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Consumers Tap Whole Foods, Burt’s Bees, Trader Joe’s As Top Green Brands

Consumers Tap Whole Foods, Burt’s Bees, Trader Joe’s As Top Green Brands
A survey, conducted in the US and the UK, indicates the environment has taken a back seat to the economy for ...

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance
BT has announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020 and published a "Climate Stabilization ...

More Companies Give Employees Energy-Saving Incentives

More Companies Give Employees Energy-Saving Incentives
An increasing number of companies are offering their employees incentives for saving energy, like gas cards and telecommuting options, ...

Package Printers, Manufacturers Discuss Sustainability Efforts

Package Printers, Manufacturers Discuss Sustainability Efforts
Kevin Rabinovitch, director of sustainability for Mars North America, warns CPGs and converters to look beyond the direct impacts ...

UNH To Get 85% Of Energy From Landfill Methane

UNH To Get 85% Of Energy From Landfill Methane
Tom Kelly, Chief Sustainability Officer at the University of New Hampshire, says that a landfill methane project will provide 85 percent of ...

Climate Bill Would Get Veto From Bush

Climate Bill Would Get Veto From Bush
If the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill, being debated this week in the Senate, passes Congress in its current ...

Carbon Footprints Of Top 100 Metro Areas Researched By Brookings

Carbon Footprints Of Top 100 Metro Areas Researched By Brookings
Large metro areas offer greater energy and carbon efficiency than nonmetropolitan areas, and metro areas have development patterns that show promise for ...

GE Reports On Progress Of Ecomagination, Sets New Goals

GE Reports On Progress Of Ecomagination, Sets New Goals
GE has announced the expansion of its "ecomagination" strategy, committing to reduce its global water use by 20 ...

G8 Pledges ‘Strong Will’ For 50% Emissions Cuts By 2050, Sets No Mid-Term Goals

G8 Pledges ‘Strong Will’ For 50% Emissions Cuts By 2050, Sets No Mid-Term Goals
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight nations, pledged "strong political will" toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half ...

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 ...

S.F. Bay Area Passes Carbon Tax

S.F. Bay Area Passes Carbon Tax
The San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors voted overwhelmingly (15-1) to charge area companies ...

IBM Releases Slew Of Efficiency, Carbon Management Tools

IBM Releases Slew Of Efficiency, Carbon Management Tools
IBM has launched the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler, a tool that that the company says analyzes and manages the climate impact of ...

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 ...

P&G VP Of Sustainability Discusses Green Initiatives

P&G VP Of Sustainability Discusses Green Initiatives
Procter & Gamble's sustainability initiatives include plans to cut its carbon footprint by as much as 40 percent by ...

Rackspace Uses Biomass To Run Data Center

Rackspace Uses Biomass To Run Data Center
IT hosting company Rackspace has announced it has completed the conversion of a former warehouse into its new ...

EPA Releases ‘2008 Report On The Environment’

EPA Releases ‘2008 Report On The Environment’
The EPA has released its 2008 Report on the Environment, which the agency says uses scientific indicators to measure and report ...

Office Depot First Retailer To Pre-Certify Store Prototypes With USGBC

Office Depot First Retailer To Pre-Certify Store Prototypes With USGBC
Office Depot is the first company to achieve volume pre-certification under the pilot LEED Portfolio Program for its store ...

Green Labels Positively Impact Purchase Behavior

Green Labels Positively Impact Purchase Behavior
Certain labels and certifications that garner higher awareness and understanding, in part driven by their longevity in the marketplace, are the most ...

EDF Reports On Sustainable Innovations

EDF Reports On Sustainable Innovations
Environmental Defense Fund has released "Innovations Review 2008: Making Green the New Business as Usual," a report highlighting the latest trends ...

Google Earth Releases Animated Global Warming Map

Google Earth Releases Animated Global Warming Map
Google's Climate Change in Our World has created an animated map of the earth from space that illustrates ...

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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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