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Carbon Sciences Wants To Turn CO2 Into Chalk

Carbon Sciences Wants To Turn CO2 Into Chalk
Carbon Sciences says it can efficiently turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk for use in drywall and other products....

Green Technology Overview

Green Technology Overview
Adam Grosser, general partner of Foundation Capital, describes the different categories of green technology and the challenges they face....

Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups

Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups
Dot Hill Systems announced it has joined the Green Grid and the Storage Networking Industry Associoation Green Storage ...

SNIA’s Green IT Program Joins Crowded Field

SNIA’s Green IT Program Joins Crowded Field
The Storage Networking Industry Association has formed its own green IT program, eWeek reports. The scope of work for the ...

Apple Tree Natural Gas Plant Captures Vent Stack CO2

Apple Tree Natural Gas Plant Captures Vent Stack CO2
Blue Source is capturing vent stack CO2 flowing from the Apple Tree natural gas processing plant in La Veta, Colorado, to ...

88% Of IT Depts Say Storage Vendors Dropping Green Ball

88% Of IT Depts Say Storage Vendors Dropping Green Ball
Eighty-eight percent of North American IT departments say storage vendors should be doing more to improve the energy efficiency of their products, ...

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies
AlwaysOn has released a list of private greentech companies that it feels are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, ...

Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case

Home Depot Pays $10 Million To Settle Hazardous Waste Case
Home Depot is paying nearly $10 million to settle a civil case filed by state and Los Angeles County prosecutors over the ...

Advanced Electricity Technologies Could Lower CO2 Control Costs By 50%

Advanced Electricity Technologies Could Lower CO2 Control Costs By 50%
The aggressive development and implementation of a full portfolio of advanced electricity technologies could reduce the economic cost of cutting future U.S. ...

Data Storage Vendors Tout Green Solutions

Data Storage Vendors Tout Green Solutions
How much being green can help storage vendors boost sales is a much-debated question, Investor's Business Daily reports. A storage vendor that ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate ...

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Recent RFPs

Recent RFPs
April 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy  ...

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

DocuSign Launches Earth Day 2008 Campaign

DocuSign Launches Earth Day 2008 Campaign
Electronic signature service company DocuSign has started marketing for next year's Earth Day by challenging businesses to join in an effort to ...

PG&E offers Incentives to Increase Data Center Energy Efficiency

PG&E offers Incentives to Increase Data Center Energy Efficiency
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is leading a nationwide coalition of utilities to tackle energy efficiency programs for the high tech ...

Google Plans Largest US Corporate Solar Installation

Google Plans Largest US Corporate Solar Installation
I Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, will begin constructing a solar electricity system for Google’s Mountain View, California, ...

Xcel Energy Plans US’s Largest Solar Power Plant

Xcel Energy Plans US’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Xcel Energy has announced that an affiliate of SunEdison will build, own and operate a 8 megawatt central solar ...

Deyo Installs Solar System at Power Manufacturing Plant

Pacific Energy is finishing the installation of 90 of 180 solar panels as part of an energy-efficient system at Deyo, the ...

Today's News

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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