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40 Million ‘Green Boomers’ In U.S.

40 Million ‘Green Boomers’ In U.S.
Forty million boomers use their purchasing power to buy environmentally safe brands, according to a survey from AARP Services and ...

U.S. Energy Bill Phases Out Incandescent Light Bulb

U.S. Energy Bill Phases Out Incandescent Light Bulb
The energy bill, which passed the Senate last week and which the U.S. House could pass as early as today, will ...

GM Turns To Workers To Help Trim Energy Bills

GM Turns To Workers To Help Trim Energy Bills
General Motors is trying to get workers to turn off lights and computers, and alert managers to window leaks and other energy ...

New SEC Rule Saved Sun $500,000 And 100 Million Sheets Of Paper

New SEC Rule Saved Sun $500,000 And 100 Million Sheets Of Paper
For Sun Microsystems, "eco" stands for both ecology, as in the environment, and economy, as in the financial bottom line. Recently ...

Forest Ethics Releases Naughty And Nice List, Gives Sears Lump Of Coal

Forest Ethics Releases Naughty And Nice List, Gives Sears Lump Of Coal
Forest Ethics and its Catalog Cutdown campaign have released its annual Naughty and Nice list (PDF), which grades catalog ...

How SC Johnson Saved $1.6 Million With Efficient Trucking

How SC Johnson Saved $1.6 Million With Efficient Trucking
SC Johnson recently completed a transportation-logistics project that eliminated 1,882 tons of greenhouse gases over a 12 month period, used 2,098 ...

BASF Scores Big On Sustainability Communications Report Card

BASF Scores Big On Sustainability Communications Report Card
BASF’s corporate website is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications, Jungle Rating – a ...

IPCC Report: Urgent Action On Climate Change Needed, Or Else

IPCC Report: Urgent Action On Climate Change Needed, Or Else
The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its fourth report (video, audio, and slides here) saying ...

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 ...

Marketers Warned To Stay Clear Of ‘Green Trap’

Marketers Warned To Stay Clear Of ‘Green Trap’
America's consumers offer a warning to business leaders and marketers looking to ride the green wave: either back your eco-friendly words with ...

Today's News

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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