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Infinity Property & Casualty Joins PHH GreenFleet

Infinity Property & Casualty Joins PHH GreenFleet
Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation has joined the PHH GreenFleet program. This year, Infinity replaced the approximately 400 sport utility vehicles ...

Standard Renewable Energy Certificate Purchase and Sale Contract Released

Standard Renewable Energy Certificate Purchase and Sale Contract Released
The American Council On Renewable Energy has released a standard form contract for national trading of Renewable Energy Certificates. The contract is ...

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy
President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit ...

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions
Less than half of all listed global electric utilities have responded to an investors request for information regarding their emissions of greenhouse ...

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction
President Bush set a goal of reducing U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next 10 years during last night's ...

Ford Plans Escape Hybrid E85 Demos, Unveils Edge with HySeries Drive

Ford Plans Escape Hybrid E85 Demos, Unveils Edge with HySeries Drive
Ford is producing 20 demonstration Escape Hybrid E85 vehicles for use in fleets in six different states. Deliveries will begin this ...

Ecotality Signs Airboss to Work on Hydratus

Ecotality Signs Airboss to Work on Hydratus
Ecotality has engaged Airboss Aerospace to act as consulting engineers on its Hydratus bus. Airboss will work in conjunction ...

FTA Gives Consortium $9 Million for Hydrogen-Fueled Buses

FTA Gives Consortium $9 Million for Hydrogen-Fueled Buses
A business consortium including New Flyer Industries, ISE Corporation and SunLine Transit announced (via Fuel Cell Works) that ...

Nissan Unveils Environmental Action Plan

Nissan Unveils Environmental Action Plan
Nissan has unveiled a new environmental action plan dubbed Nissan Green Program 2010. The program includes: Incorporating CO2 reduction as one of the ...

New Database Tracks U.S. Fuel Cell Activity

New Database Tracks U.S. Fuel Cell Activity
Fuel Cells 2000 and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program have launched a new searchable database that documents fuel ...

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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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