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Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits

Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits
Royal Dutch Shell says it will stop investing in Europe if utilities are forced to pay for emissions permits ...

Activist Group Uncovers ‘Corporate Spy’

Activist Group Uncovers ‘Corporate Spy’
UK anti-aviation group Plane Stupid has uncovered what it says is a corporate spy, an "activist" who in ...

UK Pushes For Mandatory Emissions Reporting

UK Pushes For Mandatory Emissions Reporting
A new amendment added to the UK's Climate Change Bill will make it mandatory for companies whose stock ...

Orly Airport Taps Into Geothermal

Orly Airport Taps Into Geothermal
Orly Airport in France is digging two one-mile deep shafts to tap into underground hot water geysers, AHN ...

How to Navigate the Environmental Media - Part 2

How to Navigate the Environmental Media - Part 2
Part Two - Battle for the Skies Virgin America's Richard Branson retreated to his own island in the Caribbean three weekends ago with ...

Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant

Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant
Ford is adding a third wind turbine at its Dagenham Diesel Centre in the UK to power the installation ...

Swiss Re Buys ERCs In 2008 To Go Carbon Neutral Since 2003

Swiss Re Buys ERCs In 2008 To Go Carbon Neutral Since 2003
Earlier this year, Swiss Re bought and decommissioned emission reduction certificates equivalent to 230,000 tons of CO2 emissions, which ...

Lego Releases Sustainability Report, Misses Efficiency Target

Lego Releases Sustainability Report, Misses Efficiency Target
The Lego Group has released its 2007 sustainability report (PDF).  Overall, Lego's five percent efficiency target ...

JPMorgan Buys Carbon Offset Company ClimateCare

JPMorgan Buys Carbon Offset Company ClimateCare
JPMorgan has acquired Climate Care, a UK carbon offset company. The company will invest in large-scale carbon ...

Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts

Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts
Not too long ago, Norway announced that it would be carbon neutral by 2030. Now, it's becoming apparent that ...

BP Tops Greenpeace In Green Brands Survey

BP Tops Greenpeace In Green Brands Survey
Marks and Spencer is the brand with the most green credentials, followed closely by Innocent in second place and ...

Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads

Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has told two environmental agencies, Airport Watch and enoughsenough, to alter an ad campaign ...

BT Says CSR Week A Big Success

BT Says CSR Week A Big Success
BT held its fourth CSR week earlier this month. Adrian Hosford, BT's director of corporate responsibility, said that ...

Lightweight Wine Bottles Better For The Environment

Lightweight Wine Bottles Better For The Environment
Bottling wine in lightweight bottles can significantly reduce CO2 emissions, according to a report by the Waste & ...

Barclays To Cut Data Center Energy Use With HP Tech

Barclays To Cut Data Center Energy Use With HP Tech
Barclays will introduce HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling technology to its new data center in Gloucester, U.K. HP's technology is part of ...

EU To U.S. Airlines: Buy Carbon Credits Or Face Fewer Flights

EU To U.S. Airlines: Buy Carbon Credits Or Face Fewer Flights
U.S. airlines must join the EU emissions trading scheme or an equivalent system in the U.S. or they could ...

UK Bans Cotton USA Ad Over Sustainability Claim

UK Bans Cotton USA Ad Over Sustainability Claim
Last week, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned (read ASA Adjudication) a campaign for Cotton USA ...

Henkel Releases Sustainability Report

Henkel Releases Sustainability Report
Over the past five years, Henkel says that its energy consumption is down 21 percent, water consumption is down 15 percent, waste ...

Stora Enso Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions 20%

Stora Enso Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions 20%
Stora Enso has set a new CO2 reduction target of 20 percent by 2020. The target covers Stora Enso's ...

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%
BASF has published its Report 2007, which for the first time combines the company's financial and sustainability reporting ...

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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