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Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World

Biggest Clean-Energy Projects In The World
In a depiction of some of the world's largest energy projects, Forbes.com takes readers to Bahrain, where, a few ...

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel

Vertigro Turns Algae Into Biofuel
CNN has an interesting video on Vertigro. Glen kertz grows algae in bags suspended in a greenhouse. Oil is extracted and turned ...

Kraft, Marks & Spencer Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners

DuPont has announced the winners of the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognized "achievements that improve the ...

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It

Bush Delivers GHG Emissions Goal, Skips How To Reach It
In a Rose Garden speech today, President Bush acknowledged the need to put curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions and set ...

SynapSense CEO On Wireless Sensors And Energy Efficiency

SynapSense CEO On Wireless Sensors And Energy Efficiency
Interview with Peter Vandeventer, CEO of SynapSense, a company developing sensors to help keep data centers on the cool side. ...

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 ...

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters

Raley’s Retrofits Old Diesels With New Exhaust Filters
Raley's, a supermarket chain with stores in California, has retrofitted 16 older trucks with a new exhaust filtration system resulting in ...

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference

Big Business Talks Green At WSJ’s ECO:nomics Conference
The Wall Street Journal held its CEO-level "ECO:nomics - Creating Environmental Capital" conference in California last week. Here are ...

Continental, Boeing, GE To Partner On Biofuel Flight

Continental, Boeing, GE To Partner On Biofuel Flight
Continental Airlines, Boeing and GE Aviation have announced plans to conduct a biofuels demonstration flight in the first half ...

Dell Discusses Design For The PowerEdge M-Series

Dell Discusses Design For The PowerEdge M-Series
Dell goes into a little detail on how it designed the PowerEdge M-Series blade server to be energy efficient....

(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" ...

Ballmer Talks Up Green IT At CeBIT

Ballmer Talks Up Green IT At CeBIT
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the company's Green IT initiatives at CeBIT....

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable

Tackling Climate Change Achievable And Affordable
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its 2008 Environmental Outlook. Without new policies, the world risks irreversibly ...

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding

Clean Tech Deals Grab $3 Billion In 2007 VC Funding
Venture capitalists invested a record $3 billion in 221 "clean technology" deals worldwide in 2007, a 43 percent increase ...

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics

GE Shines Up Global Message For Olympics
GE sees its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics as a way to "prove to potential customers and shareholders in ...

Companies Prepare To Roll Out Green Mobile Networks

Companies Prepare To Roll Out Green Mobile Networks
Cellular base stations in far-off places located beyond the reach of reliable - or any - electricity almost always ...

Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future

Duke’s Carbon-Constrained Future
Duke Energy is the nation's third-largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide - after American Electric Power and Southern Co. ...

Carbon Sciences Wants To Turn CO2 Into Chalk

Carbon Sciences Wants To Turn CO2 Into Chalk
Carbon Sciences says it can efficiently turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk for use in drywall and other products....

Hitachi’s CTO Hu Yoshida On Green Storage

Hitachi’s CTO Hu Yoshida On Green Storage
With storage hardware poised to overtake servers as the power hogs of the data center, Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida discusses ...

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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