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

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel
Enel SpA, Italy's largest power company and the biggest single buyer of carbon credits in China, signed a deal ...

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines

Large Emitters In Alberta Cut Emissions Instead Of Paying Fines
The Canadian province of Alberta received $25 million less from carbon-emissions fines in the past eight months than it ...

Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts

Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts
Not too long ago, Norway announced that it would be carbon neutral by 2030. Now, it's becoming apparent that ...

Involving Stakeholders in Measuring Sustainability Performance

Involving Stakeholders in Measuring Sustainability Performance
In the remote fjords of east Iceland, a  partnership between Alcoa, its electrical supplier Landsvirkjun, and various stakeholder groups helped ensure a ...

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up

Battle Over Smog Rules Ramps Up
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), plans to hold a ...

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%
BASF has published its Report 2007, which for the first time combines the company's financial and sustainability reporting ...

ArcelorMittal Tells EU Court That Emissions Rules Aren’t Fair

ArcelorMittal Tells EU Court That Emissions Rules Aren’t Fair
Lawyers for steel giant ArcelorMittal have told Europe's highest court that there's no justification for EU lawmakers to ...

(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" ...

DuPont Titanium Cuts Energy Use, Saves $100 Million

DuPont Titanium Cuts Energy Use, Saves $100 Million
DuPont Titanium Technologies says it has cut its energy consumption per pound of product by nearly 30 percent ...

Cement Plant To Cut Mercury Emissions 75%

Cement Plant To Cut Mercury Emissions 75%
Ash Grove Cement near Baker City in Oregon, the largest source of mercury pollution in the state, has ...

NewPage Sweats Out Global Warming Bill

NewPage Sweats Out Global Warming Bill
The Global Warming Solutions Act being considered in Maryland would require businesses across the state to cut their average ...

Aluminum Industry Struggles To Meet Emissions Targets

Aluminum Industry Struggles To Meet Emissions Targets
The aluminum industry is struggling to meet its own voluntary targets to cut direct greenhouse gas emissions from its ...

West Virginia Alloys Will Recycle Energy To Power Silicon Plant

West Virginia Alloys Will Recycle Energy To Power Silicon Plant
West Virginia Alloys, a subsidiary of Globe Metallurgical, the country's largest silicon producer, has contracted Recycled Energy Development to ...

California Considers Emissions Tax

California Considers Emissions Tax
In what could be a U.S. first, California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District is proposing to charge ...

Pilot Pen Launches Green Line

Pilot Pen Launches Green Line
Pilot Pen Corporation has unveiled a line of earth-friendly writing instruments dubbed BeGreen. Pilot says that the products, which ...

Wal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard

Wal-Mart Rolls Out Packaging Scorecard
Wal-Mart's packaging scorecard, that rates suppliers on their sustainability, has gone live. The idea was unveiled at ...

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable
Last week, during the annual three-day Winter Market at the San Francisco Design Center, the emphasis was not only ...

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting
Cree Inc. announced that the City of Austin joined the LED City program to deploy and promote ...

Mitsubishi CEO Takes On Role Of Chief Sustainability Officer

Mitsubishi CEO Takes On Role Of Chief Sustainability Officer
Mitsubishi has announced that President and CEO, Ryoichi Ueda, has also been appointed as Chief Sustainability Officer for the company's North ...

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry
EU officials have acknowledged that a new plan to tighten greenhouse gas admissions will take a toll on the competiveness of some ...

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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
Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips

The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

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U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

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Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

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

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

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

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

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

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

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