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Coal Mine Turns Methane Into Emissions Credits

Coal Mine Turns Methane Into Emissions Credits
A coal mine in southern Poland is earning CO2 emissions offsets by converting excess methane into heating fuel and electricity and selling ...

TNT To Replace 100 Diesel Delivery Trucks With Electrics

TNT To Replace 100 Diesel Delivery Trucks With Electrics
Amsterdam-based delivery company TNT, in partnership with Smith Electric Vehicles, has introduced more than 100 electric trucks in the UK, ...

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture
DuPont and Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, have formed DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC, a 50/50 joint ...

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality
The European Commission said it would promote information and communications technologies to help cut EU energy use by 20 percent by ...

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced the winners of the Readers' Choice Awards for sustainability reporting The winning reports, as ...

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

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel
Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism
Two days after Royal Dutch Shell posted a 25 percent increase in first quarter profit to a record $9.1 ...

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change

Stern Outlines Global Deal On Climate Change
British economist and academic Lord Nicholas Stern has published a set of proposals (PDF) for a global deal ...

The Green Influence Factor

The Green Influence Factor
Research from Natural Marketing Institute's 2007 European LOHAS Consumer Trends Database, shows that culture plays a strong role in consumers' willingness ...

Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions

Russia Has No Plans To Cap Carbon Emissions
Russia says it has no plans to cap carbon emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to ...

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?

Does More E-mail = Less Carbon?
Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports. The aim of the ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’
Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

Vodafone Calls For 50% Reduction In Its Global Warming Emissions

Vodafone Calls For 50% Reduction In Its Global Warming Emissions
Vodafone Group has announced that it will cut its CO2 emission by 50 percent by the year 2020 through increased energy ...

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

National Grid Sets 80% GHG Reduction Goal, Adopts Carbon Budgets

National Grid Sets 80% GHG Reduction Goal, Adopts Carbon Budgets
National Grid is increasing its target of reducing company-wide greenhouse gas emissions from 60 percent to 80 percent by ...

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks
Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million

Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million
Hilton Hotels says it has delivered energy savings of over 10 percent last year across more than 80 hotels ...

No Emissions Goal At Major Economics Meeting

No Emissions Goal At Major Economics Meeting
No fixed targets were set at the two-day Major Economies Meetings in Paris which brought together delegates from 16 ...

Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month

Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month
Carbon labels will be tested on Tesco-brand products next month, The Guardian reports. The retailer will put carbon ...

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020
Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL's parent says it's the ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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