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California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles

California Cuts Quotas For Zero-Emission Vehicles
The California Air Resources Board has voted to lower the number of battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell ...

Oscars Green Choices Reach Red Carpet

Oscars Green Choices Reach Red Carpet
Driving a Prius hybrid has become the standard way for Hollywood stars to flaunt their environmental credentials, but General Motors says more ...

Does GM Live Up To The Green Claims Of Its Super Bowl Ads?

Does GM Live Up To The Green Claims Of Its Super Bowl Ads?
Has GM really become the green car company its Super Bowl ads claimed? That's the question Rick Newman ...

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow

Shoppers Pass On Diesel, Hybrid Acceptance Continues to Grow
The vast majority of in-market new-vehicle shoppers do not see diesel as a likely mainstream fuel source in the future, according to ...

Closeup On Honda Clarity

Closeup On Honda Clarity
Steve Ellis, marketing manager for Honda's fuel cell program, talks with Green Fuels Forecast about the retail launch of the Clarity....

Xynergy Opening Hydrogen-Powered Restaurant in Boulder

Xynergy Opening Hydrogen-Powered Restaurant in Boulder
Xynergy has announced that it plans to open its flagship hydrogen-powered restaurant this summer in Boulder, CO.  The company said that ...

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP
For seven years, British Petroleum has invested heavily in its "Beyond Petroleum" campaign which has been praised by business press and awards ...

Toyota Faces Hybrid Challengers

Toyota Faces Hybrid Challengers
Honda chief Takeo Fukui says the company will battle Toyota for eco-supremacy in the years ahead, Business Week reports. That's not ...

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 ...

Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030

Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030
Morgan Stanley estimates that global sales from clean energy sources like like wind, solar and geothermal could reach $1 trillion a year ...

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, ...

Fujitsu Powers Sunnyvale Campus With Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Fujitsu Powers Sunnyvale Campus With Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Fujitsu America has announced that it is using a hydrogen fuel cell on its Sunnyvale campus. It will provide 50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius

GM Sees Volt As iPod-Like Product To Take Down Prius
By 2005, GM's top executives were convinced it could get sales moving again by turning around its reputation on ...

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 ...

Recent RFPs

Recent RFPs
April 2007 (via CEEP)  Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate U.S. & China Clean Water and Clean Energy  ...

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 ...

Today's News

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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