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Wal-Mart, Microsoft Launch Cleantech Initiatives

Wal-Mart, Microsoft Launch Cleantech Initiatives
Wal-Mart and Microsoft announced new clean technology programs at the Cleantech Forum in Toronto, Cleantech reports. Wal-Mart and the Cleantech Group launched ...

GE To Spend $1 Billion On Ecomagination R&D

GE To Spend $1 Billion On Ecomagination R&D
GE will invest more than $1 billion on cleaner technology research and development for 2007, drawing closer to its pledge to invest ...

HP Data Center Reduces Energy Use 40%

HP Data Center Reduces Energy Use 40%
Hewlett-Packard announced that a new data center in Bangalore, India, has achieved energy savings of up to 40 percent due to ...

Nissan Positions Navigation System As Tool To Fight Global Warming

Nissan Positions Navigation System As Tool To Fight Global Warming
Nissan is pushing car navigation systems as a way to fight global warming, CNET reports. The idea, essentially, is that by ...

BCW Pushes Line Of Biodegradable Plastic Office Products

BCW Pushes Line Of Biodegradable Plastic Office Products
UK Company BCW Office Products is setting up a U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas, to launch a range of biodegradable, plastic ...

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Bush Proposes International Clean Tech Fund

Bush Proposes International Clean Tech Fund
At today's meeting on climate change, President Bush outlined his climate change proposal which includes creating an “international clean technology fund,” to ...

Motorsport Facility Installs Grey-Water Geothermal System

Motorsport Facility Installs Grey-Water Geothermal System
Prairie Hills Motorsport Club, located in Lake Village, Indiana and scheduled to open in the spring of 2009, is using a ...

Billboard Industry Greens Up Ads

Billboard Industry Greens Up Ads
The billboard industry is making moves to become more energy efficient, The Wall Street Journal reports. Some 170,000 billboards, nearly all of ...

Xerox Opens $60 Million Energy Efficient Toner Plant

Xerox Opens $60 Million Energy Efficient Toner Plant
Xerox is filling more than 20 miles of pipe and stainless steel tanks with billions of micron-sized toner particles with the ...

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, ...

Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades

Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades
Office Depot has reached a 10.1% absolute reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and electricity consumed in its North American ...

Logicalis Joins Green Grid

Logicalis Joins Green Grid
Logicalis has joined the Green Grid, a consortium of companies working to advance energy efficiency in data centers and computing ecosystems. “We look ...

Green Grid Lays Out Technology Roadmap

Green Grid Lays Out Technology Roadmap
The Green Grid consortium outlined its 2007 deliverables and technology roadmap, ZDNet reports. But first, the group says it ...

Study: Sales Of Advanced Lighting Products To Reach $4.4 Billion

Study: Sales Of Advanced Lighting Products To Reach $4.4 Billion
U.S. demand for advanced lighting products is forecast to rise nearly 14 percent per year through 2011, reaching $4.4 billion, according ...

Brother: The Paperless Office Is Our Goal

Brother: The Paperless Office Is Our Goal
In an interview with Business Green Blog, Mike Dinsdale, UK communications director for printer giant Brother (he's also responsible for ...

Green IT Still Finding Its Way

Green IT Still Finding Its Way
In the absence of a mature green IT market, users are cobbling together green strategies that are saving them money without negatively impacting ...

Macy’s Saves With Osram’s Electrodeless Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Macy’s Saves With Osram’s Electrodeless Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Osram Sylvania's chief executive Charlie Jerabek said that the company's electrodeless compact fluorescent lasts for about 15,000 hours and cost about $25 to ...

Wal-Mart Improves Fleet Fuel Efficiency 15%

Wal-Mart Improves Fleet Fuel Efficiency 15%
Wal-Mart’s fleet of about 7,200 semitractor-trailer trucks is already about 15 percent more fuel efficient than it was when the company announced ...

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 ...

Mac-Gray Cuts Fuel & Emissions With Route Management Application

Mac-Gray Cuts Fuel & Emissions With Route Management Application
For the past year, Mac-Gray, a provider of laundry facilities management services, has equipped its fleet of 100 machine coin collectors with ...

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Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Green was an obvious color to hang the environmental renaissance on. It was a reclaiming of the old pejorative “greenies” and “treehuggers.” ... continue »

An Eco-Stimulus Package for Our Economy
Sustainability – Businesses’ Best Defense Against Recession
California’s Leadership in 21st Century Energy Technology
Moving Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral’ to ‘Carbon Healthy’
92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Ninety-two percent of respondents to The Global Facility Management Association's recently released Green Practices Study (PDF) say that they are ...

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Green Building Could Hit $140 Billion By 2013
ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent
Consumers Loyal To Brands That Support Good Cause During Recession
‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Sit in on the Green Car of the Year Award presented at the 2008 LA Auto Show (via AutoNetwork)....

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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability
California Clean Tech Open Awards
How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

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Marketing

Sustainability is Not a Color - Sustainability is Transparent.

Greenbuild Conference News Roundup

Green Consumers Have Different Purchasing Motives

Emissions

‘Green Car Of the Year’ Unveiled

Owens Ups Recycled Content in Fiberglass Insulation, Cuts Energy Use, CO2

Wal-Mart To Buy 226 M kWh Wind Energy To Help Power 350+ Stores

Hi-Tech

ICT Could Cut U.S. Emissions By 13-22 Percent

California Clean Tech Open Awards

Dell: OptiPlex Desktop Customers Cut 29 M Tons of CO2 Since 2005

Efficiency

92% Of Organizations Working To Make Facilities More Sustainable

Xerox Says New Toner Cuts Digital Printing Devices’ Power 15-30%

Big Brands Form Climate Change Business Coalition

Manufacturing

Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Discusses Corporate Sustainability

Mitsubishi Targets Sales Of $13.3 B From Cleantech Products

Jeffrey Immelt Discusses GE’s CSR Efforts

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Hyundai Unveils Carbon Offset Program For Genesis Sedans

Best Buy Pushes Renewable Energy Credits

New Carbon Standard Set for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

CSR Reports

Want To Win Awards? Write Longer Corporate Responsibility Reports

U.S. Army Releases First Sustainability Report - Big Move To LEED Standards

HK Companies Top CSR Disclosure Among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Major Players

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

How ICT Can Reduce Carbon Footprints And Enable Sustainable Growth

UPS Moves To Paperless Sorting Labels

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