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Stimulus Funds Boost Trane’s Energy-Efficiency Business

Stimulus Funds Boost Trane’s Energy-Efficiency Business
Aimed at lowering the amount of energy needed to power the blowers and ...

Siemens Expects $8B In Green Tech Contracts from Stimulus

Siemens Expects $8B In Green Tech Contracts from Stimulus
Siemens AG expects to win new orders of around $21 billion in ...

Pew Center Launches Online Climate TechBook

Pew Center Launches Online Climate TechBook
The Pew Center has released an online resource -- called the ...

Cap-and-Trade Financial Risk Small For Most, Disaster for Some

Cap-and-Trade Financial Risk Small For Most, Disaster for Some
The financial risk to companies in the S&P 500 would vary greatly under ...

Steel Industry Faces Carbon Hurdle

Steel Industry Faces Carbon Hurdle
The U.S. steel industry in general, and U.S. Steel Corp., AK Steel, ArcelorMittal ...

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Recession Drives Down U.S. CO2 Emissions 2.8%

Recession Drives Down U.S. CO2 Emissions 2.8%
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. declined by 2.8 percent in 2008, ...

Diamond Delivers Greener Packaging

Diamond Delivers Greener Packaging
Diamond Packaging is using recyclable and renewable source materials and wind power to ...

Heavy Industries Not Likely to Bolt Over Cap and Trade

Heavy Industries Not Likely to Bolt Over Cap and Trade
Heavy industries likely will not pull up shop and head overseas if the ...

PPG’s Carbon Emissions Fall, Ozone-depleting Emissions Rise

PPG’s Carbon Emissions Fall, Ozone-depleting Emissions Rise
PPG, a global supplier of paints, coatings, chemicals, optical products, specialty materials, ...

Invista Settles With EPA, Violation Fixes Will Cost $500M

Invista Settles With EPA, Violation Fixes Will Cost $500M
After self-reporting environmental violations at 12 facilities in seven states, Invista will spend ...

EPA May Classify Carbon Dioxide as a Pollutant

EPA May Classify Carbon Dioxide as a Pollutant
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant ...

When Scaling Back Production, Energy Cost Per Unit Spirals Upward Without Careful Planning

When Scaling Back Production, Energy Cost Per Unit Spirals Upward Without Careful Planning
Without reducing fixed energy cost, a company that scales back manufacturing and other ...

Alcoa Ahead of Schedule on Reducing Emissions

Alcoa Ahead of Schedule on Reducing Emissions
Alcoa, the world's leading producer of aluminum, continues to reduce the greenhouse gas ...

Foreign Pressure Driving China’s “Green Ink” Industry

Foreign Pressure Driving China’s “Green Ink” Industry
Market pressure and foreign regulations are driving China toward more eco-friendly printing practices, ...

Pitney Bowes Reclaims 1 Million+ Pounds of Equipment in 2008

Pitney Bowes Reclaims 1 Million+ Pounds of Equipment in 2008
Pitney Bowes says it has recovered nearly 1.1 million pounds of ...

Chemical Industry Focuses on Energy Efficiency

Chemical Industry Focuses on Energy Efficiency
Even with a growing recession, the chemical industry is continuing to focus on energy management and efficiency, ...

UL Offers Environmental Claims Verification Service

UL Offers Environmental Claims Verification Service
Underwriters Laboratories, well known for testing product safety, has launched a new unit, UL Environment Inc to verify ...

Absolute Steel Refocuses Marketing Efforts on Green Products

Absolute Steel Refocuses Marketing Efforts on Green Products
Absolute Steel, a government contractor of steel building materials, has redesigned their marketing campaign in an ...

Green Business 2008 - Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

Green Business 2008 - Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories
With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular ...

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals
The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College released new Pacific Sustainability Index scores on the environmental ...
Consumers Prefer ‘100% Natural’ Label Over ‘Organic’

Consumers Prefer ‘100% Natural’ Label Over ‘Organic’

In a study of consumer opinions of marketing claims, survey respondents identified most ...

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WWF Ranks US 7th Among G8 on Climate Scorecard
Growth of Global Carbon Emissions Cut in Half
Electricity, Heat, Transportation Cause 60% of Emissions

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Carbon Management IS Information Management

Carbon Management IS Information Management

For most organizations today, sophisticated carbon management is simply not possible. At best, ... continue »

The Hope Behind The Holes In The Climate Bill
Energy Costs Rising, Regulations Imminent - Are You Ready?
Energy - It Just Doesn’t Add Up
FTC on Greenwashing: Is That All There Is?
Shaklee Discusses its Green Strategies

Shaklee Discusses its Green Strategies

Shaklee Corp. was recognized recently ...

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Sprint Tackles Data Center Improvements
Building a Bridge from Recycled Plastics
The Netherlands Ponders Floating City Architecture
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Marketing

Consumers Prefer ‘100% Natural’ Label Over ‘Organic’

Green Seal Adds First U.S. Standard for Personal Care Products

Show Sustainability Sales Success to Climb Corporate Ranks

Emissions

Cisco Wants to Transform Energy Demand and Use with Smart Buildings

Sony Europe Goes to 100% Renewable Energy

EPA Approves California Emissions Waiver

Hi-Tech

Sony Ericsson Joins Nokia, Samsung as ‘Greener’ Electronics Makers

Online Calculator Gauges IT Data Center Costs and Carbon Footprint

Microsoft Reduces Windows 7 Packaging

Efficiency

Black & Veatch HQ to Showcase Sustainability

Raytheon Meets Green Goals with IT Help

Yahoo! Dropping Carbon Offsets for Greener Data Centers

Manufacturing

Electronics Firms Face Off Against Mandated Recycling Programs

Leading Mobile Phone Makers Agree to Develop Universal Charger

Panasonic Cuts Manufacturing Emissions With Simulation Tech

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Sustainable Agriculture Requires Farm Modernization, Free Markets, Tech Adoption

Audi Promotes Clean Diesel via Facebook, Carbon Offsets

CBO: Cap-And-Trade to Cost $175 Per Household

CSR Reports

SAB Miller Targets 25% Reduction in Water Used in Brewing

Molson Coors Cuts CO2 Emissions by 12%

Successful Design in CSR Reporting, Part 2

Major Players

Fuel Cell Systems to Power 30% of Coca-Cola NY Facility

Australia Joins Carbon Reduction Label Scheme

CSX to Cut CO2 Emissions by 8%

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