Environmental Conservation
Roundup – Bridgestone, EIA, Germany
Western Climate group sees carbon cuts and savings
Reuters
Bridgestone to Partner with the World Agroforestry Centre to Assist Rubber Tree Farmers in ...
FSC Harmonizes Regional US Forest Standards
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC–US) announced it has revised its Forest Management Standard for forest operations in the contiguous U.S. Nine regional standards have ...
Reuse IT to Promote Sustainability, Efficiency
As many school kids know, the 3Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle – are the fundamental building blocks for protecting the environment. ...
Cisco Goes After Enterprise Energy Management Market
Cisco has updated to its Smart Connected Buildings portfolio, a collection of services that provide for centralized management of buildings across global enterprise operations. The ...
Navy Evaluates New Technologies as Part of Energy-Saving Efforts
The Naval District Washington (NDW) has several improvement projects underway to reduce energy consumption ranging from testing experimental technologies to replacing light bulbs at ...
Moving Forestry to the Forefront of the Carbon Market
An estimated 16% of the total global GHG emissions are directly attributed to the destruction of tropical forests. Forest carbon based projects, w...
Roundup – Dell, Georgia Pacific, Ritz-Carlton
Where Thoreau Lived, Crusade Over Bottles
NY Times
Dell offers free computer recycling
Just Means
5 Green Data Center Startups You Need to Know...
Cox Recycles 500 Tons of Waste
Cox Enterprises succeeded in recycling 500 tons of waste last year, according to a company press release.
In 2009, Cox announced a partnership with Redemtech, which ...
Roundup – McCandless, Dow Corning, Ingram
Free range eggs contain a little something extra: pollutants
LA Times
Tree-free paper products come from bananas, waste
Scripps Howard News Service
ERA Carbon ...
Sustainable Brands 2010 – Relan
Just means interviews Tom Schaeppi of Relan Bags on how Relan helps companies ...
US Largest Carbon Credit Buyer in 2009
The U.S. was the largest buyer of voluntary carbon credits last year, according to a new report released by Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New ...
Roundup – Apple’s Solar iPhone, UK, CDC, Carbon Calculators
Apple Patents Solar iPhone
Inhabitat
CDC Invests $50m in Sustainable Forestry
New Energy World Network
Who Will Pay for UK’s Green Economy?
BBC
It’s Not Easy Being Clean
Control Global
Building Insulation for Sustainable ...
Enterprise Sets Goal to Reduce Energy Use, Costs 20% by 2015
Enterprise Holdings, which operates Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and National Car Rental brands, has made a commitment to reduce both energy use and ...
Hohm Scores For Bill Gates, Al Gore – MSFT Unveils ‘Hohm Score’
Microsoft is looking to gain national attention for Hohm, which it introduced last summer. It's unveiled Hohm Score, an online tool that estimates ...
U.S. Groups Push to End Deforestation, Improve Biz
U.S. farm and forest products groups are pressuring Congress to protect tropical rain forests with a new report on the economic effects of deforestation. ...
Canadian Forest Industry Signs Conservation Agreement
Twenty-one members of Canada’s forest industry signed an agreement suspending new logging on almost 29 million hectares of the Boreal Forest, according to an announcement yesterday. The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, made with ...
Nestle Quits Sinar Mas after Greenpeace Campaign
Nestle announced it will cease buying palm oil from suppliers linked to deforestation after a two month campaign by Greenpeace.
The campaign highlighted Nestle’s relationship with the Sinar ...
Ford Highlights Volunteer Efforts
Ford Motor Company highlighted its volunteer efforts Friday with the announcement that 600 company employees and retirees would spend the day ...
Hospitals Can Cut Energy Use 60% by Redesigning their Energy Systems
Hospitals, which account for four percent of all energy consumed in the U.S., can achieve a 60 percent reduction in energy utility use by redesigning ...
Dole Revamps Corporate Responsibility Office to Reflect New Initiatives
Dole Food Company has created a new Office of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability that will drive the company's global environmental initiatives at company-owned farms. The ...
Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy's SPAWAR
