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Duke Plans To Get 20 MW Closer To The Sun

Duke Plans To Get 20 MW Closer To The Sun
More details have come out about Duke Energy's $100 million investment in commercial-scale rooftop solar panels, which we ...

DOD Deploys First GHG Management System At Army Base

DOD Deploys First GHG Management System At Army Base
The U.S. Army has implemented its first real-time GHG reporting and management system at a military base -- Fort ...

Lexmark Reports Reduced GHG Emissions, Increased Energy And Water Savings

Lexmark Reports Reduced GHG Emissions, Increased Energy And Water Savings
Lexmark's international headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky, reduced its GHG emissions 11 percent in 2006 from the year before, according to the company's ...

Verizon Suppliers Must Meet New Energy Efficiency Standards

Verizon Suppliers Must Meet New Energy Efficiency Standards
Verizon has established its own energy-consumption standards and an associated measurement for new telecommunications-related equipment that its suppliers will ...

Dell Recycles 100M+ Pounds Of E-Waste, First With 80 Plus Silver Certification

Dell Recycles 100M+ Pounds Of E-Waste, First With 80 Plus Silver Certification
Dell reported recovery of 102 million pounds of IT equipment from customers during 2007, a 20 percent increase ...

Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance

Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance
Toyota has developed a new fuel cell (zero pollution) hybrid powered by hydrogen and electricity that can travel more ...

HP Unveils Ambitious Data Center Project, More Efficient Solar Energy System

HP Unveils Ambitious Data Center Project, More Efficient Solar Energy System
HP's research arm HP Labs has announced new sustainability research initiatives the company says will include an industry-first ...

Timberland Gets First LEED Gold For Mall-Based Store

Timberland Gets First LEED Gold For Mall-Based Store
The USGBC has awarded LEED Gold certification for Timberland's Peabody, Mass. store location, and LEED Silver certification for Timberland's ...

Calistoga Plant Improvements Save 1.3 Million KWh/Year

Calistoga Plant Improvements Save 1.3 Million KWh/Year
Recent enhancements to Calistoga Beverage Company's compressed air system for processing, bottling and packaging water, will save Calistoga 1.3 million kwh of ...

New Cassat Software Powers Down Idle Computers, Cuts Energy Use

New Cassat Software Powers Down Idle Computers, Cuts Energy Use
Cassatt Corporation announced a new capability of its Cassatt Active Response products that enables the software to monitor the changing demand ...

JCPenney Releases First CSR Report

JCPenney Releases First CSR Report
During the first year of a four-year energy awareness campaign, JCPenney says it saved enough energy to fuel 55 ...

MWH Offers Sustainable Energy Management Services

MWH Offers Sustainable Energy Management Services
The environmental engineering firm of MWH is offering sustainable energy management services to industrial clients in the U.S. SEM ...

HSBC HQ Goes Solar

HSBC HQ Goes Solar
As part of its $90 million Global Environmental Efficiency Program launched last year, HSBC 's Canary Wharf office tower ...

Cox Reports Progress On ‘Cox Conserves’

Cox Reports Progress On ‘Cox Conserves’
Part of its "Cox Conserves" program, which Cox Communications announced in 2007, is reducing the company's energy consumption by ...

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance
BT has announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020 and published a "Climate Stabilization ...

IT: Software Has A Role In Energy Efficiency

IT: Software Has A Role In Energy Efficiency
Software makers should position themselves to compete in non-IT-related areas where there is high power consumption and carbon output, ...

UK Floats Idea Of Carbon Allowance For Individuals

UK Floats Idea Of Carbon Allowance For Individuals
The chair of the UK's Environmental Audit Committee, Tim Yeo, says a personal carbon allowance is the best way ...

More Companies Give Employees Energy-Saving Incentives

More Companies Give Employees Energy-Saving Incentives
An increasing number of companies are offering their employees incentives for saving energy, like gas cards and telecommuting options, ...

Green Panties Hitting U.K. Streets

Green Panties Hitting U.K. Streets
The green underwear produced at a new lingerie factory in Thulhiriya, Sri Lanka -- perhaps the world's first carbon-neutral ...

New Dell Desktop, Monitor Offer Increased Energy Savings

New Dell Desktop, Monitor Offer Increased Energy Savings
Dell has announced a desktop computer, the Energy Smart VostroTM 410, designed for small businesses that it ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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