading Emissions Contracts
The New York Mercantile Exchange and Evolution Markets opened The Green Exchange yesterday with futures trading based on ...

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 ...

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), plans to hold a ...

UK Green Budget Draws Fire

UK Green Budget Draws Fire
UK Chancellor Alistair Darling's highly anticipated "green" budget didn't please everyone, with many feeling that it fooled at ...

Investors File 54 Global Warming-Related Shareholder Resolutions

Investors File 54 Global Warming-Related Shareholder Resolutions
U.S. investors have filed 54 global warming shareholder resolutions with U.S. companies, nearly doubling the number filed two years ...

Carbon Market Could Jump 56% To $92 Billion In 2008

Carbon Market Could Jump 56% To $92 Billion In 2008
The global carbon market will see 4.2 billion tons carbon emissions transacted during 2008, up 56 percent from last year, according ...

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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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