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CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas

Exxon Bets $100M On Test To Clean CO2 From Natural Gas
Exxon Mobil Corp. said it is building a commercial demonstration plant near LaBarge, Wyo., to test an improved ...

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism

Shell Pulls Out Of World’s Biggest Wind Farm, Draws Criticism
Two days after Royal Dutch Shell posted a 25 percent increase in first quarter profit to a record $9.1 ...

Primo Water Touts Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic

Primo Water Touts Bottles Made From Plant-Based Plastic
Primo Water's marketing team has put together a promotional video series that is on YouTube. It touts that the bottles are made ...

Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced, Chevron Hits the Ceiling

Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Announced, Chevron Hits the Ceiling
The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients have been named and Chevron isn't happy. The prizes reward grass-roots environmental ...

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax
Transport costs for raw materials are likely to rise due to a new marine fuel tax planned by the ...

Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits

Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits
Royal Dutch Shell says it will stop investing in Europe if utilities are forced to pay for emissions permits ...

Geo-Sequestration Plant Opens In Australia

Geo-Sequestration Plant Opens In Australia
A geo-sequestration plant, capable of capturing and compressing 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide which is stored two kilometers underground, has opened in ...

Activists Mobilize For ‘Fossil Fools Day’

Activists Mobilize For ‘Fossil Fools Day’
Activists are planning over 100 actions around the world tomorrow against what they call "dirty energy industries." The actions are being planned by ...

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 ...

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?

Can Big Oil and Enviros Work Together to Get What They Want?
Why face-to-face may work better than TV ads In the rush for corporations to catch up with consumer interest in all things green, ...

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans

BP Fuzzy On Future Alternative Energy Plans
In his first strategy presentation as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward said the company has received little, if any, uplift ...

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. ...

Airbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel

Airbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel
An Airbus A380 aircraft has successfully completed the world’s first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using a liquid ...

British Gas Reprimanded for Greenwashing

British Gas Reprimanded for Greenwashing
The Advertising Standards Authority said that British Gas broke advertising rules by describing its "greenest" dual fuel ...

HTC Purenergy to Launch New CO2 Capture System

HTC Purenergy to Launch New CO2 Capture System
HTC Purenergy announced that they have launched the world's first modular, pre-engineered CO2 Capture System, called the ...

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site
Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants ...

Environmental Concerns Impacting Fuel Management Decisions

Environmental Concerns Impacting Fuel Management Decisions
Ninety-two percent of fleet executives predict fuel prices will remain high or rise over the next year, according to eyefortransport's ...

GM Wants 10,000 More E85 Retail Locations

GM Wants 10,000 More E85 Retail Locations
Mary Beth Stanek, energy and environment director for GM, said that over the next two or three years, her company will work ...

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP

‘Beyond Petroleum’ Pays Off For BP
For seven years, British Petroleum has invested heavily in its "Beyond Petroleum" campaign which has been praised by business press and awards ...

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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
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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