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AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies
Environmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO ...

British Gas Launches Green Business, Cuts Energy Use

British Gas Launches Green Business, Cuts Energy Use
British Gas has launched a new business that will offer green, low carbon products and services. The business, British Gas New ...

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program

ConocoPhillips Joins USCAP & Establishes $22 Million Biofuel Research Program
ConocoPhillips  is supporting a mandatory greenhouse gas emissions cap and has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership - a ...

EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory

EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft report that analyzes sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Inventory of U.S. ...

Los Angeles Ports Issues RFP for LNG Trucks

Los Angeles Ports Issues RFP for LNG Trucks
The nation’s two leading containerports, San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, have issued a joint Request for Proposals ...

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Shell Hires Gale Norton

Shell Hires Gale Norton
Former interior secretary for the Bush administration, Gale Norton, has taken up a senior legal post at Shell, The Guardian reports. She is ...

ExxonMobil WOM Campaign Backfires

ExxonMobil WOM Campaign Backfires
ExxonMobil recently launched a word of mouth campaign and tried to court public opinion by reaching out to green writers from blogs like ...

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy

Bush’s Budget Earmarks $24 Billion for Department of Energy
President Bush's $24.3-billion budget for the Department of Energy remains a tiny part of the overall $2.9-trillion budget plan for 2008. the Detroit ...

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions
Less than half of all listed global electric utilities have responded to an investors request for information regarding their emissions of greenhouse ...

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction

Bush’s State of the Union Energy Plan Gets Mixed Reaction
President Bush set a goal of reducing U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next 10 years during last night's ...

GE, DuPont, Alcoa & More Form U.S. Climate Action Partnership

GE, DuPont, Alcoa & More Form U.S. Climate Action Partnership
Ten major companies have formed a group, the United States Climate Action Partnership, which is calling for a firm nationwide limit on ...

Study: Exxon Deliberately Confused Public on Global Warming

Study: Exxon Deliberately Confused Public on Global Warming
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists claims that ExxonMobil used disinformation tactics to cloud the scientific understanding of ...

BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant

BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant
BHEL has bagged another major order from Indian Oil Corporation for setting up an energy efficient co-generation power plant at its ...

Energy Security Leadership Council Meets with Lawmakers, WH Officials

Energy Security Leadership Council Meets with Lawmakers, WH Officials
Executives of shippers, chemical companies and other big users of petroleum products want the new Congress to tighten fuel-efficiency standards and open ...

IPPNY: DEC’s RGGI Pre-Proposal ‘Myopic’

IPPNY: DEC’s RGGI Pre-Proposal ‘Myopic’
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a preliminary draft set of rules to implement the Regional ...

NY Power Plant Burns Biofuel Blend

NY Power Plant Burns Biofuel Blend
The Charles Poletti Power Project in Queens, NY, an 885 megawatt plant that runs on natural gas or heating oil, ran biofuel ...

Post-Election Energy Legislation Predictions

Post-Election Energy Legislation Predictions
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a Washington D.C.-based energy think tank, has put together a list of efficiency-related items ...

Prop 87 or Not, California Remains Hot Alt-Energy Spot

Prop 87 or Not, California Remains Hot Alt-Energy Spot
California voters turned down Proposition 87 on Tuesday, the proposed tax on crude oil which sought to levy a tax of ...

IAE Predicts Global Energy Demand Up 53% by 2030

IAE Predicts Global Energy Demand Up 53% by 2030
The International Energy Agency  has released The World Energy Outlook 2006,  the latest edition of the IEA's annual flagship publication. The ...

Interface & Meridian IQ Win EPA Award for Transportation

Interface & Meridian IQ Win EPA Award for Transportation
Interface, a global manufacturer of carpet and commercial fabrics, and Meridian IQ, a provider of global logistics services, are joint recipients of ...

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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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