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China Tops U.S. As No. 1 Producer Of CO2 Emissions

China Tops U.S. As No. 1 Producer Of CO2 Emissions
China's emissions of carbon dioxide have exceeded those of the U.S., according to a report released this week by the Netherlands Environmental ...

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy

BHP Revises Climate Change Policy
BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, has released its revised climate change policy (PDF), ABC reports. There are four key elements to ...

Enterprise Launches Green Marketing Push

Enterprise Launches Green Marketing Push
Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced a green marketing strategy this week, STLToday reports. Enterprise has been collecting data and preparing to launch ...

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World

Top 10 Greenest Companies In The World
The Independent, along with Ethical Investment Research Services, has put together a guide to the greenest companies in ...

Bush Proposes Plan To Reach Global Emissions Goal

Bush Proposes Plan To Reach Global Emissions Goal
President Bush is urging 15 major nations to agree by the end of next year ...

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Exxon Investors Want Boskin Removed Over Climate Issues

Exxon Investors Want Boskin Removed Over Climate Issues
A group of institutional investors, who say the collectively represent about 100 million Exxon shares, want Exxon Mobil director Michael Boskin removed ...

ExxonMobil Releases CSR Report, Faces Transparency Questions, Again

ExxonMobil Releases CSR Report, Faces Transparency Questions, Again
Exxon Mobil Corporation has released its 2006 Corporate Citizenship Report. According to the report: The company says CO2 emissions were reduced by about ...

BP & Rio Tinto Partner On Hydrogen-Fuel Projects

BP & Rio Tinto Partner On Hydrogen-Fuel Projects
BP and Rio Tinto formed a joint venture, Hydrogen Energy, to develop technology for producing power from coal, oil ...

Bush Orders Feds To Regulate Vehicle Emissions

Bush Orders Feds To Regulate Vehicle Emissions
Bush has signed an executive order directing the departments of Transportation, Agriculture and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency to craft regulations that ...

Ford Launches Campaign For Escape Hybrid

Ford Launches Campaign For Escape Hybrid
Ford's strategy in promoting the 2008 Escape and Escape hybrid is to present the two versions of the compact SUV as separate ...

Shell Catches Flak Over Green Ad, Releases Sustainability Report

Shell Catches Flak Over Green Ad, Releases Sustainability Report
On the day that Royal Dutch Shell has released its 2006 sustainability report, Friends of the Earth Europe is filing ...

IPCC Lays Out Roadmap To Cutting GHG Emissions

IPCC Lays Out Roadmap To Cutting GHG Emissions
The IPCC's latest report (PDF summary for policymakers) says that the world has to make significant cuts in gas emissions ...

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

Chevron Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

Chevron Releases Corporate Responsibility Report
Chevron issued its 2006 corporate responsibility report highlighting the company's environmental and social performance in 2006 including steps it has taken to reduce emissions, ...

Boeing and Virgin Announce Environmental Partnership

Boeing and Virgin Announce Environmental Partnership
Virgin Atlantic Airways has ordered 15 Boeing 787 planes as part of an environmental partnership with the company that includes joint research into ...

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program
ConocoPhillips  is supporting a mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cap and has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership - a ...

Portland International Raceway Explores Offsetting Emissions

Portland International Raceway Explores Offsetting Emissions
Portland, Oregon wants to make its International Raceway the first carbon-neutral track in the U.S., the Associated Press reports. The city's Bureau ...

Supreme Court: EPA Can Regulate Car Emissions

Supreme Court: EPA Can Regulate Car Emissions
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the EPA has authority to regulate vehicle emissions, USATODAY reports. The ...

American Orders Fuel Efficient 737s

American Orders Fuel Efficient 737s
American Airlines will buy 47 Boeing 737 jets four years earlier than planned to begin replacing some of its oldest planes with ...

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020

EU Leaders Agree: 20% Green Power by 2020
EU leaders agreed Friday that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power sources by 2020, AP reports. ...

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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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