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Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative

Enterprise Launches $1M Carbon Offset Initiative
Enterprise Fleet Management, a division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, launched an environmental initiative designed to help its customers reduce greenhouse ...

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design

First Federal Savings Bank Touts Green Design
Interesting tour of the green features of First Federal Savings Bank in Mishawaka, Ind....

Mortgage Company Offers Incentive To Buy Green

Mortgage Company Offers Incentive To Buy Green
Countrywide Home Loans, a division of Countrywide Bank, has launched a Green Incentive Program, Danielle Johnson of GreenWorksRealty.com ...

Kodak Reports Progress on Sustainability Goals

Kodak Reports Progress on Sustainability Goals
Eastman Kodak announced that it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent, reduced its total energy use ...

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 ...

CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2

CDM Projects Prevent 135 Million Tonnes Of CO2
The Clean Development Mechanism has taken some heat lately, but here's some positive press. Projects to reduce carbon ...

JPMorgan Targets 20% Emissions Cut

JPMorgan Targets 20% Emissions Cut
JPMorgan Chase says that by increasing energy efficiencies in its facilities worldwide, purchasing energy from renewable sources, and educating ...

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint
The entire lifecycle of every copy of Discover Magazine produced costs 2.1 pounds in Co2 emissions, the magazine ...

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost

Google, Others Give eSolar $130 Million Boost
eSolar has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union says it's the first North American-based financial institution to be carbon neutral, two years ahead of schedule. Over ...

Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.

Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.
Down in Australia, the shop assistants' union wants laws to protect checkout operators from injury when they are forced ...

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010

KPMG To Cut Carbon Footprint 25% By 2010
KPMG has set a goal of reducing its member firms' combined carbon footprint 25 percent by the year ...

EPA: GHG Emissions Down In 2006

EPA: GHG Emissions Down In 2006
U.S. emissions during 2006 decreased by 1.1 percent overall from the previous year, according to the national greenhouse gas ...

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market

Climate Action Reserve Wants Piece Of Voluntary Carbon Market
The California Climate Action Registry has launched Climate Action Reserve, which hopes to create standards for the voluntary ...

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario

Duke’s Sustainability Report Includes 50% CO2 Reduction Scenario
Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 in the U.S., has released its 2007/2008 sustainability report (PDF). According ...

CSR Reporting: The Importance Of Stakeholder Engagement

CSR Reporting: The Importance Of Stakeholder Engagement
I graduated from UNC in May of 1998 and after a month-long surfing trip to Costa Rica I started a job in ...

Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off

Ford Details Plans To Cut Emissions, Shareholder Activists Back Off
Ford has become the first U.S. auto company to spell out how it plans to reach the goal of ...

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
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

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

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

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

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

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

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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