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Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green
A green building study by the Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment and investment management group Calvert Group found ...

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions
The American Trucking Associations has launched the first-ever industry-wide environmental sustainability program under the banner Trucks Deliver a ...

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing
IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and Herman Miller have found a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing, purchasing.com reports. IBM takes ...

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent

Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent
The Billerica, Mass.-based life-sciences equipment maker Millipore said it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over ...

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 ...

Grocery Chains Get Green Grades

Grocery Chains Get Green Grades
Corporate Knights Magazine has unveiled a Green Grocer Report Card (PDF) -- the ranking looks at the ...

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’

Merrill Lynch Launches Client-Based ‘Climate Change Solution’
Merrill Lynch has launched "Green & Gold," what it describes as "a full-service climate change solution with a strong focus on ...

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 ...

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint

Discover Magazine Maps Carbon Footprint
The entire lifecycle of every copy of Discover Magazine produced costs 2.1 pounds in Co2 emissions, the magazine ...

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America

Vancity First Carbon Neutral Bank In North America
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union says it's the first North American-based financial institution to be carbon neutral, two years ahead of schedule. Over ...

P&G, Domtar Commit To Sustainable Forest Products

P&G, Domtar Commit To Sustainable Forest Products
Procter & Gamble and Domtar Corporation have joined the North America Forest & Trade Network. NAFTN is the ...

Carbon Tariffs Could Bring Manufacturers Back From Asia

Carbon Tariffs Could Bring Manufacturers Back From Asia
Imposing carbon tariffs on China could drive some manufacturers back to North America, according to a new CIBC Coming ...

Report Says Green Building Best Way To Cut GHG Emissions

Report Says Green Building Best Way To Cut GHG Emissions
Promoting the green design, construction, renovation and operation of buildings could cut North American greenhouse gas emissions that are ...

Drive-Thrus Could Face Difficult Future

Drive-Thrus Could Face Difficult Future
A number of Canadian cities are looking at banning, regulating, or studying the environmental impacts of drive-thru restaurants, EcoSpace ...

ClimateCheck Sets Up Shop In U.S.

ClimateCheck Sets Up Shop In U.S.
Canada-based ClimateCHECK, a company that provides greenhouse gas management and products has opened a San Francisco office. ClimateCHECK says it has worked ...

Newer Hybrid Buses Cheaper To Operate

Newer Hybrid Buses Cheaper To Operate
A new U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Lab report says New York City’s newer hybrid buses cost 40 ...

HP Recycles 250 Million Pounds in 2007

HP Recycles 250 Million Pounds in 2007
HP announced it has recycled nearly 250 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges in 2007, a 50 ...

Shipping Major Emissions Problem

Shipping Major Emissions Problem
A new study by Energy Futures finds that U.S. ports are a major source of pollution and ...

Carbon Disclosure Project Asks 3000 Companies for Eco-Info

Carbon Disclosure Project Asks 3000 Companies for Eco-Info
For 2008, The Carbon Disclosure Project has issued a request to over 3,000 of the world's largest corporations ...

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
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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