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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....

Orly Airport Taps Into Geothermal

Orly Airport Taps Into Geothermal
Orly Airport in France is digging two one-mile deep shafts to tap into underground hot water geysers, AHN ...

Super Bowl Powered Completely With Green Energy

Super Bowl Powered Completely With Green Energy
This year's Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, will be the first ever powered completely with renewable energy by using solar, wind and ...

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released a short-term action plan (PDF) to begin reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas ...

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

McDonald’s Taps Into Geothermal

McDonald’s Taps Into Geothermal
A McDonald’s restaurant in Pensacola, Florida is digging 55 holes, 350 feet deep to heat and cool the new restaurant with geothermal ...

Number Of Green Jobs Could Hit 40 Million By 2030

Number Of Green Jobs Could Hit 40 Million By 2030
A new report (PDF) from the American Solar Energy Society shows that as many as 1 out of 4 workers ...

Sprint Outlines Use Of Alternative Energy Sources

Sprint Outlines Use Of Alternative Energy Sources
Sprint has released a little information on its moves into alternative energy sources, many of which are used for backup power ...

Cantor Adds Voluntary Carbon Markets To CantorCO2e Trading Platform

Cantor Adds Voluntary Carbon Markets To CantorCO2e Trading Platform
CantorCO2e has launched a web-based marketplace, emissionstrading.com providing information about multiple domestic and international projects creating carbon dioxide equivalent offsets. ...

Vail Releases Green Details Of ‘Ever Vail’ Development

Vail Releases Green Details Of ‘Ever Vail’ Development
More details have come out about Vail Resorts' $1 billion Ever Vail development, the largest LEED-certified, multi-use resort development project ...

Motorsport Facility Installs Grey-Water Geothermal System

Motorsport Facility Installs Grey-Water Geothermal System
Prairie Hills Motorsport Club, located in Lake Village, Indiana and scheduled to open in the spring of 2009, is using a ...

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies

GridPoint Tops List of 100 Innovative Greentech Companies
AlwaysOn has released a list of private greentech companies that it feels are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate ...

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit

CEOs Sign Numerous Environmental Pledges At Global Compact Summit
A flurry of press releases have come out of the Global Compact leaders Summit that's finishing up in Geneva. Top executives of corporations such ...

Senate Approves Energy Bill

Senate Approves Energy Bill
The Senate approved energy legislation that would increase fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles, provide tax incentives for development of alternative fuels and require ...

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 ...

Sony Buys Geothermal For Tokyo’s Sony Building

Sony Buys Geothermal For Tokyo’s Sony Building
Sony Corp. has signed an agreement for more than 10 million kWh of geothermal power per year with Japan Natural Energy Co., TechOn ...

Survey: Midwesterners Aware of Alt Fuel & Vehicles, Not Much Else

Survey: Midwesterners Aware of Alt Fuel & Vehicles, Not Much Else
Eighty-seven percent of homeowners in the Midwest consider the development of alternative energy products and processes to be very important to critical. However, less ...

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, ...

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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
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

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

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

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

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

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

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

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

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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