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Boeing Points To Improved Environmental Performance

Boeing Points To Improved Environmental Performance
Boeing says that energy use and carbon dioxide emissions at its major facilities fell 24 percent between 2002 and 2007. In its ...

Long-Term Sustainability Depends On The Green

Long-Term Sustainability Depends On The Green
Companies realize that environmental initiatives can create great PR, but they're also realizing that those initiatives must be profitable ...

China, India Top List Of Carbon Credit Sellers

China, India Top List Of Carbon Credit Sellers
A report from the World Bank says India is the second largest seller of carbon credits in the world ...

BP Reports Continued Reductions In GHG Emissions

BP Reports Continued Reductions In GHG Emissions
BP has announced in its "BP Sustainability Report 2007" that its GHG emissions, discharges and wastes have decreased ...

Shell Environmental Team Fields Questions Live

Shell Environmental Team Fields Questions Live
Royal Dutch Shell's Global Business Environment executive Jeremy Bentham, and others on the environmental team, fielded questions from the ...

AIG Releases CSR Report

AIG Releases CSR Report
Insurance and financial services giant American International Group's second report on corporate responsibility, titled "Putting our Strength Behind ...

Canada Post Educates Marketers On ‘Responsible’ Direct Mail

Canada Post Educates Marketers On ‘Responsible’ Direct Mail
Already a supporter of reducing junk mail with its eco-friendly Consumer Choice option that reduces waste and clutter, Canada ...

Upward Trend In National Energy Efficiency Market

Upward Trend In National Energy Efficiency Market
Energy efficiency can make a larger contribution towards stabilizing energy prices and reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- should we choose to fully ...

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 ...

Fireman’s Fund Launches Green Coverage For Manufacturers

Fireman’s Fund Launches Green Coverage For Manufacturers
Five months after announcing it would offer green homeowners insurance, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. has announced a ...

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 ...

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards
Starbucks says that by 2010 it wants 50 percent of the energy used at its stores to come from ...

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M
Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance have released a report, "State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets: Forging the ...

Alcoa, Ford, Arcelor Mittal, Wal-Mart Among Brazil GHG Protocol Members

Alcoa, Ford, Arcelor Mittal, Wal-Mart Among Brazil GHG Protocol Members
Twelve founding members of the newly launched Brazil Greenhouse Gas Protocol Program have voluntarily agreed to report their global-warming emissions, the World ...

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions
Of the 20 shareholder resolutions filed with companies by Domini Social Investments for the 2008 proxy season, six concerned ...

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting
Duke Energy's plans for new coal and nuclear plants did not please all who attended the company's recent shareholder ...

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

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 ...

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

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency
Colgate-Palmolive has published its sustainability report. In 2007, Colgate's global CO2 emissions were approximately 675,000 metric tons, up from 664,000 ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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