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Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact
Goodrich Corp. announced its Tullahoma facility has made improvements to reduce the facility's environmental impact. Some of the improvements ...

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan
This week, Google unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan (in undiscounted 2008 dollars) to help America kick its fossil ...

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions
Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, announced that it will offer a Carbon Footprint Solution to help ...

Chipotle Restaurant Features Wind Turbine

Chipotle Restaurant Features Wind Turbine
Chipotle Mexican Grill announced it will open a "green" restaurant in Gurnee, IL, this fall. The new restaurant ...

Ben & Jerry’s Tests ‘Greener’ Freezer

Ben & Jerry’s Tests ‘Greener’ Freezer
Ben & Jerry's announced the launch of a pilot project to test hydrocarbon-based freezers in the U.S. with ...

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Haworth Reduces Truck Shiping Emissions 20%

Haworth Reduces Truck Shiping Emissions 20%
Haworth Inc. participated in a study conducted by Perkins Logistics and found that about 20 percent of CO2 ...

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign
Postmaster General John Potter has called on employees to unplug, turn off lights, close doors, and become personally ...

DOE Awards $15M For Net-Zero Energy Commercial Buildings

DOE Awards $15M For Net-Zero Energy Commercial Buildings
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $15 million to 21 companies in an effort to encourage the adoption ...

Sharp And TBS Issue ‘Lights Out Challenge’

Sharp And TBS Issue ‘Lights Out Challenge’
Sharp Electronics, in collaboration with Turner Broadcasting Systems, announced the "Lights Out Challenge." The challenge encourages fans watching ...

Enterprise Launches Nationwide Car Sharing Program

Enterprise Launches Nationwide Car Sharing Program
Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced that its car sharing program, WeCar, is now available nationwide. The new offering provides hourly ...

Pepsi Launches Two Green Websites

Pepsi Launches Two Green Websites
Pepsi-Cola North America announced it has launched two interactive Web sites – Pepsi Eco Challenge and ...

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers
In a recent research report, “Sustainable Manufacturing: Remaking Today's Manufacturing Enterprise for Tomorrow's Economy,” ARC Advisory Group's Greg Gorbach ...

California Passes Green Chemistry Legislation

California Passes Green Chemistry Legislation
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed AB 1879 and SB 509, moving California on the path toward a ...

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?
A new sight can be seen along the Shinkansen Bullet Train route between Tokyo and Osaka – Sanyo's Solar ...

Rutgers University Installing 1.4 Megawatt Solar System

Rutgers University Installing 1.4 Megawatt Solar System
Rutgers University broke ground on a seven-acre solar power system at its Livingston campus this week. The university is ...

ICF Unveils Green Business Planning Service

ICF Unveils Green Business Planning Service
ICF International launched Green Business, a Web-based sustainable business planning service. The new Web site offers an integrated ...

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings
Ninety-four percent of small-business IT decision-makers in the U.S. say that technology is an important tool to help green ...

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades
Autodesk announced in its latest sustainability report that GHG emissions from its business operations in 2007 equaled about ...

Arm & Hammer ‘Essentials’ Dumps Bottle, Cuts Supply Chain Emissions

Arm & Hammer ‘Essentials’ Dumps Bottle, Cuts Supply Chain Emissions
Arm & Hammer introduced Arm & Hammer Essentials cleaners. The company says the new products benefit the environment ...

ESPN Cafeteria Puts Green On Menu

ESPN Cafeteria Puts Green On Menu
At ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, the company has converted the cafeteria to using reusable and compostable dishes and utensils, ...

Today's News

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

True or false? “Until corporate environmental best practices are considered as confidential as other company IP, they are clearly not driving competitive ... continue »

Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Certain fast-moving, environmentally-friendly consumable products are being used by a significant portion of the U.S. general population, according to the Natural ...

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Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
CEOs Leading Champions Of Corporate Green Initiatives
Gamers Checking Out Green Cars
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Greentech investment experts at GoingGreen discuss how much it will cost the U.S. economy to go carbon neutral....

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Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
Vinod Khosla On The Need For Clean Tech To Deliver Real Results
CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Sharp And TBS Issue ‘Lights Out Challenge’

Emissions

Sprint Sets Goal Of Cutting GHG Emissions 15%

Goodrich’s Tullahoma Facility Cuts Environmental Impact

CNE Launches Service To Help Companies Manage GHG Emissions

Hi-Tech

Green IT Brings Small Businesses Cost Savings

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

CIOs Discuss Green IT and Cost Efficiency

Efficiency

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

Chipotle Restaurant Features Wind Turbine

Ben & Jerry’s Tests ‘Greener’ Freezer

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?

Financial Turmoil May Boost Energy Efficiency Initiatives

GAO: CO2-Offset Market Lacks Credibility

CSR Reports

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Honda Reduces 700 kg of CO2 Emissions Per Vehicle Produced

Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool

Major Players

FedEx Hybrid Truck Plan Hits Speed Bump

USPS Launches Year-long Energy Conservation Campaign

AT&T Installing 1 Megawatt Solar System

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