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Prediction: $1 Trillion U.S. Carbon Market By 2020

Prediction: $1 Trillion U.S. Carbon Market By 2020
The U.S. will be home to a $1 trillion carbon emission market by 2020 if federal and state policymakers continue on their ...

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 ...

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry
EU officials have acknowledged that a new plan to tighten greenhouse gas admissions will take a toll on the competiveness of some ...

Global Warming - Who Might Get Sued

Global Warming - Who Might Get Sued
A number of companies are leaving themselves vulnerable to shareholder lawsuits regarding their carbon emissions, but a CNNMoney article claims the ...

Citigroup Says Energy Bill Will Raise Ethanol Prices

Citigroup Says Energy Bill Will Raise Ethanol Prices
Citigroup has released a report that claims the energy bill passed early in December by Congress will raise ethanol ...

Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products

Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products
Most natural-product consumers indicated they would pay more for environmentally friendly products, with seven in 10 consumers willing to pay up to ...

New Plant Could Make Cereplast Leading Player In Bioplastics

New Plant Could Make Cereplast Leading Player In Bioplastics
Cereplast recently announced plans for a new facility in in Seymour, Indiana that will add 500 million pounds a year to ...

Half Of U.S. Adults Will Make Green New Year’s Resolution

Half Of U.S. Adults Will Make Green New Year’s Resolution
Forty-nine percent of all American adults say they will make a green New Year's resolution this year, according to ...

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

Consumers Shop Green For Holidays (Updated)

Consumers Shop Green For Holidays (Updated)
Experts and research companies including Pricegrabber.com, Cone, and Deloitte are predicting that green holiday shopping will be hot this year. PriceGrabber.com Survey: PriceGrabber.com says ...

Whirlpool Increases Emissions Reduction Target

Whirlpool Increases Emissions Reduction Target
Whirlpool Corporation says it will reduce total greenhouse gas emissions 6.6 percent by 2012. The company predicts it will make these ...

Oil Prices Shake Consumer Confidence

Oil Prices Shake Consumer Confidence
U.S. consumer confidence reached its lowest level in more than two years amid concerns over record-high oil prices, continued trouble in ...

Fujitsu Siemens Says Entire Product Line Will Be Energy-Efficient

Fujitsu Siemens Says Entire Product Line Will Be Energy-Efficient
Speaking at its VisitIT forum in Berlin, Bernd Bischoff, CEO of Fujitsu Siemens Computers, said that the company's entire product line would ...

Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030

Morgan Stanley: Clean Energy Sales Could Hit $1 Trillion By 2030
Morgan Stanley estimates that global sales from clean energy sources like like wind, solar and geothermal could reach $1 trillion a year ...

Apparel Manufacturers Eye Carbon Labels

Apparel Manufacturers Eye Carbon Labels
Because clothing is responsible for approximately one ton of each individual's CO2 emissions (including washing and drying), we're likely to see more ...

47% Of Gen Y Would Pay More For Green Brands

47% Of Gen Y Would Pay More For Green Brands
Gen Y is split down the middle on the influence a retailer’s environmental policy and sustainability had on their shopping habits with ...

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, ...

Waste Reduction Leading Environmental Concern For Manufacturers

Waste Reduction Leading Environmental Concern For Manufacturers
Waste reduction is the most important environmental issue facing manufacturing businesses today, according to an international study on sustainability and environmental trends ...

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 ...

Only Small Number of Fortune 500 Embrace Sustainability

Only Small Number of Fortune 500 Embrace Sustainability
There is no green business bubble, according to a CNN/Money article by Joel Makower. "Once companies wring out the resource waste, ...

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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

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

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

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

JohnsonDiversey Saves Customers Over 1B Gallons Of Water In 2007

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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