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Sydney Bows Earth Hour

Sydney Bows Earth Hour
Sydney kicked off Earth Hour with lights going out on the city's landmarks on Saturday night, The Sydney ...

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie

CDM Rulebook Launched By Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie's climate change practice has launched the CDM Rulebook website, an online database for the rules ...

Israeli Water Industry Wants To Quench World’s Thirst

Israeli Water Industry Wants To Quench World’s Thirst
After decades of developing water technologies, Israel is now exporting them, turning water into a potentially lucrative worldwide business....

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies

Ethical Image Hard Sell For Chemical Companies
The Chemical industry places 9 out of 10 in Covalence's EthicalQuote ranking (PDF), ahead of Oil & Gas. In 2007, ...

Merrill Lynch Partners With Carbon Disclosure Project

Merrill Lynch Partners With Carbon Disclosure Project
Merrill Lynch has signed a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project to support CDP's development and growth ...

Stora Enso Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions 20%

Stora Enso Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions 20%
Stora Enso has set a new CO2 reduction target of 20 percent by 2020. The target covers Stora Enso's ...

US Employers Not So Hot At Communicating Green Cred

US Employers Not So Hot At Communicating Green Cred
German businesses appear to be setting the pace in terms of communicating their “green” credentials, with 43 percent of ...

Will Companies Get Carbon Labels Right?

Will Companies Get Carbon Labels Right?
A BusinessWeek article has tackled the issues surrounding carbon labels. As EL readers know, there's lots of controversy - also hurdles ...

(Dis)Orders of Magnitude

(Dis)Orders of Magnitude
Human beings are good at numbers, but only within a small range. Most of us can imagine how big "One Hundred" ...

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its 2008 Environmental Outlook. Without new policies, the world risks irreversibly ...

Sony Gets Green Love From Greenpeace Electronics Survey

Sony Gets Green Love From Greenpeace Electronics Survey
The Sony Vaio TZ11 notebook, the Sony Ericsson T650i mobile phone and the Sony Ericsson P1i PDA come out ...

How To Navigate The Environmental Media - Part 1

How To Navigate The Environmental Media - Part 1
Part One: All Quiet on the Western Front In January, the world saw the launch of the $15bn dollar "zero-carbon, waste-free, ...

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers

3Tier Unveils Global Wind Map For Developers
Forty percent of the world's land mass has wind speeds at more than 6 m per second, according to Seattle-based 3Tier, ...

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding
Venture capitalists invested a record $3 billion in 221 "clean technology" deals worldwide in 2007, a 43 percent increase ...

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics
GE sees its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics as a way to "prove to potential customers and shareholders in ...

Carbon Market Could Jump 56% To $92 Billion In 2008

Carbon Market Could Jump 56% To $92 Billion In 2008
The global carbon market will see 4.2 billion tons carbon emissions transacted during 2008, up 56 percent from last year, according ...

US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations

US Ready To Accept Binding Emissions Obligations
The U.S. is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to James Connaughton and ...

Global Warming Changing Corporate Mindset

Global Warming Changing Corporate Mindset
Climate change is beginning to change the mind-sets, policies and actions of corporate heads, financiers and entrepreneurs as well as leaders of ...

Johnson Controls Wins First Contract Under Clinton Climate Initiative

Johnson Controls Wins First Contract Under Clinton Climate Initiative
Johnson Controls has signed a contract to cut energy use and emissions from the largest shopping mall in ...

Branson Calls For Climate ‘War Room’

Branson Calls For Climate ‘War Room’
At a UN climate meeting, Richard Branson, head of Virgin Group, offered to set up an "environmental war room" ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
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 ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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