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Green Movement Turns ‘Mainstream’ For Corporate America

Green Movement Turns ‘Mainstream’ For Corporate America
Corporate America's embrace of the green movement is no longer just for free-spirited maverick companies. Mainstream giants in markets spanning consumer products, ...

Roche Adds More Hybrids to Sales Fleet

Roche Adds More Hybrids to Sales Fleet
Roche has increased the number of hybrid vehicles in its pharmaceutical sales fleet to a total of 242 vehicles as of the end ...

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green Topics

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green Topics
Discovery Channel is launching the first-ever 24-hour TV network dedicated solely to green lifestyle programming. The initiative, launching next year, includes a ...

Corporate America’s Love Affair with Green Power More Than PR Fluff

Corporate America’s Love Affair with Green Power More Than PR Fluff
A recent CNNMoney.com article asks, how much of recent corporate renewable energy annoucements are PR fluff? "It's 98 percent real and 2 ...

EPA’s Performance Track Adds 55 New Facilities

EPA’s Performance Track Adds 55 New Facilities
From leading food and beverage companies to a major automobile manufacturer, 55 new facilities have joined the National Environmental Performance ...

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. ...

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan
A group of companies and organizations from around the world, including Allianz, Bayer, Citigroup, DuPont, General Electric, and Volvo have endorsed a ...

Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power List

Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power List
For the first time, a corporation ­ leads EPA's national Top 25 list of green power purchasers. Wells Fargo & Company claimed ...

Abbott Joins GreenFleet

Abbott Joins GreenFleet
Abbott is the first company to sign on (via Greenbiz) to the GreenFleet program which was developed jointly ...

Boulder’s Municipal Carbon Tax Passes

Boulder’s Municipal Carbon Tax Passes
Ultra-liberal Boulder, Colorado has passed the country’s first municipal carbon tax, MSNBC reports. The Boulder tax will raise average home bills ...

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Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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