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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 ...

WaMu Targets IT ‘Energy Hogs’

WaMu Targets IT ‘Energy Hogs’
Data centers are electricity hogs, and when you add to that the PCs, copiers, printers and phones, "...the smarter ...

Big Investors Call On U.S. Congress To Tackle Climate Issues

Big Investors Call On U.S. Congress To Tackle Climate Issues
More than 50 leading investors, including the nation's largest public pension fund and the world's largest listed hedge fund, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers
Australian banking company Westpac will ask more than 10,000 of its suppliers to meet its new Sustainable Supply Chain ...

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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 ...

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) expects to go online September 10, News.com reports. The blind online ...

Mobile Carriers Seek Lower Emissions

Mobile Carriers Seek Lower Emissions
Mobile carriers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency, PCWorld reports. Reducing the cost of running mobile networks ...

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money

State Farm, Others Revamping Fleets And Business Practices To Save Money
As gas prices rise, companies are driving for bigger energy savings in every corner, USAToday reports. Companies and business ...

WaMu Switches 1M Accounts From Paper To E-Statements

WaMu Switches 1M Accounts From Paper To E-Statements
Through its year-long "Make A Statement, Plant A Tree" campaign, Washington Mutual Inc. has raised $1 million for ...

Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower

Mexico’s First LEED Gold Rating: HSBC Tower
The HSBC Tower in downtown Mexico City is the first building in Latin America to receive LEED Gold certification from the Mexico ...

Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave

Solar Tech Financiers In Race To Keep On Crest Of Solar Wave
A growing number of young companies are spending their brain power on software and financing, rather than photovoltaics, GreenTechBlog ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Verizon Uses Software, Thin Clients To Cut Energy Consumption

Verizon Uses Software, Thin Clients To Cut Energy Consumption
Over the past year, Verizon Wireless has deployed 1E WakeUp, which ensures that all PCs, whether on or off, ...

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Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Comments on the Language of Marketing Sustainability. In today's culture of over-parsed lexicon, where we argue the meaning of ... continue »

Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
Environmental Compliance: Initiatives Broaden, Budgets Up - Complete Apps Still Few in Number
Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green

According to a green survey from Rackspace Hosting (PDF), 44 percent of respondents are willing to pay more for green products ...

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EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
Most Americans Have Made Lifestyle Changes To Help The Environment
Climate Change And Public Health

Climate Change And Public Health

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, M.D. is interviewed by EnviroTV about the connection between climate change and public health....

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Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
Stern Helps Launch New Carbon Ratings Agency
The Bottom Line

Marketing

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

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Canada Ad Watchdog Releases Green Marketing Guidelines

Emissions

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Wal-Mart’s New Milk Jug Cuts Costs, Customers Cry Over Spilt Milk

Hi-Tech

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

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

Sony At Top, Nintendo, MS At Bottom Of Greenpeace Electronics Rankings

Efficiency

Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips

AASHE Releases Annual Review of Sustainability in Higher Education

Harvard, Yale, Others Embrace Green Design

Manufacturing

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

Maintaining Product Quality Alongside Environmental Performance

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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